General Electric
COMPANY
Founded 1878 by Thomas Edison, becoming General Electric with the 1892 merger of the Edison General Electric Company with the Thomson-Houston Company.
Official Website:
http://www.ge.com/
Industry:
Diversified
Ticker:
NYSE:GE
Corporate headquarters:
Fairfield, CT
Sales:
$173B (2007)
Employees:
325,000
EXECUTIVES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter J. Barris | Business | c. 1952 | New Enterprise Associates | |
| Stephen M. Bennett | Business | c. 1954 | CEO of Symantec, 2012-14 | |
| Stephen Berger | Business | c. 1937 | Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners | |
| Ann C. Berzin | Business | c. 1952 | CEO of FGIC, 1992-2001 | |
| James R. Birle | Business | 25-Jan-1936 | Former Partner, Blackstone Group | |
| Frank Blake | Business | c. 1950 | CEO of Home Depot | |
| Norman P. Blake, Jr. | Business | c. 1942 | CEO of USF&G Corporation, 1990-97 | |
| Theodore R. Boehm | Judge | 12-Sep-1938 | Justice, Indiana Supreme Court | |
| Larry Bossidy | Business | 5-Mar-1935 | CEO of Honeywell | |
| Fred A. Breidenbach | Business | c. 1946 | President of Gulfstream Aerospace, 1993-97 | |
| Jenne K. Britell | Business | c. 1942 | Structured Ventures, Inc. | |
| Charles F. Brush | Inventor | 17-Mar-1849 | 15-Jun-1929 | Street lights |
| Robert H. Brust | Business | c. 1944 | CFO of Kodak, 2000-06 | |
| David L. Calhoun | Business | c. 1957 | CEO of The Nielsen Company | |
| William Castell | Business | 10-Apr-1947 | CEO of GE Healthcare | |
| William D. Coolidge | Physicist | 23-Oct-1873 | 4-Feb-1975 | Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes |
| Thomas A. Corcoran | Business | c. 1945 | Senior Advisor, Carlyle Group | |
| David M. Cote | Business | 1952 | CEO of Honeywell | |
| Dennis D. Dammerman | Business | 4-Nov-1945 | 23-Jul-2013 | CFO of GE, 1998-2005 |
| Patrice M. Daniels | Business | c. 1961 | Blue Sky Advisors | |
| Chris A. Davis | Business | c. 1950 | Partner at Forstman Little & Co. | |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor | 11-Feb-1847 | 18-Oct-1931 | Invented the light bulb |
| Matthew J. Espe | Business | 14-Sep-1958 | CEO of Ikon Office Solutions | |
| Michael D. Fraizer | Business | c. 1958 | CEO of Genworth Financial | |
| Stephen L. Green | Business | c. 1954 | Canaan Capital Partners | |
| Kirk S. Hachigian | Business | c. 1959 | CEO of Cooper Industries | |
| Joseph E. Harlan | Business | 5-May-1959 | Divisional EVP at 3M | |
| Arthur H. Harper | Business | 3-Dec-1955 | CEO, GE Equipment Services 2002-05 | |
| Joyce Hergenhan | Business | c. 1941 | Former VP at General Electric | |
| Glen H. Hiner | Business | c. 1935 | CEO of Owens Corning, 1992-2002 | |
| Edwin J. Houston | Inventor | 9-Jul-1847 | 1-Mar-1914 | Thomson-Houston Electric Company |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | Business | 19-Feb-1956 | CEO of General Electric | |
| Lawrence R. Johnston | Business | 1949 | CEO of Albertson's, 2001-06 | |
| William J. Vareschi Jr. | Business | c. 1942 | Retired GE executive | |
| Jeffrey B. Kindler | Business | 13-May-1955 | CEO of Pfizer, 2006-10 | |
| Ellen J. Kullman | Business | 1956 | CEO of DuPont | |
| William J. Lansing | Business | c. 1958 | CEO of Value Vision Media, 2004-07 | |
