Georg Ell

Mr Ell was the Chief Executive Officer of the Smoothwall business in the UK from May 2018 until its acquisition by Qoria in August 2021. He stepped down from the CEO role and became a Non-Executive Director of Qoria Limited in January 2022. During his time as Chief Executive Officer of Smoothwall, he focused on growth through developing a strong culture, innovating with new product lines, a transition to a SaaS business model, a high degree of customer orientation, implementation of customer success principles and M&A. He was also the general manager of EMEA for the enterprise social networking service Yammer which was acquired by Microsoft. Mr Ell started his career at Microsoft where he was the first quota-carrying salesperson for Microsoft's enterprise cloud business in Europe.