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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Jeffrey Immelt

57 2001 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

Keith Sherin

54 2007 Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer

Michael Neal

59 2012 Vice Chairman; Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, GE Capital Services, Inc.

John Rice

56 2010 Vice Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer - Global Growth & Operations

Jamie Miller

44 2013 Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer

Brackett Denniston

65 2004 Senior Vice President, General Counsel

Kathryn Cassidy

58 2009 Senior Vice President, GE Treasurer

John Lynch

60 2007 Senior Vice President - Human Resources

Pamela Daley

60 2004 Senior Vice President - Corporate Business Development

Jan Hauser

54 2013 Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President, Controller

William Beattie

53 2009 Independent Director

John Brennan

59 2012 Independent Director

James Cash

65 1997 Independent Director

Francisco D'Souza

44 2013 Independent Director

Marijn Dekkers

55 2012 Independent Director

Ann Fudge

62 1999 Independent Director

Susan Hockfield

61 2006 Independent Director

Andrea Jung

54 1998 Independent Director

Robert Lane

64 2005 Independent Director

Ralph Larsen

74 2002 Independent Presiding Director

Rochelle Lazarus

65 2000 Independent Director

James Mulva

66 2008 Independent Director

Robert Swieringa

70 2002 Independent Director

James Tisch

60 2010 Independent Director

Douglas Warner

66 1992 Independent Director

Elizabeth Seibert

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Biographies

Name Description

Jeffrey Immelt

Mr. Jeffrey R. Immelt is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of General Electric Company. Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare 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. Mr. Immelt was the chair of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Mr. Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982.

Keith Sherin

Mr. Keith S. Sherin is Vice Chairman, Chief Financial Officer of General Electric Company. Mr. Sherin joined GE in 1981 through the GE Financial Management Program in Medium Steam Turbine. After three years he joined the Corporate Audit Staff where he progressed to executive audit manager and later manager of Programs and Planning. He was promoted to manager of Finance for Commercial Engine Operations at GE Aircraft Engines then director of Finance for GE Plastics Europe. In 1995, Sherin joined GE Medical Systems as manager of Global Finance and Financial Services, and less than a year later he was promoted to vice president of Finance and Financial Services Operation. He was appointed senior vice president in December 1998 when he was named chief financial officer. He holds a BS from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Columbia University. He serves on the Boards of the GE Foundation (the Company's philanthropic foundation) and the University of Notre Dame Advisory Council for the College of Business Administration.

Michael Neal

Mr. Michael A. Neal (Mike) is Vice Chairman of General Electric Company and Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, GE Capital Services, Inc., a subsidiary Company of General Electric Company. Mr. Neal joined GE in 1979, working on the company's industrial side. In 1987, he was named vice president and general manager of Vendor Financial Services and, just three years later, became general manager of Commercial Equipment Finance. Mr. Neal was a GE Capital executive vice president from 1994 through 1999, a period of enormous growth in GE's financial service businesses. In 2000, he was named president and chief operating officer of GE Capital. He became President and CEO of GE Commercial Finance, based in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, in 2002. In 2005, Mr. Neal was named Vice Chairman of General Electric. Mr. Neal is a 1975 graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

John Rice

Mr. John G. Rice is Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer - Global Growth & Operations of General Electric Company. He was named to his current position in July 2005. He began his General Electric career in 1978 as a member of the Financial Management Program, moving to the GE Corporate Audit Staff in 1981. In 1984 he joined GE Appliances, having various assignments in operations and consumer service. In 1992 Rice was named president and CEO of GE's Canadian appliance affiliate in Toronto, Canada. In 1994 he assumed leadership of the GE Corporate Audit Staff and a year later was appointed president of GE Plastics Asia/Pacific business headquarters in Singapore. Mr. Rice was appointed president and CEO, GE Transportation Systems in Erie, Pennsylvania, in September 1997. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees there. In addition, Mr. Rice is chairman of the U.S. Energy Association, a director of Emory Healthcare, chairman-elect of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, a trustee at the Woodruff Arts Center, a member of the Georgia Tech Board of Advisors, and a trustee at the Walker School.

Jamie Miller

Ms. Jamie S. Miller has been appointed as a Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer of General Electric Company effective April 15, 2013. She has served as Vice President, Controller, Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. Prior to joining GE in April 2008, Ms. Miller served as the Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Wellpoint, Inc. Prior to joining Wellpoint in August 2007, Ms. Miller served as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. From May 2004 to August 2005, she was Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Genworth Financial (formerly GE Financial Assurance) having joined in 2003 as Controller.

