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George L. Lindemann is chairman of the board, president and CEO of Southern Union Company. He has held the positions of chairman and CEO since 1990 and was additionally named president in November 2005. Southern Union ranks as the second largest natural gas pipeline company in the United States.
Lindemann is also chairman and CEO of Activated Communications, Inc., a diversified communications firm headquartered in New York City. Lindemann was the founder, chairman and CEO of Metro Mobile CTS, Inc. from 1983 until April 1992. Metro Mobile was the nation’s second-largest independent cellular telephone company until its merger with Bell Atlantic Corporation in 1992. Under his leadership, the company grew into a nationwide operator of cellular telephone systems, with networks in the Northeast, Southeast and Southwest serving over 11 million customers. During the same period, Lindemann was also president and CEO of Metro Mobile Communications, Inc., the second largest SMR (specialized mobile radio) dispatch company in the United States.
From 1972 to 1981, Lindemann was president of Vision Cable Communications, a pioneer in the development of the cable television industry with operations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.
For ten years prior, he was in the pharmaceutical business and served as president of Smith, Miller and Patch. During that time, he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat product research and was responsible for developing and marketing the first permanent-wear soft contact lens (Permalens), as well as early research on intraocular lenses.
Lindemann was born in 1936 in New York City and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the boards of directors of the Metropolitan Club, New York City; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the International Class A Yacht Association, Perto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy.
Lindemann resides in Palm Beach, Florida. | 