George Dadd

Dr. George Daddis, Ph.D., is CEO and President of WorldGate Communications, Inc. He is an experienced CEO and entrepreneur, with extensive experience in bringing digital products and services to market, establishing sales channels and raising capital. In 1998 Dr. Daddis founded his first company, InSciTek Microsystems, Inc., which provided digital hardware and software design services to Fortune 500 companies, such as Sharp Electronics, GE, Kodak and many other technology companies worldwide. In 2003 Allworx Corp was founded from the core of InSciTek and quickly established itself as a national provider of small business VoIP telephone systems. Allworx was a comprehensive technology firm and included R&D, manufacturing, marketing/sales and customer support functions. Dr. Daddis aggressively grew this VC-backed business to over 75,000 end users, with a sales channel of more than 900 dealers throughout North America. The company was ultimately successfully sold to PAETEC, a major national telephone services company headquartered in Rochester, N.Y. Dr. Daddis began his engineering and management career at Eastman Kodak and subsequently Xerox, building engineering teams for various imaging product lines. These teams focused on quick time-to-market deliveries and best-in-class performance and cost digital product platforms. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in the fields of engineering and mathematics.