Brackett Denniston

Mr. Brackett B. Denniston III, is Senior Vice President, General Counsel of General Electric Company, since February 2004. He is responsible for the worldwide GE legal organization and for all GE legal operations, reporting directly to Mr. Immelt. He is a member of GE's Corporate Executive Council, the GE Capital Corporation Board of Directors and is chair of the Company's Policy Compliance Review Board. Mr. Denniston joined GE as Vice President, Senior Counsel For Litigation and Legal Policy in September 1996. Prior to joining GE, he was Chief Legal Counsel to Governor William F. Weld of Massachusetts from 1993 to 1996. His responsibilities included judicial selection, litigation, criminal justice issues and legislation. He was a partner, and earlier an associate, at Goodwin, Procter and Hoar in Boston (1974-1982, 1986-1993) where he specialized in complex civil litigation, securities matters and white-collar crime. He represented parties in matters ranging from insider trading cases, pharmaceutical prosecutions, securities fraud and banking cases. He was a member of the firm's Executive Committee and numerous other firm committees. Mr. Denniston served as a law clerk to the Honorable Herbert Y. Choy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1973-74. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Kenyon College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the "Harvard Law Review."

Kathryn Cassidy

Ms. Kathryn A. Cassidy is Senior Vice President, GE Treasurer of General Electric Company. She served as Vice President and Treasurer of General Electric Company since March 2003. She was previously Vice President and Treasurer of GE. Before treasury operation, she spent several years as executive vice president and managing director for GE Capital - Real Estate where she was responsible for both the strategic ventures business and its Mexican operations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from Fordham University.

John Lynch

Mr. John F. Lynch is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of General Electric Company. He has been with the company for more than 15 years, the past five as head of HR for GE Healthcare. He now leads all HR functions across GE and have responsibility for executive and leadership development.

Pamela Daley

Ms. Pamela Daley is Senior Vice President - Corporate Business Development of General Electric Company. Ms. Daley was Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions from 1991 to 2004. She joined GE in 1989 as Tax Counsel. Prior to joining GE, Ms. Daley was a partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where she specialized in domestic and cross-border tax-oriented financings and commercial transactions. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1982 through 1989, teaching Federal Income Taxation of Partners and Partnerships. Ms. Daley received her B.A. degree with highest honors from Princeton University in 1974 in Romance Languages and Literatures. In 1979, she graduated first in her class from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif. Ms. Daley serves on the Board of Directors of Genworth Financial (NYSE: GNW), General Electric Capital Corporation, the GE Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund. She is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Jan Hauser

Ms. Jan R. Hauser has been appointed as Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President, Controller of General Electric Company effective April 15, 2013. Ms. Hauser has served as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) for over 19 years and is one of the leaders in the Accounting Services Group of the PwC National Professional Services Group. She also served as a Professional Accounting Fellow in the Office of the Chief Accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1991 to 1993. Ms. Hauser is a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, a group that advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board on matters related to board projects and agenda prioritization. Ms. Hauser also is a member of the Financial Reporting Committee of the Institute of Management Accountants, an organization that regularly provides commentary and feedback on important standard-setting activities. In addition, Ms. Hauser had been a member of the Emerging Issues Task Force from 2005 through 2011.

William Beattie

Mr. William Geoffrey Beattie is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is President of The Woodbridge Company Limited, Toronto, Canada. Mr. Beattie received a law degree from the University of Western Ontario and served as a partner in the Toronto law firm Torys LLP before joining The Woodbridge Company Limited, where he has been president since 1998. The Woodbridge Company Limited is a privately held investment holding company for the Thomson family of Canada and the majority shareholder of Thomson Reuters, where Mr. Beattie is the deputy chairman and director. Mr. Beattie also serves as a member of the board of directors of Royal Bank of Canada (where he serves as the chairman of the Risk Committee) and Maple Leaf Foods Inc. In addition to his public company board memberships, Mr. Beattie is a director of the Globe and Mail, and a trustee of the University Health Network in Toronto.

John Brennan

Mr. John J. Brennan has been appointed as Independent Director of General Electric Company, effective July 27, 2012. Mr. Brennan is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard Group, Inc. Brennan joined Vanguard in July 1982. He was elected president in 1989, served as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2008 and chairman of the board from 1998 to 2009. Brennan is Lead Governor of the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority Board of Governors and has served as the Chair of the Financial Accounting Foundation since 2009. Brennan graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. He has received honorary degrees from Curry College and Drexel University.

