Early life and education
ohn L. Flannery was born in 1962[1] in Alexandria, Virginia.[2] The son of a banking executive at FDIC Corporation,[2] 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.[2] He graduated from Northwest Catholic High School[3] in 1979.[4] Flannery received a bachelor's degree in finance[5] from the Fairfield University Dolan School of Business[2] in 1983.[6] Flannery later went to business school at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a MBA from the Wharton School of Business[2] in 1987.
Career
Flannery began working at General Electric (GE) in 1987.[2][1] He was later a leader of GE's deals team.[1] 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.[2] Appointed head of GE's business in India,[1] 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.[2] He was tapped to become the CEO of GE on August 1, 2017.
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