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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, March 13, 2006 6:11:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Maryrose Sylvester, a GE veteran, is tapped to take the helm of the industrial control systems company, succeeding Jeff Garwood, who is now running GE Water & Process Technologies. |
As part of its ongoing executive seasoning initiative, GE has named Maryrose Sylvester president and CEO of GE Fanuc, the industrial control systems division that is a joint venture of GE and Fanuc Ltd. of Japan, Managing Automation has learned. Sylvester, 39, succeeds Jeff Garwood, who was named president and CEO of GE Water & Process Technologies, a supplier of water, wastewater, and process systems solutions. Since 2002, Sylvester had been president of GE Quartz, a global business that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells fused quartz and boron nitride products for semiconductor, lighting, electronic, fiber optic, and industrial applications. The appointment was announced internally last month without any formal public disclosure, a GE Fanuc spokesperson said. One possible explanation for this: GE Fanuc has become a proving ground of sorts for up-and-coming GE executives, industry observers have noted. [Click to continue] |
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