| Lauralee E. Martin | Business | c. 1951 | COO of Jones Lang LaSalle | |
| Kevin M. McMullen | Business | c. 1960 | CEO of OMNOVA Solutions | |
| James McNerney | Business | 22-Aug-1949 | CEO of Boeing | |
| David E. Momot | Business | c. 1938 | Former GE executive | |
| Patricia B. Morrison | Business | c. 1959 | CIO of Motorola | |
| Daniel H. Mudd | Business | c. 1959 | CEO of Fannie Mae, 2005-08 | |
| Eugene F. Murphy | Business | 24-Feb-1934 | Vice Chairman of GE, 1997-99 | |
| Robert L. Nardelli | Business | 17-May-1948 | CEO of Chrysler | |
| Lorrie Norrington | Business | c. 1960 | President of eBay Marketplaces, 2008-10 | |
| James R. Olin | Politician | 28-Feb-1920 | 29-Jul-2006 | Congressman from Virginia, 1983-93 |
| John D. Opie | Business | c. 1939 | Vice Chairman of GE, 1995-2000 | |
| James A. Parke | Business | c. 1946 | Former GE Capital Services executive | |
| Vivek Paul | Business | 1958 | Vice Chairman of Wipro, 1999-2005 | |
| Gary L. Rogers | Business | c. 1944 | Vice Chairman of GE, 2001-03 | |
| Hellene S. Runtagh | Business | c. 1948 | Former EVP at Universal Studios | |
| Roger W. Schipke | Business | c. 1937 | CEO of Sunbeam, 1993-96 | |
| Richard G. Sim | Business | c. 1944 | APW Ltd. | |
| Richard F. Smith | Business | c. 1960 | CEO of Equifax | |
| Stephen G. Snyder | Business | c. 1949 | CEO of TransAlta | |
| David P. Spalding | Business | c. 1954 | Vice Chairman, The Cypress Group | |
| Harry Stonecipher | Business | 16-May-1936 | CEO of Boeing, 2003-05 | |
| Gregory L. Summe | Business | c. 1956 | CEO of PerkinElmer | |
| Thomas J. Szkutak | Business | c. 1961 | CFO of Amazon | |
| Francis X. Taylor | Government | ? | Counterterrorism envoy, 2001-02 | |
| Elihu Thomson | Inventor | 29-Mar-1853 | 13-Mar-1937 | Electric welding and A/C motors |
| John M. Trani | Business | c. 1945 | CEO of Stanley Works, 1996-2003 | |
| Lloyd G. Trotter | Business | c. 1945 | Vice Chairman at GE, 2006-08 | |
| David C. Wang | Business | c. 1945 | President of Boeing China | |
| Jack Welch | Business | 19-Nov-1935 | CEO of GE, 1981-2001 | |
| Dennis K. Williams | Business | c. 1946 | CEO of IDEX Corporation, 2000-05 | |
| Keith E. Williams | Business | c. 1953 | CEO of Underwriters Laboratories | |
| Robert C. Wright | Business | 1943 | CEO of NBC Universal | |
| Mike S. Zafirovski | Business | c. 1954 | CEO of Nortel |
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. Geoffrey Beattie | Business | c. 1960 | President and CEO of Woodbridge Company | |
| James I. Cash, Jr. | Educator | c. 1948 | Harvard Business School, 1976-2003 | |
| William Castell | Business | 10-Apr-1947 | CEO of GE Healthcare | |
| Ann M. Fudge | Business | 23-Apr-1951 | CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 | |
| Susan Hockfield | Educator | 24-Mar-1951 | President of MIT | |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | Business | 19-Feb-1956 | CEO of General Electric | |
| Andrea Jung | Business | 1959 | CEO of Avon | |
| Alan G. Lafley | Business | 13-Jun-1947 | CEO of Procter & Gamble, 2000-09 | |
| Robert W. Lane | Business | 14-Nov-1949 | CEO of Deere, 2000-09 | |
| Rochelle B. Lazarus | Business | 1947 | CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, 1996-2009 | |
