George traveled for a year working odd jobs, including periods as a salvage diver and water-ski instructor, before moving to Boston to pursue a graduate degree with Northeastern University's wire chamber group (famous for their particle physics research and electronic detector systems). He completed his Doctorate in Nuclear Physics in 1976 and was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, national graduate honor society. During the course of his studies he carried out research at both Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York and Fermi National Laboratories outside of Chicago.

Dr. Blanar spent the next seven years working in fundamental Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physics studying quark spectroscopy in the United States and Europe. Supporting institutions included the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Physics at Munich, Germany, the Center for European Nuclear Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland; the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. During this time, George was an author or co-author of over 50 publications and gave a large number of presentations at international conferences .

In 1982, Dr. Blanar joined LeCroy Corporation in Geneva, Switzerland, the primary commercial supplier of electronics for particle and heavy ion physics research. He worked in LeCroy's marketing and engineering groups developing new electronic systems and equipment that would eventually be integrated in almost all physics research laboratories word-wide. His contribution to the electronics suite of the CERN L3 LEP electron - positron experiment earned him an inclusion as a co-author on over 25 publications.

Projects also included the human interface for the Model 9400 Digital Storage Oscilloscope for the Test and Measurement (T&M) market. In 1985, George relocated to the corporate headquarters of LeCroy in New York where he became Director of Marketing for the Research Systems Division including the LeCroy / Iwatsu line of analog T&M instruments. He participated on LeCroy's initial public offering team resulting in a successful IPO in 1996 (NASDAQ symbol LCRY), and directed the diversification of the Division's products to include defense, medical imaging, and industrial applications. During his tenure with LeCroy, George was the Chairman and Proceedings Editor for seven international conferences on electronic instrumentation and published fourteen technical and trade articles on his work.

In 1998, George Blanar joined GIGA-TRONICS, Inc. Instrument Division, a leader in the fast-growing wireless markets and military electronics supplier (NASDAQ trading symbol GIGA). As Vice President, Sales & Marketing, George created programs that reversed three years of declining sales and tripled sales leads through the effective use of marketing communications, especially online. He catapulted Giga-tronics’ latest products into four major multi-national accounts focusing on the cellular telephone tower market. In addition, George overhauled the domestic and international sales rep and distributor organization and helped define the next generation of Giga-tronics’ products for the wireless market.

At the completion of these projects in 2000, Dr. Blanar joined the newly created Carilion Biomedical Institute (CBI) in Roanoke, Virginia as Vice President for Business Development. CBI provides research funding and entrepreneurial business support for biomedical research and product development (including devices and pharmaceuticals) for the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech and the Carilion Health System.

Here George was responsible for creating the innovative CBI 4-Step Business Program for the commercial development of research and inventions that identified research ideas and established intellectual properties and turned them into marketable business programs . This critically reviewed program focuses R&D on critical issues, uncovers commercial "products" in the research "projects", and creates business plans for successful exits. To date, CBI has already created two successful companies, and has prepared six more. It also has prepared three intellectual properties for licensing to industry leaders

Dr. Blanar left CBI in early 2003 to form his own consulting company, Blanar & Associates, Inc. to assist companies with evaluations of emerging technologies and markets as well as providing transition management for start-ups. This organization has experience working in both merger & acquisition programs and with start-up businesses. Blanar & Associates works in a wide range of markets and technologies including biomedical, biotechnology, information technology, wireless, high-speed electronics, and computer systems.

George continues to publish in business magazines and professional journals with articles on business development and process. He is also an inventor of a number of electronic circuits, medical devices, and information systems.

During his varied career George has earned many honors and recognitions including election to the Administrative Council of the Nuclear Physics & Plasma Society of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). In his private life George is a Board Member of several professional and civic organizations. He is a National Ski Patroller and a licensed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in both Virginia and New York, and regularly volunteers with his local rescue squad.