FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE today announces the appointment of four new company officers.
Diane Cooper, 47, is President & CEO, Equipment Finance Services, Capital Solutions, GE Commercial Finance. In July 2005, Cooper became President & CEO, Franchise Finance, Capital Solutions. Prior to that, she was President & CEO, Storage USA, also a component of GE Commercial Finance. In 1999, she was Senior Vice President, Card Services, within JCPenny Credit Services, a GE Money Company. Cooper received her Masters in Business Administration from Baker University in Kansas in 1995 and her B.A. in Business Administration from Baker in 1993.
Alex Dimitrief, 48, is Vice President and Senior Counsel, Litigation and Legal Policy. Dimitrief joined the company February 1, 2007. He joined GE from Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, where he has been since 1986 and became a partner in 1991. His practice has spanned many industries, jurisdictions and subjects, including regulatory matters, securities, IP, product liability, environmental and bankruptcy cases. Dimitrief graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1985 where he was Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his B.A. summa cum laude with a focus on Economics & Political Science from Yale College in 1981.
Lorenzo Simonelli, 33, is President & CEO, Consumer & Industrial, Europe, Middle East & Africa, GE Industrial. Simonelli assumed this role in January 2007. Prior to this role, he was General Manager, Product Management for GE Consumer & Industrial, a role he held from 2005 to 2007. Simonelli joined GE in 1994 and graduated from the Company's Financial Management Program (FMP) in 1997. He was a member of GE's Corporate Audit Staff from 1997 to 2002, rising to the role of Executive Audit Manager. Simonelli joined GE Consumer & Industrial (C&I) in 2002 and held a number of finance leadership roles including Global FP&A manager, and Chief Financial Officer for the Americas pole. Simonelli graduated from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom with a B.S in Business Administration, Economics and Marketing in 1994.
David E. Tucker, 46, is Chief Operating Officer, VetcoGray, a newly acquired business of GE Oil & Gas. Prior to this role, he was General Manager, Power Service, GE Energy. From 2001 to 2004, Tucker was General Manager, Business Development, GE Energy. Before that, he held a number of finance roles including Vice President, GE Capital Audit Staff, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, GECS Equipment Management Service, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Vendor Financial Services within GE Commercial Finance, and Executive Audit manager with the Corporate Audit Staff. Tucker graduated from Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts with a B.S. in Finance in 1984 and GE's Financial Management Program (FMP) in 1987.
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