- Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million. - J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913) was an American financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. - Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chief executive officer. - Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, … - Robert Nardelli
Robert L. Nardelli (born May 17, 1948, in Old Forge, Pennsylvania) is the former Chairman, President, and CEO of The Home Depot, serving from December 2000 to January 2007. Prior to that, he was one of the top four executives at General Electric. Nardelli received his Bachelor of Science in business from Western Illinois University and earned an MBA from University of Louisville. He joined General Electric in 1971 as an entry-level manufacturing engineer. - Suzy Welch
Suzy Welch (nee Wetlaufer) (b. 1959) is a former editor of the "Harvard Business Review". She gained notoriety after being forced to resign as editor in early 2002 after admitting having an affair with Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric while preparing an interview with him for the magazine. - Susie Gharib
Susie Gharib , Nightly Business Report Moderator: "The Department of Justice said this power station in California was arrested during aware of the rule of" energy crisis four years ago, only to push the price of 'electricity. The company, which owns the facility, and four of his staff is now tax CA `manipulation of energy markets. - Keith Sherin
Keith Sherin Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer - Mario Monti
Mario Monti (born March 19, 1943) is an Italian economist and politician - Sam Nunn
Sam Nunn is a senior partner in the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding,where he focuses his practice on international and corporate matters. From1972 to 1996, he served as a U.S. Senator from Georgia.. During his tenurein the Senate, Senator Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed ServicesCommittee and the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He also servedon the Intelligence and Small Business Committees. - James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, … - Leslie Moonves
Leslie Moonves (born December 23, 1948 in New York City) is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation. Moonves served as co-president and co-chief operating officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005. Prior to this he was President of CBS Entertainment from 1995 and President of Warner Bros. Television from 1993, where he green-lit the hit shows "Wings" and "Survivor". - Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his "concentric theory of atomic structure". - A. G. Lafley
Alan George Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is the CEO and an executive director of Procter & Gamble. He joined P&G upon his graduation, in 1977. He assumed the CEO office in 2000. He is American and was born in Keene, New Hampshire. He graduated from Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois and received a B.A. from Hamilton College in 1969 and a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977 (after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War). - Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace (born Myron Leon Wallace on May 9, 1918) is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes" since its debut in 1968. During his career at "60 Minutes", he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Ayn Rand, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Malcolm X, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Jeffrey Wigand, … - Randy Falco
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC, Randy Falco is responsible for setting strategy and overseeing the businesses and operations of this global Web services company, which operates some of the Internet's most popular destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions. - Al Ries
Al Ries is a marketing professional and author. He is also the co-founder and chairman of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Ries & Ries with his partner and daughter, Laura Ries. Along with Jack Trout, Ries coined the term "positioning", as related to the field of marketing, and authored "Positioning: The Battle For Your Mind", an industry standard on the subject. - James Martin
James Martin is the associate editor of the Jesuit magazine America. He is known for his critical reporting on Opus Dei. Martin graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 1982 and worked in corporate finance at General Electric for 6 years. Becoming dissatisfied with the corporate world, he became more deeply involved in the Catholic Church and made the decision to become a Jesuit in 1988. In addition to his work at America Magazine, … - William Castell
A graduate of the City of London College, Sir William joined Amersham plc in 1989 as Chief Executive. After GE acquired Amersham plc in April 2004, Sir William was appointed a Vice Chairman of the General Electric Company and became the CEO of GE Healthcare, the combination of the Amersham and the GE Medical businesses and, in July 2005, became the Chairman of GE Healthcare. In April 2006 Sir William retired as a Vice Chairman of GE. - Frank Blake
Frank Blake was appointed chairman and CEO of The Home Depot in January 2007. Home Depot is currently the third largest retailer in the world, and the second largest in the United States. Prior to this position, he served as vice chairman of the board of directors and executive vice president of the company. He joined The Home Depot in 2002 as executive vice president, Business Development and Corporate Operations, and was responsible for real estate, store construction, … - Frank Whittle
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907-9 August 1996) was an English Royal Air Force officer and is seen as the father of jet propulsion. By the end of the war, Whittle's efforts resulted in engines that would lead the world in performance through the end of the decade. Whittle and Hans von Ohain met after the war and initially Whittle was angry with him as he felt Ohain had stolen his ideas. - Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. - James Wright
