H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.

H. Lawrence (Larry) Culp, Jr., is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GE and Chief Executive Officer of GE Aerospace. Larry is GE’s twelfth CEO and eleventh Chairman. He joined the GE Board of Directors in April 2018 and was appointed CEO of GE in October 2018. In June 2022, he was appointed CEO of GE Aerospace. As CEO, Larry has led GE’s transformation to become a more focused, simpler, and stronger high-tech industrial company. Prior to joining GE, Larry served as the President and CEO of Danaher Corporation from 2000 to 2014, and during his tenure the company increased both its revenues and its market capitalization five-fold. Investors and analysts consistently ranked him as one of the top CEOs in annual Institutional Investor surveys, Harvard Business Review named Larry one of the Top 50 CEOs in the world and, Barron’s has named him one of the Top 25 CEOs in the world four times since 2020. Larry is a member and the immediate past chair of the Board of Visitors and Governors of his alma mater, Washington College, and also serves on the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees. Previously, Larry was a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he focused on leadership, strategy and general management in the MBA and executive education programs.