{"id":7864,"date":"2016-07-23T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=7864"},"modified":"2017-02-11T22:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T22:25:31","slug":"ge-appoints-new-president-and-ceo-for-its-power-conversion-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/ge-appoints-new-president-and-ceo-for-its-power-conversion-business\/%20","title":{"rendered":"GE Appoints New President and CEO for its Power Conversion Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azeez-Mohammededit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7865\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azeez-Mohammededit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Azeez Mohammededit\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azeez-Mohammededit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Azeez-Mohammededit.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>GE has announced that Azeez Mohammed has been appointed President &amp; CEO of GE Energy Connections\u2019 Power Conversion business, effective July 11, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Azeez comes to Power Conversion from his most recent role as President and CEO, of GE\u2019s Power Services business for Middle East and Africa. He was instrumental in leading GE\u2019s digital transformation, helping to position the organization as the world\u2019s foremost digital-industrial company by launching innovative customer solutions in the power and LNG sectors. Today, he brings that experience to the Power Conversion business where he will lead the company to reinforce its digital capacity while bringing a new focus on research and development, increasing the company\u2019s ability to provide innovative solutions to customers for electrifying tomorrow\u2019s energy.<\/p>\n<p>A seasoned leader with a strong technological background, Azeez has held a series of roles in engineering, finance and business management in GE Power and GE Corporate worldwide. His other business management engagements include leadership positions in Latin America and the Saudi &amp; Gulf regions. He holds master and doctorate degrees from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras all in Mechanical Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Responsible for continuing to build the Power Conversion business, which drives the electric transformation of the world\u2019s energy infrastructure across multiple industries, Azeez will notably strengthen the capacity of Power Conversion\u2019s service network especially in emerging markets. Power Conversion is electrifying tomorrow\u2019s energy with efficient advanced motor, drive and control technologies allowing customers to evolve their industrial processes for a cleaner, more productive future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAzeez brings both global and operational expertise to our business and will be a great add to the Energy Connections leadership team. He will be driving commercial and operational excellence for the Power Conversion business and its customers,\u201d said Russell Stokes President and CEO of GE Energy Connections and Senior Vice President of GE.<\/p>\n<p>Azeez will be based at Power Conversion\u2019s headquarters in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GE has announced that Azeez Mohammed has been appointed President &amp; CEO of GE Energy Connections\u2019 Power Conversion business, effective July 11, 2016. Azeez comes to Power Conversion from his most recent role as President and CEO, of GE\u2019s Power Services business for Middle East and Africa. He was instrumental in leading GE\u2019s digital transformation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7867,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions\/7867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}