{"id":13832,"date":"2008-03-17T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13832"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T18:49:25","slug":"george-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/17\/george-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Former high-tech executive, now boat service chief, joins Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 135px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/TrusteeCole72.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"153\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<p>George W. Cole, formerly a top executive in the field of interactive voice technology and now head of a boat service supporting a Maine island community, has joined the Bates College Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>Cole, of Brookhaven, N.Y., was elected to the board in February, college President Elaine Tuttle Hansen announced.<\/p>\n<p>Cole worked at Bohemia, N.Y.-based Periphonics, a maker and vendor of interactive voice response systems, from 1975 until 2000. During that time, the firm grew from a 30-employee startup to a worldwide operation with sales of $150 million.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Starting out as a senior systems analyst and manager of software development, Cole rose through the ranks to serve in a variety of vice-presidential positions, including oversight of research and development, sales, marketing and the company&#8217;s entry into the telecommunications carrier market. Periphonics was purchased by Nortel Networks in 1999, and Cole retired from Nortel in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2002, he has served as president and general manager of Isle au Haut Boat Services, a nonprofit corporation that operates year-round passenger, mail and freight service to that Down East island community. Cole is also a member of the board of trustees of the Island Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Cole holds an A.B. in physics and a doctorate in nuclear physics, both from Yale University. He was employed from 1970 to 1975 at Brookhaven National Laboratories, where he conducted research in neutron physics.<\/p>\n<p>Cole and his wife, Patricia, live in Brookhaven half the year and spend the other half on Isle au Haut. They have two grown children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George W. Cole, formerly a top executive in the field of interactive voice technology and now head of a boat service supporting a Maine island community, has joined the Bates College Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8840,10840],"class_list":["post-13832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-bates-board-of-trustees","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13832\/revisions\/93079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}