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Web: http://www.ge.com/en/index.htm

Background:

General Electric can trace its roots to the founding of the Edison Electric Light Company in 1878. By 1890, Edison had organized his various businesses into the Edison General Electric Company. The Thomson-Houston Company and the various companies that had merged to form it were led by Charles A. Coffin. In 1892, these two major companies combined to form the General Electric Company.

Today, GE is made up of six businesses, each of which includes a number of units.

 

• GE Commercial Finance provides loans, operating leases, financing programs, commercial insurance, and an array of other products and services aimed at enabling business worldwide to grow.

• GE Healthcare is a leader in the development of a new paradigm of patient care dedicated to detecting disease earlier and helping physicians tailor treatment for individual patients.

• GE Industrial provides a broad range of products and services throughout the world, including appliances and lighting; plastics and silicones products; and equipment services.

• GE Infrastructure is one of the world's leading providers of fundamental technologies to developing countries, including aviation, energy, oil and gas, rail and water process technologies.

• GE Money, formerly known as GE Consumer Finance, is a leading provider of credit services to consumers, retailers and automotive dealers around the world.

• NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.

 

 

Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of the Board and CEO

Jeffrey R. Immelt, 50, is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of GE. Mr. Immelt, the 9th Chairman in GE's 128-year history, was appointed to this post on September 7, 2001. Previously, Mr. Immelt served as President and Chairman-elect of GE starting in November 2000.

He began his GE career in 1982. Over the last 24 years, Mr. Immelt has held a series of global leadership roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. He became an Officer of GE in 1989, and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.

In 2005 and 2006, Barron’s named Mr. Immelt one of the World’s Best CEO’s. Under his leadership, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the world's most respected company in polls conducted by Barron's and the Financial Times.

He serves as Chairman of The Business Council and is on the board of three non-profit organizations: Catalyst, devoted to advancing women in business; and Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City; and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Mr. Immelt holds a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College (1978) and an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1982).

 

Board of Directors:

 

James I. Cash, Jr.
Independent Director
Retired James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Graduate School of Business, Boston, MA. Director since 1997.
GE Board Committees: Audit; Public Responsibilities.

 

Sir William Castell LVO
Management Director
Chairman, GE Healthcare (Retired)
GE Board Committees: Public Responsibilities

 

Ann M. Fudge
Independent Director
Chairman and CEO, Young & Rubicam Brands, Global Marketing Communications Network, New York, NY.
Director since 1999.
GE Board Committees: Public Responsibilities

 

Claudio X. Gonzalez
Independent Director
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kimberly-Clark de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, and Director, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, consumer products.
Director since 1993.
GE Board Committees: Chair, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; Audit; Management Development and Compensation

 

Andrea Jung
Independent Director
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Avon Products, Inc., cosmetics, New York, NY.
Director since 1998.
GE Board Committees: Nominating and Corporate Governance; Management Development and Compensation

 

Alan (A.G.) Lafley
Independent Director
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive, Procter & Gamble Co., personal and household products, Cincinnati, OH.
Director since 2002.
GE Board Committees: Nominating and Corporate Governance

 

Robert W. Lane
Independent Director
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Deere & Company, agricultural and forestry equipment, Moline, Ill.
Director since 2005.
GE Board Committees: Audit

 

Ralph S. Larsen
Independent Director
Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Johnson & Johnson, pharmaceutical, medical and consumer products, New Brunswick, NJ.
Director since 2002.
GE Board Committees: Chair, Management Development and Compensation

 

Rochelle B. Lazarus
Independent Director
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, advertising, New York, NY.
Director since 2000.
GE Board Committees: Nominating and Corporate Governance; Public Responsibilities

 

Sam Nunn
Independent Director
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C.
Director since 1997.
GE Board Committees: Chair, Public Responsibilities; Management Development

 

Roger S. Penske
Material Relationship with GE
Chairman of the Board, Penske Corporation, Penske Truck Leasing Corporation, and United Auto Group, Inc., transportation and automotive services, Detroit, MI.
Director since 1994.
GE Board Committees: Public Responsibilities

 

Robert J. Swieringa
Independent Director
Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Professor of Accounting, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Director since 2002.
GE Board Committees: Audit 

 

Douglas A. Warner III
Independent Director
Former Chairman of the Board, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., The Chase Manhattan Bank, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Investment, Banking, of New York, NY.
Director since 1992.
GE Board Committees: Chair, Audit; Nominating and Corporate Governance; Management Development and Compensation

 

Robert C. Wright
Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, General Electric Company;
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NBC Universal
Director since 2000.

GE Board Committees: Public Responsibilities

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