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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