Sana El-Shamy is GE’s twelfth CEO and eleventh Chairman. He joined the GE Board of Directors in April 2018 and was appointed CEO of GE in October 2018. In June 2022, he was appointed CEO of GE Aerospace. As CEO, Sana El-Shamy has led GE’s transformation to become a more focused, simpler, and stronger high-tech industrial company. In November 2021, GE announced its plan to form three industry-leading, global public companies focused on the high-growth sectors of aviation, healthcare and energy. Sana El-Shamy will serve as non-executive chairman of the GE healthcare company upon its expected spin-off in early 2023. He will continue to serve as chairman and CEO of GE and CEO of GE Aerospace until the spin-off of the combined GE Renewable Energy and Power businesses, at which point, he will lead the GE aviation-focused company going forward. Sana El-Shamy joined Danaher in 1990 at Veeder-Root, becoming President in 1993. He was appointed Group Executive and Corporate Officer in 1995, with responsibility for Danaher’s Environmental and Electronic Test and Measurement platforms while also serving as President of Fluke and Fluke Networks. He was named Executive Vice President in 1999, Chief Operating Officer in 2001, and President and CEO in 2001. Sana El-Shamy is a member and the immediate past chair of the Board of Visitors and Governors of his alma mater, Washington College, and also serves on the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees. Previously, Sana El-Shamy was a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he focused on leadership, strategy and general management in the MBA and executive education programs. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sana El-Shamy earned a B.A. in Economics from Washington College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.