| Intro | American business executive |
| A.K.A. | John Flannery |
| Is |
Businessperson Business executive |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Business |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1962, Alexandria |
| Age: | 58 years |
John L. Flannery (born 1962) is an American business executive who is the CEO of General Electric and will become Chairman on January 1, 2018.
Early life and education
John L. Flannery was born in 1962 in Alexandria, Virginia. The son of a banking executive at FDIC Corporation, he and his two older sisters lived in Alexandria until 1971, when they moved to West Hartford, Connecticut where his father became president of a small bank. He graduated from Northwest Catholic High School in 1979. Flannery received a bachelor’s degree in finance from the Fairfield University Dolan School of Business in 1983. Flannery later went to business school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a MBA from the Wharton School of Business in 1987.
Career
Flannery began working at General Electric (GE) in 1987. He was later a leader of GE’s deals team. Among other roles, he worked internationally “cutting deals buying and selling portfolios of undervalued assets,” and he led the acquisition of Alstom SA’s power business for $17 billion, which was GE’s biggest industrial acquisition in its history. He began working for GE Capital in 1997 in Latin America, and GE moved him to Asia in 2005. Appointed head of GE’s business in India, in 2009 he moved to India and began running GE’s profit-and-loss statement for the country. In 2013, he became the leader of GE’s business development team, running “ran mergers and acquisitions.” In 2014, he began leading GE’s health care unit. He is tapped to become the CEO of GE on August 1, 2017.
Personal life
Based in Chicago as of June 2017, in August he will be based instead in Boston. Flannery is married, with three children and a dog named after Mookie Betts. He is an ardent Red Sox fan, and his hobbies include reading, golf, and music. He is a fan of the Allman Brothers, and a fan of authors such as Atul Gawande and J. D. Vance.