Jeffrey Immelt to Give Commencement Address at Hamilton College

General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to Give Commencement Address
Jeffrey Immelt P'10, chairman and chief executive officer of General Electric Company (GE), will deliver the Commencement address to the Class of 2010 on Sunday, May 23. Immelt has had a tumultuous, but successful stint at GE thus far. His first years were difficult – he took command four days before the 9/11 terrorist attack in 2001, and he led GE through the recession at the turn of the century and the Enron collapse (when the public became increasingly skeptical of CEOs of large corporations). Immelt has now been CEO at GE for over eight years, and financial magazine Barron's has named him one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times. He also serves on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.