GE’s Board Has Elected Marijn E. Dekkers, Chairman, Bayer, AG

  GE’s Board Has Elected Marijn E. Dekkers, Chairman, Bayer, AG

               Former GE scientist with broad global experience

Business Wire

FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- June 12, 2012

The Board of Directors of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) has elected
Marijn E. Dekkers, chairman of the board of management of Bayer, AG, as a GE
director. He was elected by the GE Board at its meeting on June 8, 2012.

“Marijn Dekkers returns to GE with a keen global perspective sharpened by deep
experience in science and business in the US and around the world,” said GE
Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. “As GE continues its focus on advanced
technology and global growth, his insights will be invaluable. I am proud to
welcome Marijn back to GE.”

Dekkers is an independent director under the New York Stock Exchange listing
standards and GE’s independence guidelines. Dekkers’ election brings GE’s
board to 17 members, 15 of whom are independent.

Bayer, headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a global healthcare, crop
science and material science company with more than 110,000 employees. In
addition to his responsibilities at Bayer, Dekkers, 54, is vice president,
German Chemical Industry Association and a member of the Executive Committee
of the Federation of German Industry. He was previously president and CEO of
Thermo Fisher Scientific and chief operating officer of Thermo Electron. He
began his professional career in 1985 as a GE scientist at GE’s corporate
research center in Niskayuna, New York. At GE, he wrote 40 scientific articles
and authored 30 patents.

Dekkers holds a B.SC. from the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) in
chemistry and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Eindhoven
(Netherlands) in chemical engineering.

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