| James J. Mulva | Business | 19-Jun-1946 | CEO of Conoco-Phillips | |
| Sam Nunn | Politician | 8-Sep-1938 | US Senator from Georgia, 1972-97 | |
| Roger Penske | Business | 20-Feb-1937 | CEO of Penske Corporation | |
| Robert J. Swieringa | Educator | c. 1942 | Dean of Johnson School at Cornell | |
| James S. Tisch | Business | 2-Jan-1953 | CEO of Loews | |
| Douglas A. Warner III | Business | 9-Jun-1946 | CEO of JP Morgan, 1995-2000 |
PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Bardeen | Physicist | 23-May-1908 | 30-Jan-1991 | Co-Inventor of the transistor |
| Michael R. Bonsignore | Business | c. 1941 | CEO of Honeywell, 1999-2001 | |
| Larry Bossidy | Business | 5-Mar-1935 | CEO of Honeywell | |
| William Castell | Business | 10-Apr-1947 | CEO of GE Healthcare | |
| Dennis D. Dammerman | Business | 4-Nov-1945 | 23-Jul-2013 | CFO of GE, 1998-2005 |
| Frederick B. Dent | Government | 17-Aug-1922 | US Commerce Secretary, 1973-75 | |
| Claudio X. Gonzalez | Business | c. 1939 | CEO of Kimberly-Clark de Mexico | |
| Kenneth Langone | Business | c. 1935 | Co-Founder of Home Depot | |
| Ralph S. Larsen | Business | 18-Nov-1938 | 9-Mar-2016 | CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1989-2002 |
| Scott McNealy | Business | 13-Nov-1954 | Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems | |
| Henry S. Morgan | Business | 24-Oct-1900 | 8-Feb-1982 | Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley |
| Eugene F. Murphy | Business | 24-Feb-1934 | Vice Chairman of GE, 1997-99 | |
| John D. Opie | Business | c. 1939 | Vice Chairman of GE, 1995-2000 | |
| Gary L. Rogers | Business | c. 1944 | Vice Chairman of GE, 2001-03 | |
| Raymond Seitz | Diplomat | 8-Dec-1940 | US Ambassador to the UK, 1991-94 | |
| Jack Welch | Business | 19-Nov-1935 | CEO of GE, 1981-2001 | |
| Robert W. Woodruff | Business | 6-Dec-1889 | 7-Mar-1985 | President of Coca-Cola, 1923-54 |
| Robert C. Wright | Business | 1943 | CEO of NBC Universal | |
| Walter B. Wriston | Business | 3-Aug-1919 | 19-Jan-2005 | CEO of Citibank, 1967-84 |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernst F. W. Alexanderson | Inventor | 25-Jan-1878 | 14-May-1975 | Developed radio and television at GE and RCA |
| Ananda M. Chakrabarty | Scientist | 4-Apr-1938 | Oil-eating bacteria | |
| Ivar Giaever | Physicist | 5-Apr-1929 | Tunneling through superconductors | |
| H. Tracy Hall | Chemist | 20-Oct-1919 | 25-Jul-2008 | Synthetic diamonds |
| Albert Wallace Hull | Physicist | 19-Apr-1880 | 22-Jan-1966 | Inventor of the magnetron tube |
| Irving Langmuir | Chemist | 31-Jan-1881 | 16-Aug-1957 | Inventor of the high-vacuum tube |
| Elihu Thomson | Inventor | 29-Mar-1853 | 13-Mar-1937 | Electric welding and A/C motors |
| Edward G. Zubler | Inventor | 12-Mar-1925 | 20-Mar-2004 | Inventor of the halogen lamp |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward G. Acheson | Inventor | 9-Mar-1856 | 6-Jul-1931 | Discovered silicon carbide |
| Stephen F. Angel | Business | c. 1956 | CEO of Praxair | |
| Zoë Baird | Government | 20-Jun-1952 | Atty Gen. nominee, thwarted by Nannygate | |
| James G. Berges | Business | c. 1947 | President of Emerson Electric, 1999-2005 | |
