Leadership : Our Company : GE

Dmitri Stockton is President and CEO of GE Asset Management, the investment management arm of GE and a leading global asset manager with $115 billion in assets under management (as of December 31, 2011). In this role he leads a team of over 400 employees and oversees the management of portfolios for a wide variety of clients—including plan sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments and other institutional investors around the world—as well as those of GE’s primary U.S. pension plan and other benefit programs. Mr. Stockton is a Senior Vice President of GE Company and a member of GE’s Corporate Executive Council.

A 25-year GE veteran, Mr. Stockton most recently served as President and CEO of GE Capital’s Global Banking unit, leading GE’s global banking and consumer lending businesses and joint venture relationships in over 20 countries. In this role he oversaw a $5.5 billion business consisting of majority owned banks in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, retail bank joint ventures in Asia and Latin America, as well as consumer finance platforms in Europe.

Mr. Stockton joined GE in 1987 on the Financial Management Program. He then entered GE Capital’s Commercial Real Estate division in 1991, where he held a series of sales roles, rising to the level of Managing Director leading the distressed debt acquisition and tax-exempt bond financing segments.

In 1997, Mr. Stockton was named Senior Vice President and Chief Risk Officer for GE Mortgage Corporation where he led the risk management of a U.S. based mortgage servicing unit and the global mortgage insurance operation. Mr. Stockton was appointed Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for GE Mortgage Insurance in 1999 and a Vice President of GE Capital in that same year.

In 2001, Mr. Stockton was appointed CEO for GE Capital Bank in Switzerland. From 2005 to 2008, he was President and CEO of GE Money’s Central and Eastern European Banking Group. He was promoted to be a Vice President of GE Company in 2005.

Mr. Stockton holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Accounting from North Carolina A&T State University, graduating in 1986. He is a member of the Executive Leadership Council, U.S. Institute, and the Pension Managers Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Council at North Carolina A&T State University School of Business and Economics and on the Board of GE Foundation. He is a former board member of Garanti Bank in Turkey, Bank BPH in Poland and BAC Credomatic Bank in Central America.