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Jack Welch  

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  • Chief executive officer of General Electric Company Jack Welch was the seventh CEO of General Electric Company (GE) and, in terms of shareholder wealth created (over $300 billion), its greatest. Welch was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, the only child of a railroad conductor who did not finish high school and a very religious mother with a strong sense of justice. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Welch, Jack (b. 1935)]

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