James Wright was an engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943. The invention of Silly Putty happened by accident. During World War II, the United States couldn't obtain natural rubber from Asian suppliers, who gathered it from rubber trees. Faced with a shortage of raw material, American scientists searched for other materials to use in truck tires and soldiers' boots. James Wright, an engineer at General Electric, was working with silicone oil-a clear, … - Percy Barnevik
Since 2000, Percy Barnevik has been active in philanthropic work in Tamil Nadu, India. Presently, he is an adviser and donor to the Indian Trust, Hand in Hand. One of the five programs consists of Self Help Groups with Micro-credits. Through the organization's efforts, 186,000 women have been trained and 54,000 family businesses have been created. In addition, 6,500 children in child labor have moved into 25 transit schools established for this purpose. - Gerard Swope
Gerard Swope (December 1, 1872 - November 20, 1957) was a U.S. electronics businessman. He served as the president of General Electric Company between 1922 and 1939, and again from 1942 until 1944. During this time Swope expanded GE's product offerings, reorienting GE toward consumer home appliances, and offering consumer credit services. Swope is possibly best-known for his labor relations innovations. While at GE, Swope implemented numerous labor reforms, … - Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener was an American theoretical and applied mathematician. He was a pioneer in the study of stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems. Wiener is perhaps best known as the founder of cybernetics, a field that formalizes the notion of feedback and has implications for engineering, systems control, computer science, biology, philosophy, and the organization of society. - Gary M. Reiner
Biography: Gary M. Reiner is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of GE, a position he has held since 1996. Reiner joined GE in 1991 as Vice President-Corporate Business Development where he was responsible for evaluating new business ideas and acquisitions, strategic planning, company-wide sourcing and driving best practices throughout the business. - Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz (April 9, 1865-October 26, 1923) was an American Mathematician and Electrical Engineer. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to better design electric motors for use in industry. - Joseph Weizenbaum
Joseph Weizenbaum (Berlin, January 8, 1923) is a professor emeritus of computer science at MIT. Born in Berlin to Jewish parents, he escaped Nazi Germany in 1936, emigrating with his family to the United States. He started studying mathematics in 1941 in the US, but his studies were interrupted by the war, during which he served in the military. Around 1950 he worked on analog computers, and helped create a digital computer for Wayne State University. - James Russell
James Russell (born 1931 in Bremerton, Washington) is an American inventor. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he initiated many types of experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder. In 1965, Russell joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland, … - Charles E. Wilson
Charles E. Wilson was the CEO of General Electric. He served President Truman as the chairman of a blue-ribbon commission on civil rights in 1946 and as head of the Office of Defense Mobilization in 1951. He was nicknamed "Electric Charlie" so as not to be confused with Charles E. Wilson, Secretary of Defense and Chairman of General Motors. - Douglas A. Warner III
Following graduation from Yale University in 1968, Mr. Warner joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a wholly-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (formerly J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated). - Roger Penske
Roger S. Penske , Chairman - Jim Moran
James S. "Jim" Moran (January 1, 1908-October 18, 1999) was an imaginative publicist who was active in the 1940s and 1950s as a press agent for various clients: film studios, manufacturers and retailers. Moran made his mark when he went to Alaska on behalf of General Electric and sold a refrigerator to an Eskimo. He promoted a real-estate development by spending days looking for a needle that had been dropped into a haystack. - Lawrence Bossidy
Lawrence A. Bossidy ('Larry') is a businessman and author. From 1991-1999 Bossidy served as Chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal Corporation. He became Chairman of Honeywell Corporation when Honeywell was acquired by AlliedSignal in 1999. (Allied Signal, well known in the Aerospace, Aviation, and Military industries adopted the Honeywell name, as Honeywell's product diversity provided greater notoriety in the consumer market). - Reginald H. Jones
Reginald H. Jones (b 11 July 1917 Stoke-on-Trent, England - d 2003) was the chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1972 to 1981. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the GE's Business Training Course in 1939. He spent his entire career with GE. In 1968, he became the company's chief financial officer, and was elected senior vice-president two years later. He was succeeded by Jack Welch after a succession contest that Jones oversaw. - Giovanni Bisignani
Giovanni Bisignani is the Director General of the International Air Transport Association, appointed in 2002. Bisignani is the former chairman of Italy's flagship airline Alitalia. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School, and has worked as a senior executive at General Electric. Bisignani is the chief proponent of the campaign for airlines to adopt radio frequency identification devices for checked baggage, to reduced the incidence of lost airfreight baggage items. - Charles A. Coffin
Charles A. Coffin (1844-1926) was the first President of General Electric corporation. - Mark Haines
Mark Haines (born April 19,1946) is the former host of the CNBC show "Squawk Box". Haines now appears on "Squawk on the Street" (which airs from 9-10am ET), which he co-hosts, along with Erin Burnett. He co-anchors the 10-11am hour of "Morning Call" from a set overlooking the New York Stock Exchange, along with Liz Claman. Haines attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and is a member of the New Jersey bar association.
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