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THE GE BOARD
The GE Board held 14 meetings
during 2013, including three
meetings of the non-manage-
ment directors of the Board.
Each outside Board member is
expected to visit at least two GE
businesses without the involve-
ment of corporate management
in order to develop his or her
own feel for the Company.
Board members focus on the areas that are
important to shareowners — strategy, risk
management, leadership development, and
regulatory and compliance matters. In 2013,
they received briefi ngs on a variety of issues,
including capital allocation and business
development, risk management with a focus
on GE Capital, business simplifi cation,
GE Customer Opinion Surveys, leadership
development, technology excellence, IT and
cybersecurity, global research and develop-
ment strategy, Industrial Internet initiatives,
and GE’s branding, marketing and operating
initiatives. At the end of the year, the Board
and each of its committees conducted a
thorough self-evaluation.
DIRECTORS Left to right
Andrea Jung 2,3,5
Former Chairman of
the Board and
Chief Executive Offi cer,
Avon Products, Inc.,
beauty products,
New York, New York.
> Director since 1998.
Francisco D’Souza 5
Chief Executive Offi cer,
Cognizant Technology
Solutions Corporation,
global information
technology, consulting
and business process
outsourcing, Teaneck,
New Jersey.
> Director since 2013.
James S. Tisch 4
President and Chief
Executive Offi cer, Loews
Corporation, diversifi ed
holding company,
New York, New York.
> Director since 2010.
James E. Rohr
Executive Chairman of the
Board and former Chief
Executive Offi cer, The PNC
Financial Services Group,
Inc., fi nancial services,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
> Director since 2013.
Robert W. Lane 1,2
Former Chairman of
the Board and Chief
Executive Offi cer,
Deere & Company,
agricultural, construction
and forestry equipment,
Moline, Illinois.
> Director since 2005.
Robert J. Swieringa 1
Professor of Accounting
and former Anne and
Elmer Lindseth Dean,
Johnson Graduate
School of Management,
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York.
> Director since 2002.
Mary L. Schapiro 4
Vice Chairman, Advisory
Board of Promontory
Financial Group, consulting
fi rm, and former Chairman,
U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission,
Washington, D.C.
> Director since 2013.
Ann M. Fudge 3
Former Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive
Offi cer, Young & Rubicam
Group, global marketing
communications network,
New York, New York.
> Director since 1999.
John J. Brennan 4
Chairman Emeritus
and Senior Advisor, The
Vanguard Group, Inc.,
global investment
management, Malvern,
Pennsylvania.
> Director since 2012.
Marijn E. Dekkers 2,5
Chairman of the Board of
Management, Bayer AG,
global healthcare, crop
science and material
science, Leverkusen,
Germany.
> Director since 2012.
W. Geoffrey Beattie 1,4
Chief Executive Offi cer,
Generation Capital,
investment company;
former Chief Executive
Offi cer, The Woodbridge
Company; former Deputy
Chairman, Thomson
Reuters; Toronto, Canada.
> Director since 2009.
Ralph S. Larsen 1,3,6
Former Chairman of
the Board and Chief
Executive Offi cer, Johnson
& Johnson, pharmaceutical,
medical and consumer
products, New Brunswick,
New Jersey.
> Director since 2002.
James I. Cash, Jr. 2,5
Emeritus James E. Robison
Professor of Business
Administration,
Harvard Graduate School
of Business, Boston,
Massachusetts.
> Director since 1997.
Douglas A. Warner III 1,2,3
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.
> Director since 1992.
Susan Hockfi eld
3,5
President Emerita
and Professor of
Neuroscience,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
> Director since 2006.
James J. Mulva 1,5
Former Chairman
of the Board and Chief
Executive Offi cer,
ConocoPhillips, international
integrated-energy
company, Houston, Texas.
> Director since 2008.
Rochelle B. Lazarus 3
Chairman Emeritus and
former Chief Executive
Offi cer, Ogilvy &
Mather Worldwide,
global marketing
communications company,
New York, New York.
> Director since 2000.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
(pictured on page 1)
Chairman of the
Board and Chief
Executive Offi cer, General
Electric Company, Fairfi eld,
Connecticut.
> Director since 2000.
1. Audit Committee
2. Management
Development and
Compensation
Committee
3. Governance and Public
Affairs Committee
4. Risk Committee
5. Science and
Technology Committee
6. Presiding Director
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