Chris Richmond

Chris has spent the past thirty years in various Executive Leadership positions in a variety of companies and industries. Most recently, he spent eleven years at The General Electric Capital Corporation, where he led three different businesses. From 1994- 2001, he was the CEO of The Commercial

Equipment Financing business, a global leasing company with sales and operations in 18 countries including The U.S, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, China, Australia and Brazil. With $75 billion in portfolio assets and $30 billion in annual sales, CEF is the eighth largest business in The General Electric Company. Previously, Chris started and was the first CEO of GE Capital’s Equity Investment Business. Chris was appointed an Officer of The General Electric Company in 1997.

Chris’s prior experience includes three years as the President and COO of Syska and

Hennessey Engineers in New York, the country’s largest mechanical/electrical consulting engineering firm. He also was the Executive Director of the Dormitory Authority of New York, which was the largest municipal bond issuer in the U.S. and provided $5 billion per year of financing and construction management to Public and Private Universities and Hospitals in New York State. After leaving General Electric, Chris was the CEO and then Chairman of a software company, e-Credit, in Boston.

Throughout his career, Chris has been responsible for managing large scale organizational change efforts, in two turnaround situations and then at General Electric, where he managed numerous change initiatives in a large, global services business, including six sigma, change acceleration and large scale acquisition integrations. He was also active in teaching at GE’s Leadership school in Crotonville, New York. He is a graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has an MBA from Boston University.