GE: Lynn Calpeter, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, NBC Universal, Biography

Lynn Calpeter is executive vice president and chief financial officer of NBC Universal, a role she has held since May 2004. She is responsible for overseeing NBC Universal's financial planning and operations and plays a key role in the company's strategic business initiatives. She reports directly to Jeff Zucker, the chief executive officer of NBC Universal.

Prior to this role, Calpeter served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of NBC since July 2003. Before that, she was chief financial officer of the NBC Television Stations Division from 1999 to 2001, after which she served as vice president of the GE Corporate Audit Staff in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Calpeter is a veteran GE executive, having joined the company in 1986 through the Financial Management Program after college. Following the Financial Management Program, Calpeter spent six years on the GE Corporate Audit Staff, where she was involved in several operational and financial audits at a number of GE businesses, including Aircraft Engines, Plastics and NBC.

In 1993, Calpeter joined GE Plastics, where she served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in her appointment in 1998 as Manager, GEP Global PSI.

Calpeter is a graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in Business Management and Applied Economics. Her outside interests include golf, softball, mountain biking, theater and music.