| Percy Williams Bridgman | Physicist | 21-Apr-1882 | 20-Aug-1961 | High-pressure physics |
| Rhonda L. Brooks | Business | c. 1952 | R. Brooks Advisors, Inc. | |
| Robert K. Burgess | Business | c. 1944 | CEO of Pulte Homes, 1993-2001 | |
| Vannevar Bush | Scientist | 11-Mar-1890 | 30-Jun-1974 | Pre-internet visionary |
| Arthur P. Byrne | Business | c. 1946 | Partner, J. W. Childs Associates | |
| Peter Cartwright | Business | 6-Jan-1930 | CEO of Calpine, 1984-2005 | |
| Joseph R. Cleveland | Business | c. 1944 | CIO of Lockheed Martin | |
| Sarah R. Coffin | Business | c. 1952 | Hexion Specialty Chemicals | |
| Robert B. Coutts | Business | c. 1950 | EVP at Lockheed Martin | |
| Robert W. Cremin | Business | c. 1941 | CEO of Esterline Technologies | |
| Haskell Curry | Mathematician | 12-Sep-1900 | 1-Sep-1982 | Combinatory Logic |
| Aart J. de Geus | Business | c. 1954 | CEO of Synopsys | |
| Marijn E. Dekkers | Business | c. 1957 | CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific | |
| Mark Donegan | Business | c. 1956 | CEO of Precision Castparts | |
| P. Michael Ehlerman | Business | c. 1938 | Chairman of Sovereign Bancorp | |
| William L. Emmet | Engineer | 10-Jul-1859 | 26-Sep-1941 | All-electric warships |
| Sheldon R. Erikson | Business | c. 1941 | Chairman of Cameron International | |
| Mark P. Frissora | Business | c. 1956 | CEO of The Hertz Corporation | |
| Ann M. Fudge | Business | 23-Apr-1951 | CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2003-07 | |
| Philip V. Gerdine | Business | c. 1939 | Retired Siemens executive | |
| Linda A. Goodspeed | Business | c. 1962 | Former EVP, Lennox International | |
| William R. Graber | Business | c. 1943 | CFO of McKesson, 2000-04 | |
| Patrick W. Gross | Business | 15-May-1944 | Co-Founder, American Management Systems | |
| David D. Harrison | Business | c. 1947 | CFO of Pentair, 2000-07 | |
| Michael C. Hawley | Business | c. 1938 | 13-Jun-2004 | CEO of Gillette, 1999-2000 |
| Richard S. Hill | Business | c. 1952 | CEO of Novellus Systems | |
| Robert Hofstadter | Physicist | 5-Feb-1915 | 17-Nov-1990 | Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| Nick Holonyak | Physicist | 3-Nov-1928 | Light-emitting diodes | |
| Paul W. Jones | Business | c. 1949 | CEO of A. O. Smith | |
| W. Steven Jones | Educator | c. 1952 | Dean of Kenan-Flagler Business School | |
| Christopher J. Kearney | Business | c. 1955 | CEO of SPX Corporation | |
| Lewis M. Kling | Business | c. 1944 | CEO of Flowserve | |
| Robert H. Krieble | Philanthropist | 1916 | 8-May-1997 | Loctite Corporation |
| Lyndon LaRouche | Economist | 8-Sep-1922 | Eccentric economist politician | |
| Ernest Lawrence | Physicist | 8-Aug-1901 | 27-Aug-1958 | Inventor of the cyclotron |
| Tim Mahoney | Government | 16-Aug-1956 | Congressman from Florida, 2007-09 | |
| Michael J. Mancuso | Business | c. 1943 | CFO of General Dynamics, 1994-2006 | |
| Craig O. Morrison | Business | c. 1957 | CEO of Hexion Specialty Chemicals | |
| Frank R. Noonan | Business | c. 1942 | CEO of R. H. Donnelley, 1991-2002 | |
| Ray Noorda | Business | 19-Jun-1924 | 9-Oct-2006 | Former CEO of Novell |
| David Packard | Business | 7-Sep-1912 | 26-Mar-1996 | Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard |
