Jeffrey Immelt is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at General Electric (GE). GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide, including more than 168,000 in the United States. With revenues of over $131 billion in 2002, the diversified conglomerate has the largest stock market capitalization among U.S. companies. Mr. Immelt joined GE in 1982, after having received a B.S. in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University. Over the course of two decades, Mr. Immelt held senior positions in GE’s appliances and plastics divisions before being named president and chairman-elect of GE in November 2000. Succeeding Jack Welch, he took office as GE’s ninth chairman in the company’s 125-year history on September 7, 2001.
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