"There was always this rub between" GEChairman Jack Welch and GECapital Chief Executive Gary Wendt, Neal says.
The Wendt family, the trust of founder Richard Wendt, and employees will retain a majority position in the company.
Wendt quit in 1998, and Welch retired as chairman in September 2001, succeeded by current Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt.
Other casts have included Taxi star Judd Hirsch, George Wendt from Cheers, Jack Dee, Tim Healy and Frank Skinner.
"It's really a way of securing what you believe in, " says Wendt, who founded the Institute for Equality in Marriage in 1998.
She confirmed that the management team, headed by CEO Roderick Wendt, son of the founder Richard Wendt, will remain in place.
In 1987 Gary Wendt, head of GE Capital (then called GE Credit), tapped Neal to move to Stamford to sell financing for technical equipment.
The program has inspired two TV shows -- one of them, "The George Wendt Show, " ran for one season on CBS -- and at least two books.
In early October, Ambassador Alan Wendt of the State Department and the director of the Defense Technology Security Agency, William Rudman, made an important tour of European capitals.
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Gary Wendt, CEO of GE Capital during its heyday, once said to me that the secret of his success was the fear that his business could fall off a cliff at any moment.
If past practice is any guide, what passes for a decision-making process in the executive branch on such issues will authorize the enunciation by Ambassador Wendt of a general commitment to such flexibility.
They figured, for example, on both the Royal Commissions set up by the government with Lord Butler, the recently retired cabinet secretary, sitting on the one on the Lords and Robin Wendt on the one on long-term care of the elderly.
As Ambassador Alan Wendt, the State Department's senior official for technology transfer matters, prepares to depart for a series of consultations next week with key COCOM partners, the pressure is on to show an American willingness to be "flexible" on further decontrol proposals.
Wendt, Home Depot 's (nyse: HD - news - people ) Robert Nardelli and Stanley Works ' (nyse: SWK - news - people ) John Trani are examples of executives who left GE units for CEO positions elsewhere.
Meanwhile, for something more modern, detour to the Lionel Wendt Centre to examine the contemporary art on display, then, come nightfall, see the light-dressed silhouettes of the Seema Malakaya on Beira Lake, two island pavilions designed in 1985, one filled with bronze Thai Buddhas and the other centred around a sacred bodhi tree.
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