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Ian
was a founding director of Melbourne integrated property company CGA
Bryson where he was responsible for finance and construction. The CGA
Bryson Group specialised in funds management and commercial development
which at its peak had 5 divisions, 50+ staff and $250 million in
projects in a spread of private equity, Joint Ventures and Funds
Management.
In
his construction business, Ian forged a new collaborative approach to
working with staff, contractors and consultants which was later
identified as also occurring in Europe and America by Frederic Laloux in
his bestselling book ‘Reinventing Organisations’, suggesting a ‘global
zeitgeist’, a new mood to ‘human’ approaches in business.
Until
recently, Ian was a director of Bryson Funds Management Ltd which was
relaunched as SupraCapital Ltd, a real estate debt and equity manager,
providing Ian an opportunity to focus on his core interest as a director
of Collaborative Enquiry Pty Ltd.
A
patron of the arts, Ian George has a particular interest in
contemporary Australian and International art and has supported numerous
artists and art exhibitions.
He
was responsible for bringing the exhibition 'Joseph Beuys & Rudolf
Steiner Imagination, Inspiration, intuition' to the National Gallery of
Victoria in 2007. Ian is interested in practical approaches to Beuys’
Social Sculpture and how these can create impulses in society to
transform it, in freedom, in an open and humane way.
Since
2009 Ian has been working with RMIT University on a project titled
“Every Human Being is an Artist: The Art of Changing One's Mindset”; an
exploration into Social Sculpture.
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