| Martin L. Perl | Physicist | 24-Jun-1927 | 30-Sep-2014 | Discovered the tau lepton |
| Barry W. Perry | Business | c. 1946 | CEO of Engelhard, 2001-06 | |
| Alexander M. Poniatoff | Business | 1892 | 1980 | Founder of Ampex |
| Jerry I. Porras | Business | c. 1938 | Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford | |
| Stanley A. Rabin | Business | c. 1938 | CEO of Commercial Metals, 1979-2006 | |
| Susan P. Read | Judge | 1947 | Judge, NY Court of Appeals | |
| Jesse W. Reno | Inventor | 4-Aug-1861 | 2-Jun-1947 | Invented the escalator |
| H. John Riley, Jr. | Business | c. 1941 | CEO of Cooper Industries, 1995-2005 | |
| Ellery Schempp | Activist | 1940 | Abington School District v. Schempp | |
| Thomas C. Schievelbein | Business | c. 1954 | Northrop Grumman Newport News | |
| Kevin W. Sharer | Business | 2-Mar-1948 | CEO of Amgen | |
| Robert L. Smialek | Business | c. 1943 | Applied Innovation | |
| Morton Sobell | Spy | 11-Apr-1917 | Rosenbergs' co-conspirator | |
| William R. Spivey | Business | c. 1947 | Retired AT&T executive | |
| Daniel K. K. Tseung | Business | c. 1971 | Sun Hung Kai Properties | |
| Kathryn C. Turner | Business | c. 1947 | Founder of Standard Technology, Inc. | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Novelist | 11-Nov-1922 | 11-Apr-2007 | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Jackie M. Ward | Business | c. 1939 | CEO of Computer Generation, 1968-2000 | |
| Norbert Wiener | Mathematician | 26-Nov-1894 | 18-Mar-1964 | Cybernetics |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur H. Compton | Physicist | 10-Sep-1892 | 15-Mar-1962 | Discovered the Compton Effect |
| James Connaughton | Government | ? | Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality | |
| John Diebold | Author | 8-Jun-1926 | 26-Dec-2005 | Advocate of automation |
| Henry Dreyfuss | Inventor | 2-Mar-1904 | 5-Oct-1972 | Product designer, human factors engineer |
| Charles Y. S. Liu | Business | c. 1950 | On Capital China Technology Fund | |
| John Patrick Schmitz | Government | 1955 | Washington lobbyist | |
| Martin Shubik | Economist | 24-Mar-1926 | Economist and game theorist |
CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucille Ball | Actor | 6-Aug-1911 | 26-Apr-1989 | I Love Lucy |
| Alton Brown | TV Personality | 30-Jul-1962 | Good Eats host | |
| Bing Crosby | Singer | 3-May-1903 | 14-Oct-1977 | White Christmas |
| Paul Harvey | Radio Personality | 4-Sep-1918 | 28-Feb-2009 | The Paul Harvey Show |
| Dorothy Lamour | Actor | 10-Dec-1914 | 22-Sep-1996 | My Favorite Brunette |
| Jeanette MacDonald | Actor | 18-Jun-1903 | 14-Jan-1965 | The Merry Widow |
| Groucho Marx | Comic | 2-Oct-1890 | 19-Aug-1977 | You Bet Your Life |
| Ray Milland | Actor | 3-Jan-1907 | 10-Mar-1986 | The Lost Weekend |
| David Niven | Actor | 1-Mar-1909 | 29-Jul-1983 | Pencil-moustachioed actor |
| Ronald Reagan | Head of State | 6-Feb-1911 | 5-Jun-2004 | 40th US President, 1981-89 |
| Dinah Shore | Singer | 29-Feb-1916 | 24-Feb-1994 | See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let |
| Loretta Young | Actor | 6-Jan-1913 | 12-Aug-2000 | Platinum Blonde |
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