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GE Board Director John J. Brennan
John J. Brennan
Independent Director

Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor, The Vanguard Group, Inc. Director since 2012.

Mr. Brennan is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He joined Vanguard in 1982, was elected chief financial officer in 1985, president in 1989, and served as chief executive officer from 1996 to 2008 and chairman from 1998 through 2009. He has been chairman emeritus and senior advisor to Vanguard since 2010. Mr. Brennan is a director of The Hanover Insurance Group, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, LPL Investment Holdings, and lead governor of the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority Board of Governors. He is a trustee of The Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program and the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Brennan also served as chairman of the Financial Accounting Foundation.