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Jeff IMMELT2009 ranking: 38
Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey R. Immelt (b.1956) took over the reins at General Electric in 2001 from the near-legendary Jack Welch. A native of Cincinnati Ohio he studied Applied Mathematics at Dartmouth College before earning an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He joined GE in 1982 and eventually rose through GE’s varied operational fields to the position of senior Vice ...