{"72182":{"#nid":"72182","#data":{"type":"news","title":"General Electric CEO Immelt to Address Graduates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of General Electric, will deliver the address at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 227th commencement ceremony for master\u0027s and undergraduate students. The event will begin at 9 a. m. on Saturday, May 5, at the Georgia Dome.  Approximately 2,200 students are expected to graduate in the May 5 ceremony and a May 3 Ph. D. ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EImmelt is the ninth chairman in General Electric\u0027s 128-year history and was appointed to his post in September 2001.   He had previously served as president and chairman-elect of General Electric (GE) beginning in November 2000.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EImmelt began his GE career in 1982. Over the last 24 years, he has held a series of global leadership roles in GE\u0027s plastics, appliance and medical businesses. He became an officer of GE in 1989 and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2005 and 2006, Barron\u0027s named Immelt one of the World\u0027s Best CEOs. Under his leadership, GE has been named \u0022America\u0027s Most Admired Company\u0022 three times in a poll conducted by FORTUNE magazine and the world\u0027s most respected company in polls conducted by Barron\u0027s and the Financial Times.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChairman of The Business Council, Immelt serves on the boards of three non-profit organizations: Catalyst, devoted to advancing women in business; Robin Hood, focused on addressing poverty in New York City; and the New York Federal Reserve Bank.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EImmelt holds a bachelor\u0027s degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College (1978) and an MBA from Harvard University (1982). He and his wife, Andrea, have one daughter.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ray Orbach, Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy, will address the Ph.D. graduates during a Thursday evening ceremony on May 3, 2007.  The Ph. D. ceremony will be held in the Ferst Center for the Arts on the Georgia Tech campus at 7 p.m.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Ray Orbach, Undersecretary for Science, Department of Energy, will address the Ph.D. graduates"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of General Electric, will deliver the address at the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 227th commencement ceremony for master\u0027s and undergraduate students. The event will begin at 9 a. m. on Saturday, May 5, at the Georgia Dome.  Approximately 2,200 students are expected to graduate in the May 5 ceremony and a May 3 Ph. D. ceremony.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Tech graduates will celebrate with two ceremonies"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2007-05-03 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:18","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"72183":{"id":"72183","type":"image","title":"Jeffrey Immelt, CEO, General Electric","body":null,"created":"1449177434","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:14","changed":"1475894651","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:11"},"72184":{"id":"72184","type":"image","title":"Dr. Ray Orbach, Undersecretary for Science, Depart","body":null,"created":"1449177434","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:17:14","changed":"1475894651","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:11"}},"media_ids":["72183","72184"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/commencement\/","title":"Commencement Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"}],"keywords":[{"id":"627","name":"commencement"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"676","name":"graduates"},{"id":"629","name":"graduation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}