Mr. Overstreet is Associate Dean for Research and Center Development, Walker Professor of Growth Enterprises, and Professor Finance at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Growth Enterprises. He has taught the following courses: Corporate Financial Management, Strategic Value Creation, Valuation of High Tech Firms, Valuation of Private Firms: Measurement and Management; and Real Estate Investment and Finance. He earned his BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Texas at Austin with a MA and PhD (1976) from the University of Alabama. In addition, George was a Huebner Post-Doctoral Fellow (1978) at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance.
He has served as the Academic Director of the Consumer Banker’s Association (CBA’s) Graduate School of Bank Management and has taught at the American Banker Association’s Stonier Graduate School of Bank Management, the Banking School of the South, Citicorp’s Management Associate Development Program, and the SRCUS Graduate School of Credit Union Management. Mr. Overstreet has developed and taught strategic financial planning seminars to over 1000 petroleum distributors through the PMAA, SIGMA, PMEF, and major oil companies including Exxon, Chevron, Mobil, Texaco, Marathon, Union Oil, British Petroleum and American Petrofina. He was presented an award for Managing Change by the CBA’s Graduate School of Bank Management and was voted its Most Inspirational Teacher. At the University of Virginia, both the Z and Seven Societies have honored him for teaching excellence.
He consulting practice over the past 25 years has focused on value related issues of privately held firms (primarily oil distributors and real estate related firms). He has served as an expert witness for financial related issues in numerous court cases including a U.S. Supreme Court case. He has also served on the boards of several real estate related firms. He was intimately involved in the negotiated sale of one of these – the RF&P, a real estate development firm. Its conversion to a private real estate investment trust, strategic acquisitions and timely sale created over $250 million in value for the firm’s shareholders, the Virginia Retirement System. He currently serves on the boards of two University of Virginia related start-up firms and advises several other closely-held family firm boards including Love’s Travel Centers in addition to being a moderator for two Nelson Study Groups (petroleum distributors).
His research portfolio includes numerous cases, monographs, and referred articles which have appeared in the following journals: European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Bank Research, Journal of Retail Banking, Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Journal of Real Estate Research, The Cornell Quarterly, Credit Union Executive, Long Range Planning, IMA Journal of Mathematics in Business and Industry, Journal of Financial Education, and Journal of Case Research. His research on the Virginia industries has been honored in 1995 and 2002 respectively by commendations from former governors George Allen and Mark Warner.
He is married to Susan Manly McMillan of Birmingham, Alabama and has two sons, Whitfield (24) and Mason (21). They live on a cattle farm near Charlottesville, Virginia shared with dogs, cats, ponies, and donkeys. He is an ever hopeful fly fisherman and avid antiquarian and preservationist.