"Here's this amateur guy who takes what he learned at GE, " he says, sounding like an unreconstructed corporate communicator.
He joined GE in 1985 as a software engineer and moved to Medical Systems in 1988.
He believes GE has the resources to buy leasing assets in Japan and lock up the market.
He said GE, Microsoft and Disney all started during a recession.
Last March, the GE's chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt, wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review where he announced that GE planned to add more than 1, 000 manufacturing jobs at its Louisville, Kentucky, facility - a manufacturing plant the company tried to sell only a few years ago during the depths of the recession.
He added that GE will continue to invest in India because the company--which began operations here in 1902 by installing a hydropower plant--is in the country for the long-haul.
GE, he points out, until the deal is signed and gets regulatory approval, which could take many months.
He didn't provide any details of GE's revenue in India, or what he expects to drive the 15%-20% revenue rise.
Unlike the Goldman warrants, which Buffett has already announced he would exercise, his GE warrants are nowhere near the money.
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Over the 80 or so quarters he was in charge, GE's profits grew so consistently they were almost a straight line.
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Why then does he have Jeff Immelt of GE, who has been accused of a lot of outsourcing, as the head of his Jobs Council?
Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, is being sued by GE Healthcare after he suggested at a conference in Oxford that one of the company's drugs might have potentially fatal side-effects.
He drew a parallel to GE's work with the aircraft industry, since many decades ago flying was considered a risky business, but the industry evolved so that even as the speed, distance and number of flights increased, overall safety improved greatly.
He became a vice president of GE in 1989, responsible for consumer services for GE Appliances.
But he said that he expects growth in all of GE's India businesses, including healthcare and aviation.
He became senior vice president of GE and president and chief executive officer of GE Medical Systems in 1996.
Two defectors say that when news of the departures broke in the trade press, Welch was so angry that he issued a new fiat: GE would no longer invest in funds run by ex-employees.
After grad school at the University of Minnesota and a stint at GE's labs, he ended up at Monsanto's Searle unit in St.
" Once Mr. Carson announced plans to retire from "The Tonight Show, " he joked in 1991: "GE already sold my parking spot to Fotomat.
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Ryder is no 20-something evangelist: hired by Amazon.com 18 months ago, he spent most of his career at GE Appliances and then at Honeywell's avionics group.
That could be a problem if the Federal Reserve asserts control over GE's lending operations, he said.
He designs life-saving, award-winning medical imaging equipment, MRI machines, and he's had a fantastic career at GE.
Nardelli worked at GE from 1971 through 2000 when he was passed over to succeed Welch as CEO.
He'd held several communications posts at GE, including a three-year stint writing speeches for Jack Welch in the late 1970s.
Prior to joining Kimco, CEO Dave Henry spent 23 years at GE Capital Real Estate, where he was senior vice president and CIO.
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He is out to convince big resinmakers like GE and Dow Chemical to let Great Lakes do the dirty work of blending their color, heat and light requirements into one pellet they can then add to polypropylene for car bumpers.
But like GE's Welch, Mittal thinks he can be just as efficient as the dot-coms at running his own exchange.
Bulriss doesn't pretend he can transform Great Lakes into a mini-GE.
He deftly sidestepped the financial crisis that nearly drove GE into insolvency, because UTC never built up a finance arm dependent upon commercial paper markets for funding.
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Jack Welch gave further impetus to the trend when he famously took General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) to greater profitability by dumping underperforming parts of his company instead of pouring resources into trying to save them.
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