Jeff Immelt was the ninth Chairman of GE and served as CEO for sixteen years. He has been named one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times by
Barron's. During his tenure as CEO, GE was named "America's Most Admired Company" by
Fortune magazine and one of "The World's Most Respected Companies" in polls by
Barron's and
Financial Times. Immelt has received fifteen honorary degrees and numerous awards for business leadership and chaired the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness under the Obama administration. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a lecturer at Stanford University. Immelt earned a BA in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University. He and his wife have one daughter. Amy Wallace is a writer based in California. She splits her time between magazines and books. Her magazine work has appeared in
GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and other national publications. Two of her profiles--"Hollywood's Information Man" (
Los Angeles, 2001) and "Walking Time Bomb" (
New York, 2019)--have been National Magazine Award finalists. An archive of her work can be found at
Amy-Wallace.com. In 2014, she collaborated with Ed Catmull, then the president of Pixar Animation and Disney Animation, on his
New York Times bestselling book
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. Her second collaborative book, this one with former CEO of General Electric
Jeff Immelt, is
Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company.
