Full Name
Larry Culp
Job Title
Chairman and CEO
Company (Please input the full name of your organization)
GE Aerospace
Speaker Bio
Larry 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 led GE’s transformation into three public companies – GE HealthCare, GE Vernova and GE Aerospace. GE HealthCare spun off in January of 2023 and Larry serves as non-executive chairman of the company. He continued to serve as chairman and CEO of GE and CEO of GE Aerospace until the spin-off of GE Vernova in April of 2024. Under Larry’s leadership, GE reduced debt by more than $100 billion. He championed lean, running the company with a focus on customer value and driving improvements in safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Larry also transformed of GE’s portfolio, including completing the dispositions of GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), BioPharma, GE Lighting, and GE Transportation. 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. Larry joined Danaher in 1990 at Veeder-Root, becoming President in 1993. He was appointed Group Executive and Corporate Officer in 1995, with responsibility for Danaher’s Environmental and Electronic Test and Measurement platforms while also serving as President of Fluke and Fluke Networks. He was named Executive Vice President in 1999, Chief Operating Officer in 2001, and President and CEO in 2001. Investors and analysts have consistently ranked Larry 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 repeatedly named him one of the Top 25 CEOs in the world. Larry is a member and the immediate past chair of the Board of Visitors and Governors of his alma mater, Washington College, and he 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. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Larry earned a B.A. in Economics from Washington College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.