John L. Flannery (born 1962) is an American business executive who is the CEO of General Electric and will become Chairman on January 1, 2018
Flannery began working at General Electric (GE) in 1987.[5][4] He was later a leader of GE's deals team.[4] Among other roles, he worked internationally "cutting deals buying and selling portfolios of undervalued assets," and he led the acquisition of Alstom SA's power business for $17 billion, which was GE's biggest industrial acquisition in its history. He began working for GE Capital in 1997 in Latin America, and GE moved him to Asia in 2005.[5] Appointed head of GE's business in India,[4] in 2009 he moved to India and began running GE's profit-and-loss statement for the country. In 2013, he became the leader of GE's business development team, running "ran mergers and acquisitions." In 2014, he began leading GE's health care unit.[5] He is tapped to become the CEO of GE on August 1, 2017