James Cash

Dr. James I. Cash, Jr., Ph.D., is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University with MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. Dr. Cash joined the faculty of Harvard Business School in 1976, where he served as chairman of the MBA program from 1992 to 1995, and served as chairman of HBS Publishing from 1998 until 2003. Dr. Cash retired from the Harvard Business School faculty in 2003. Dr. Cash is also a director of The Chubb Corporation and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. He serves as a trustee of the Bert King Foundation, on the board of the National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation, on the Advisory Council for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and as Senior Advisor to Highland Capital Partners. Dr. Cash also served as a director at Microsoft, Inc. and Phase Forward, Inc. during the last five years.

Francisco D'Souza

Mr. Francisco D'Souza is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He received his undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of East Asia and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been chief executive officer and a director of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation since January 1, 2007. He also served as Cognizant’s president from January 2007 through February 2012 and chief operating officer from December 2003 through December 2006. Mr. D’Souza joined Cognizant as a co-founder in 1994, the year it was started as a division of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Previously, he held positions at various divisions of Dun & Bradstreet. He is currently a trustee at Carnegie Mellon University and the New York Hall of Science.

Marijn Dekkers

Dr. Marijn E. Dekkers has been appointed as Independent Director of General Electric Company, effective June 08, 2012. He is vice president, German Chemical Industry Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of German Industry. He was previously president and CEO of Thermo Fisher Scientific and chief operating officer of Thermo Electron. He began his professional career in 1985 as a GE scientist at GE's corporate research center in Niskayuna, New York. At GE, he wrote 40 scientific articles and authored 30 patents. Dekkers holds a B.SC. from the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) in chemistry and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) in chemical engineering.

Ann Fudge

Ms. Ann M. Fudge is Independent Director of General Electric Company. She is former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Young & Rubicam Brands, global marketing communications network, New York. Ms. Fudge received a BA degree from Simmons College and an MBA from Harvard University. Ms. Fudge served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Young & Rubicam from 2003 to the end of 2006. Prior to joining Young & Rubicam, Ms. Fudge worked at General Mills and at General Foods, where she served in a number of positions including president of Kraft General Foods’ Maxwell House Coffee Company and president of Kraft’s Beverages, Desserts and Post Divisions. Ms. Fudge is a director of Novartis AG, Unilever PLC and Infosys Ltd. She is chair of the U.S. Program Advisory Panel of the Gates Foundation, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and serves on the Advisory Council of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Foreign Affairs Policy Board of the U.S. State Department. Ms. Fudge also served as a member of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

Susan Hockfield

Dr. Susan Hockfield, Ph.D., is Independent Director of General Electric Company since 2006. She is President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is President of MIT since December 2004. Dr. Hockfield received an undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, and a PhD from Georgetown University, concentrating in neuroscience. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco, she joined the scientific staff at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1980. In 1985, Dr. Hockfield joined the faculty of Yale University, where she went on to serve as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1998 to 2002 and then as provost. Dr. Hockfield is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hockfield serves as co-chair of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, a White House-based manufacturing initiative. She holds honorary degrees from Brown University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Tsinghua University (Beijing), University of Edinburgh, University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris), and the Watson School of Biological Sciences at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Hockfield is also a director of the World Economic Forum Foundation, an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the WGBH Educational Foundation and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Andrea Jung

Ms. Andrea Jung is Independent Director of General Electric Company, since 1998. She is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Avon Products, Inc., beauty products, New York. Ms. Jung, a graduate of Princeton University, joined Avon Products, Inc. in 1994 as president, product marketing for Avon U.S. She was elected president, global marketing, in 1996, an executive vice president in 1997, president and a director of the company in 1998, chief operating officer in 1998, chief executive officer in 1999 and chairman of the board in 2001. Previously, she was executive vice president, Neiman Marcus and a senior vice president for I. Magnin. Ms. Jung is also a co-lead director of Apple Inc., a director of Catalyst, a nonprofit corporate membership research and advisory organization, vice chairman and former chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations and a member of the board of trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Robert Lane

Dr. Robert W. Lane is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Deere & Company, agricultural, construction and forestry equipment, Moline, Illinois. He is a graduate of Wheaton College. Dr. Lane also holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Dr. Lane joined Deere & Company in 1982 following a career in global banking, and served Deere in leadership positions in its global construction equipment and agricultural divisions as well as at Deere Credit, Inc. He also served as Deere’s chief financial officer and president, as chief executive officer from 2000 to 2009, and as chairman of the board from 2000 until his retirement in February 2010. Dr. Lane is a director of Verizon Communications Inc. and Northern Trust Corporation, a member of the supervisory board of BMW AG and a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago.

