Ron Pressman is president and CEO of GE Insurance, and chairman, president and CEO of GE Insurance Solutions, one of the world's largest reinsurance and insurance organizations.
In addition, Pressman serves as a member of the GE Corporate Executive Council reporting to GE CEO Jeff Immelt and as a director of GE Capital Services. He was elected an officer of the General Electric Company in 1993 and senior vice president in July 2000.
Pressman has held an array of roles in GE, leading GE Capital Real Estate as president and CEO from 1997 to 2000. Prior to that, he was CEO of GE Power Systems Europe and led several business units for GE Power Systems. In 1990 he assumed his first business leadership position as general manager of GE's Central and Eastern Europe operations based in London. Pressman began his career with GE in 1980. He currently chairs the Union Station Strategy Task Force in Kansas City and is vice chairman of the Kansas City Civic Council and a member of the boards of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Pathways to College and ABC (A Better Chance). He has served on the executive board of the National Realty Committee and Wharton Real Estate Business School, as a member of the Hamilton College Board of Trustees from 1994 to 1998, and as chairman of Roots and Wings, a U.K. mentoring program. Pressman graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, in 1980.