General Electric’s general counsel Brackett Denniston III announced his retirement on LinkedIn on Tuesday and welcomed his successor, Alex Dimitrief, who is known at the $150 billion conglomerate as the general counsel of GE Capital.
“It’s a momentous day for me,” Denniston wrote in a note that he published among his LinkedIn connections. “I posted here what I shared with my GE friends and colleagues today.” (Below is Denniston’s note, published in full. Click here for our follow-up interview with Denniston.)
Denniston had been general counsel of GE for 11 years and manned its legal department through growth, turbulence and ...