Ralph Larsen

Mr. Ralph S. Larsen is Independent Presiding Director of General Electric Company. He is former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson, pharmaceutical, medical and consumer products, New Brunswick, New Jersey. After graduating with a BBA degree from Hofstra University, Mr. Larsen joined Johnson & Johnson in 1962. In 1981, he left Johnson & Johnson to serve as president of Becton Dickinson’s consumer products division and returned to Johnson & Johnson in 1983 as president of its Chicopee subsidiary. In 1986, Mr. Larsen was named a company group chairman and later that year became vice chairman of the executive committee and chairman of the consumer sector. He was elected a director in 1987 and served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 1989 to 2002. Mr. Larsen is also a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mr. Larsen also served as a director at Xerox Corporation during the last five years.

Rochelle Lazarus

Ms. Rochelle B. Lazarus is Independent Director of General Electric Company. She is Chairman of the Board and former Chief Executive Officer of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, global marketing communications company, New York. She is a graduate of Smith College. Ms. Lazarus also holds an MBA from Columbia University. She joined Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide in 1971, becoming president of its U.S. direct marketing business in 1989. She then became president of Ogilvy & Mather New York and president of Ogilvy & Mather North America before becoming president and chief operating officer of the worldwide agency in 1995, chief executive officer in 1996, which position she held to 2008, and chairman in 1997. Ms. Lazarus also serves as a director of Merck & Co., Inc., the American Museum of Natural History, the World Wildlife Fund and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, is a trustee of the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School.

James Mulva

Mr. James J. Mulva is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ConocoPhillips, international, integrated energy company, Houston, Texas. Mr. Mulva received a BBA degree and an MBA in finance from the University of Texas. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy, he joined Phillips Petroleum Company in 1973 and became its chief financial officer in 1990, when he also became a member of the company’s management committee. He was appointed senior vice president in 1993, executive vice president in 1994, president and chief operating officer in 1994 and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1999 to 2002. He has been president and chief executive officer of ConocoPhillips since 2002 and also became chairman in 2004. Mr. Mulva served as chairman of the American Petroleum Institute in 2005 and 2006 and is a member of the board of visitors for the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and The Business Council.

Robert Swieringa

Dr. Robert J. Swieringa, Ph.D., is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is Professor of Accounting and former Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Dr. Swieringa received a BA degree in economics from Augustana College, an MBA in accounting and economics from the University of Denver and a PhD in accounting and complex organizations from the University of Illinois. He taught accounting at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University before serving as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 1986 to 1996. He was then an accounting professor at Yale’s School of Management from 1996 to 1997 and was the ninth dean of Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Swieringa has been a professor of accounting at the Johnson Graduate School of Management since 1997. Dr. Swieringa is a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the board of managers of the Partners Group Private Equity Fund, and the board of trustees of Augustana College. He is a past president of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the AAA and a past chair of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.

James Tisch

Mr. James S. Tisch is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is President and Chief Executive Officer, Loews Corporation, diversified holding company, New York, New York. Mr. Tisch received a degree from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1998, he has been the president and chief executive officer of Loews Corporation, one of the diversified corporations in the United States with subsidiaries involved in commercial property-casualty insurance, offshore drilling, interstate natural gas transmission, natural gas exploration and production and luxury lodging. He also serves as a director of Loews, and Loews’ subsidiary CNA Financial. In addition, he is chairman of Loews’ subsidiary Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Mr. Tisch serves as chairman of non-profit WNET.ORG, parent of WNET Channel 13 and WLIW Channel 21. He also sits on the boards of the New York Public Library, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the Partnership for New York City and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Tisch also was formerly a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Douglas Warner

Mr. Douglas A. Warner, III, is Independent Director of General Electric Company. He is former Chairman of the Board, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., The Chase Manhattan Bank, and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, investment banking, New York, New York. 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). He was elected president and a director of the bank and its parent in 1990, serving as chairman and chief executive officer from 1995 to 2000, when he became chairman of the board of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., The Chase Manhattan Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company until his retirement in 2001. Mr. Warner is chairman of the board of managers and the board of overseers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, chairman of the Yale Investment Committee and a trustee of Yale University. Mr. Warner also served as a director at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., Motorola Inc. and Motorola Solutions Inc. during the last five years.

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