GE Healthcare announced that former Raytheon General Counsel Frank Jimenez will join the company this month to lead its legal and policy teams. With management support, Long is also focused on promoting diversity and inclusion in the corporate and advocacy profession. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are external online distributors of ALM`s extensive collection of current and archived versions of legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law clients may access and use ALM content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, New York Law Journal and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information. Raytheon Co., a major U.S. defense contractor, hired Jimenez as its general counsel in 2015. He played a key role in advising the company on its merger with United Technologies Corp., a mega-merger in the aerospace sector that ended in 2020. Earlier this year, Jimenez was appointed to the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., the largest U.S. military shipbuilder, which appointed a new legal captain in 2020. Long, formerly an intern at GE while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined GE Aviation in 2015 and was tasked with building a cohesive, intellectual property legal team. Boston-based GE unveiled plans in November to split into three separate companies covering aviation, energy and healthcare. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher advise GE on the proposed separation. In 2020, his team had more than 25 employees, both in the legal and engineering fields.
According to Long, it was like putting together a baseball championship team with the right mix of pitchers and position players, singles and home run hitters. Jimenez, who left Raytheon in December, will serve as senior general counsel for GE Healthcare. The division, which makes imaging scanners and other equipment, will be separated from GE`s aerospace and energy units as part of a plan to turn three companies into separate public companies. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher are advising GE on its healthcare spin-off, currently scheduled for 2023. Responsible for the development and execution of GE Aerospace`s business and legal strategy, commercial aerospace and defense, and leading GE Aerospace`s global legal, contractual and compliance organizations. After leaving MIT, he turned to management consulting, first at Andersen Consulting in San Francisco and then at Sapient in Chicago. A chance encounter put him in touch with Judge Kimberly Moore, an MIT graduate who became a law professor (Moore now sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit). She opened Long`s eyes to the value of law school by telling him that intellectual property was a crucial area of law that suited his technical training well. Technical expertise is not essential, but can be a differentiator. All members of the IP legal team must be fluent in the language of engineers, he adds.
He succeeds Michael McAlevey, who spent 24 years in various positions at the GE conglomerate. McAlevey left the company earlier this year to become general counsel at HCA Healthcare Inc. , a healthcare facility operator based in Nashville, Tennessee. Jimenez then held senior legal positions at Bunge Ltd., ITT Corp. and Xylem Inc., where he worked on spin-off companies. General Electric Co. announced Monday that Frank Jimenez will become general counsel for its health care company on Feb. 21, succeeding its recently deceased attorney general. Vice President and General Manager, Engineering Division General Electric Company – GE Transportation (main office) Mining 2901 East Lake Road Building 14 – 440 Erie, PA 16531. General Electric Company – GE Healthcare – GE Healthcare Life Sciences (Sweden) (Branch) Branch Sverige Bjorkgatan 30 Box 605 SE-751 25 Uppsala , Sweden + 46 771 400 600 General Electric Company – GE Capital Real Estate (UK) (Branch) 201 Talgarth Road Hammersmith London W6 8BJ , United Kingdom 44.2.07302.6300 In addition to appointing Barber to this role, GE has diversity directors for each of its business units. Long additions. «It takes a lot of thought to figure out what you`re looking for in terms of skills and emotional intelligence,» Long says.
«You can`t just look for clones of yourself.» «We really need to value experiences and perspectives that are different from the mainstream,» Long says, recalling his humble origins and rise to the position of intellectual property attorney and general engineering counsel at GE Aviation. «It requires recognizing and overcoming the implicit biases we all have.» General Electric Company – General Electric Capital Corporation – GE Consumer Finance Inc. (Branch) 950 Forrer Blvd. Kettering, OH 45420 – 1469 General Electric Company – GE Energy (United Kingdom) (Headquarters) No. 2, The Arena Downshire Way Bracknell RG12 1PU , United Kingdom +44-(0)-1344-460500 General Electric Company 1 River Road Schenectady, NY 12345 – 6999 General Electric Company – GE Canada (Head Office) 2300, Meadowvale Blvd. Mississauga, ON L5N 5P9 , Canada 905-858-5100 Responsible for global communications, media relations, financial communications and corporate reputation. General Electric Company – GE Appliances & Lighting (Main Office) Appliances Louisville, KY 40225 «I`m Exhibition A when it comes to showing the benefits of diversity,» he says.