OUR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT TEAM

George set his financial services career in motion in 1982 in the Lancaster Dean Witter Reynolds office where he attained the level of Senior Vice President of Investments. In 1994 he opened the Lancaster office of Hazlett, Burt & Watson, Inc. and presently holds the position of Senior Executive Vice President. George is a member of the board of directors of Hazlett, Burt and Watson Inc., sister company Security National Trust Company (a single purpose, nationally chartered bank providing trust and investment management services) and is the Chairman of the Board of the holding company for these two businesses, HB&W Inc. Additionally, George is chair of the Investment Committee which has oversight for Hazlett, Burt & Watson’s equity Mutual Fund Model Portfolio. George spends most of his day providing investment counsel and managing portfolios under the Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) division of Hazlett Burt and Watson Inc. called Security Capital Management.

George obtained a BS Degree in Agriculture - Resource Management and graduated Magna Cum Laude from West Virginia University in 1979. In addition, George holds current FINRA Licenses Series 7, 9, 10, 63, 65, and PA Fixed Life/Variable Life/Annuities and has completed a Senior Account Executive program at the Wharton Business School.

George has been active with a number of nonprofit organizations in the Lancaster community including board of director positions with the Sertoma Club of Lancaster, St. Leo the Great School, and served a total of 13 years on the Board of Trustees at the YWCA of Lancaster finally serving as Chairman his last two years. He was honored with the Citizen of the Century Award in 2007. In addition, he has served on the Endowment Fund Committees for the YWCA of Lancaster, PA Dutch Council Boy Scouts of America, the Lancaster County Conservancy and the Fulton Theatre. In 2015, he was appointed to the West Virginia University Foundation Board of Directors whose mission is oversite of approximately $1.7 billion in permanent endowment and operating assets as well as new fund raising initiatives.