GE Capital Fleet Services Promotes Marian Powell to Expanded Senior Vice President Position in North America

    MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 2 GE Capital Fleet Services has
announced the promotion of Marian Powell to the position of Senior Vice
President of its North America Core Commercial organization with
responsibilities for all Sales, Marketing, Product Management and E-Business
functions.
    Powell most recently led E-Business, Marketing and Product Management for
Fleet Services and previously directed the North American Operations group.
Powell has held several key senior management positions within her 14-year
career at GE including leadership posts at GE Capital Railcar Services in
Human Resources, Advertising, Marketing, Customer Service and Quality.
    Powell holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art
and an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago.
    Rich Bacon, who previously led North American Sales for Fleet Services,
has been promoted to lead sales and marketing for GE Transportation Systems'
Global Signaling Business in Blue Springs, Mo.  Bacon has 25 years of
experience in various GE sales and commercial leadership positions.

    With headquarters in Eden Prairie, Minn., GE Capital Fleet Services is one
of the largest fleet management companies in the world with more than
1.2 million commercial cars and trucks under lease and service management.  It
has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Australia,
and New Zealand.  GE Capital, with assets of more than US$370 billion, is a
global, diversified financial services company grouped into six key operating
segments comprised of 24 businesses.  A wholly-owned subsidiary of General
Electric Company, GE Capital, based in Stamford, Conn., provides a variety of
consumer services, such as credit cards and life and auto insurance;
mid-market financing; specialized financing; specialty insurance; equipment
management, and specialized services, to businesses and individuals in
47 countries around the world.  GE is a diversified services, technology and
manufacturing company with operations worldwide.

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