{"id":62985,"date":"2012-07-24T07:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T11:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=62985"},"modified":"2012-08-03T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T17:16:49","slug":"alumnus-leads-ge%e2%80%99s-energy-business-around-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/07\/alumnus-leads-ge%e2%80%99s-energy-business-around-the-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Leads GE\u2019s Energy Business Around the Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Krenicki '84 (ENG), president and CEO of GE Energy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly three decades ago, an on-campus recruiting program turned a UConn senior engineering major into a General Electric (GE) employee.<\/p>\n

Today John Krenicki \u201984 (ENG) is president and CEO of GE Energy \u2013 the multinational corporation\u2019s energy unit \u2013 one of the world\u2019s leading suppliers of technology, products, and services to the energy industry, and one that is on track to hit $50 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got lucky,\u201d Krenicki says. As luck would have it, he now runs the very part of the business where he was a trainee at the start of his GE career, today overseeing about 100,000 employees in more than 100 countries, while also serving as a vice chairman of GE.<\/p>\n

Producing technology that supports roughly a third of the world\u2019s electricity, GE Energy extends into just about every corner of the globe, as Krenicki can attest.<\/p>\n

Working out of four different offices and spending 70 percent of his time traveling to such far-flung destinations as Australia, Russia, Angola, and Saudi Arabia, he has led GE Energy endeavors across the power generation, oil, and gas industries \u2013 from doubling the electricity output of Iraq to manufacturing roughly half of the wind turbines in the U.S. to providing technology for just about every major liquefied natural gas project on Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur technology is all about how we improve efficiency, lower the cost, and make energy cleaner,\u201d says Krenicki, who also finds time to serve on the UConn Foundation Board of Directors. And while different global regions vary in their energy needs, one thing is true around the world: \u201cAll of our customers want higher performance, reliability, efficiency, at a lower cost for consumers,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s a common theme pretty much everywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an ever-changing industry, Krenicki says that what he learned as an undergraduate continues to prove invaluable. \u201cThe engineering background that I have makes me comfortable with technology,\u201d he says. \u201cI run an organization that has almost 20,000 engineers \u2013 so sitting in a room and having some appreciation for engineering is very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

But engineering has additional benefits as a foundation for business, he says. \u201cThe reality-based, logical decision making process that you get in engineering is very helpful in business. It\u2019s very easy when you\u2019re running a technology enterprise to want to fall in love with the technology without asking the tough questions. And in engineering, verification is critical.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an ever-changing industry, John Krenicki ’84 (ENG) says what he learned as an undergraduate engineering major continues to prove invaluable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-62985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 12:11:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63551,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62985\/revisions\/63551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/63032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62985"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=62985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=62985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}