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Board members focus on the areas that are important to shareowners —
strategy, risk management, leadership development, and regulatory and compliance matters. In 2014, they received
briefi ngs on a variety of issues, including capital allocation and business development with a focus on Alstom,
risk management with a focus on GE Capital, business simplifi cation, emerging markets growth, leadership development,
technology excellence, IT and cybersecurity, strategy, advanced manufacturing, global research
and development 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)
THE GE BOARD
The GE Board held 14 meetings during 2014, including three meetings of the
independent directors of the Board. Each outside Board member is
expected to visit at least two GE businesses without the involvement of corporate
management in order to develop his or her own feel for the Company.
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.
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.
Andrea Jung 2,3,5
President & Chief
Executive Offi cer,
Grameen America, non-
profi t microfi nance, and
Former Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive
Offi cer, Avon Products,
Inc., beauty products,
New York, New York.
> Director since 1998.
James I. Cash, Jr. 2,5
Emeritus James E.
Robison Professor of
Business Administration,
Harvard Graduate School
of Business, Boston,
Massachusetts.
> Director since 1997.
John J. Brennan 2,3,4,6
Chairman Emeritus and
Senior Advisor, The
Vanguard Group, Inc.,
global investment
management, Malvern,
Pennsylvania.
> Director since 2012.
James E. Rohr 4
Former Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive
Offi cer, The PNC Financial
Services Group, 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.
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.
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.
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.
James S. Tisch
President and Chief
Executive Offi cer, Loews
Corporation, diversifi ed
holding company,
New York, New York.
> Director since 2010.
Susan Hockfi eld
3,5
President Emerita
and Professor of
Neuroscience,
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
> Director since 2006.
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 4
Chief Executive Offi cer,
Generation Capital,
investment company, and
former Chief Executive
Offi cer, The Woodbridge
Company, and former
Deputy Chairman,
Thomson Reuters,
information technology
company, Toronto,
Canada.
> Director since 2009.
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.
Francisco D’Souza 1,5
Chief Executive Offi cer,
Cognizant Technology
Solutions Corporation,
global information
technology, consulting
and business process
outsourcing, Teaneck,
New Jersey.
> Director since 2013.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
(not pictured;
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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