George Reyes

George passed away peacefully at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View California at the age of 69, ending his courageous battle against Alzheimer's. George was born to Gregorio de los Reyes and Georgina Alday de los Reyes in Havana, Cuba. At the age of 7, George and his family moved to Miami. In 1976, he graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa with a Business degree in Accounting. In Tampa, he married his first wife Elaine Kay Traub, and moved to California for a job opportunity at Memorex. This began the journey of his finance career working at Four Phase Systems, On Line Microcenter, ROLM, IBM, SUN Microsystems, ONI Systems, and eventually Google, where he retired as the CFO. In 1979, he graduated from the University of Santa Clara with an MBA in Finance. In 1983, his daughter Nichole was born. While working at ROLM, he met his current wife Susan and they married in October 1993. Their first son, Geoffrey was born in 1995, followed by the birth of their second son, Connor in 1999. George served as a member of the Board of Directors for numerous companies including Symantec, BEA Systems, Informix, Chordiant Software, Veritas Software, and LifeLock. Additionally, he was on the Advisory Board of Directors for the Leavey School of Business Administration at Santa Clara University.His awards and recognition throughout his career include 2008 CFO of the Year for Public Companies over $500 M awarded by the San Francisco Business Times in collaboration with Larkin Street Youth Services. Additionally, he was featured in the Treasury & Risk Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 he was featured in People Espanol magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics and in 2005 and 2006 he was honored as one of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business by the Hispanic Engineer of Information Technology and Science Spectrum magazines.George leaves behind his wife of thirty years, Susan, his daughter Nichole (Drew) and grandchildren, Samuel and Charlotte, his sons Geoffrey and Connor, his brother Gregorio (Vanessa), sister Alina (Mike), nephews Greg (Jocelyn), Mark (Nishelle), nieces Alina (Franc), Lisa, and Victoria, and mother-in-law, Maria.The visitation will be held on Sunday, November 26, from 5:00-8:00 PM with a rosary at 6:00 PM at Lima Family Santa Clara Mortuary. The funeral mass will be held on Monday, November 27, at noon at St Mary's Church in Los Gatos, followed by entombment at 2:00 PM at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery.In place of flowers, if you wish, the family requests donations in George's memory to be made to the Alzheimer's Association - www.alz.org