Jeffery Immelt

Biography

 With GE since 1982, Immelt holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School. In addition to the C.E.O. post, Immelt is on the board of two non-profit organizations, including the Robin Hood Foundation, which attempts to alleviate poverty in New York City. As GE’s chief executive, Immelt gives the impression that he's at home at a turbine factory in Schenectady, N.Y., a research lab in Bangalore, and a dress rehearsal for Saturday Night Live. "This is not a man in a bubble," NBC's Conan O'Brien told Time magazine. Immelt differs from his predecessor, Jack Welch, who ran GE with a mixture of charisma and cost-cutting aggression that helped drive the company's earnings and increase its imposing stature on Wall Street. When Immelt replaced him in 2001, the then 45-year-old set about creating a quiet revolution at the company. "The GE shaped by a mathematics graduate, top salesman and C.E.O. is a humbler, though no less effective, company than in Mr. Welch's bombastic days," declared the Financial Times.

Research Interest

 Engineering