Lynn Calpeter was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NBC Universal in May 2004. She is responsible for overseeing NBC Universal's financial planning and operations and plays a key role in the company's strategic business initiatives. She reports directly to Bob Wright, the chairman and chief executive officer of NBC Universal.
Calpeter had served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of NBC since July 2003. Before that she had been chief financial officer of the NBC Television Stations Division from 1999 to 2001, after which she served as vice president of the GE Corporate Audit Staff in Fairfield, Connecticut.
Calpeter is a veteran GE executive, having joined the company in 1986 after graduating from college. After graduating from GE's Financial Management Program, Calpeter spent six years on GE's Corporate Audit Staff, where she was involved in several operational and financial audits at a number of GE businesses, including Aircraft Engines, Plastics, and NBC. In 1993, Calpeter joined GE Plastics, where she served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility, culminating in her appointment in 1998 as Manager, GEP Global PSI.
Lynn Calpeter is a graduate of Cornell University with a B.S. in business management and applied economics.
And in GE, we have a philosophy that starts with the customers and moves all of those things from the customer forward, are the kinds of things that I focus on today, but learned very early in my career, most finance people don't get any opportunity unfortunately to have customer-facing jobs, and fo...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Lynn Calpeter States Desire For Wealth and Security Have Driven Many of Her Professional Decisions
Lynn Calpeter Discusses High School Background and Decision To Be Pre-Med or Pre-Vet At Cornell
Lynn Calpeter Discusses First Experience With Failure During Freshman Year At Cornell University
Lynn Calpeter Discusses First Professional Experience in Financial Management Training Program at GE
Lynn Calpeter Discusses Experience Within GE Audit Group and Progression To Executive Level Within GE
Lynn Calpeter States Advantages To Having Access To All GE Strategies From Within GE Audit Group
Lynn Calpeter States Importance of Addressing Conflict Behind The Scenes and Not In The Middle of A Meeting
Lynn Calpeter Discusses Call From Jeff Immelt Asking Her To Return To Head Up Audit Staff
Lynn Calpeter States Importance of Having Integrity And Being Seen As A Role Model To Women
Lynn Calpeter States Reality of Long Work Week But Importance of Leaving Work At Work As Well
