Susan Flanagan is President & CEO of GE Energy Financial Services (“GE EFS”), which operates within GE’s energy portfolio with GE’s Renewable Energy, Power and Digital businesses. Susan is responsible for leading GE EFS’ investment activities in power and renewable projects, helping GE to deliver comprehensive and innovative customer solutions. She was named as an officer of the General Electric Company in 2019.

Susan has been with GE for 17 years. Prior to her role as CEO, she was Global Power Leader at GE EFS, overseeing investments in power projects across North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East Northern Africa, and Turkey (MENAT), Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. During her time at GE, Susan served as manager of a $2.5 billion portfolio of assets and structured and closed several billion dollars of energy infrastructure investments. She worked in Beijing, supporting GE’s joint venture with China’s State Grid.

Earlier in her career, Susan worked in the energy mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance teams at Ernst & Young, DPL Inc., PricewaterhouseCoopers, and the Long Island Lighting Company. She began her career as an Engineer in GE Aviation’s Aerothermal Design & Technology Group in Evansdale Ohio.

Susan holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University, a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Master of Business Administration from New York University.

Gaurav Raniwala is Managing Director and Global Head of Renewable Energy at GE Energy Financial Services (“GE EFS”), which has invested more than $19 billion in renewable energy globally since 2004 and is a leading tax equity investor in the U.S. GE EFS is part of GE’s energy portfolio, which includes GE’s Renewable Energy, Power and Digital businesses.  In his role, Gaurav leads the team responsible for underwriting, structuring, and managing investments in global renewable projects. He also serves on the Board of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).

Gaurav has a wealth of expertise in underwriting energy investments, including equity and loan transactions, and in leading multi-national and cross-cultural teams. Prior to his current role, Gaurav held the position of Business Partner at GE EFS, where he utilized his extensive underwriting expertise to facilitate financing solutions for GE Renewable Energy equipment projects and help the GE business unit grow its global market share. Prior to that, Gaurav led the US power and renewable energy underwriting team responsible for structuring, negotiating, and managing energy transactions.  

Gaurav joined GE in 1995.  During his time at GE, he served as Chief Risk Officer of GE Capital’s Franchise Finance business based in Scottsdale, where he had oversight of leveraged lending and sale leaseback business. He also spent more than five years in the United Kingdom and in Spain and led the telecom and media underwriting team for GE Capital Europe.

Gaurav has a Master’s of Business Administration in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in India.

Patrick Leahy is Managing Director and Global Power Leader for GE Energy Financial Services (“GE EFS”). GE EFS operates within GE’s energy portfolio with GE’s Gas Power, Renewable Energy, Nuclear and Digital businesses. Here, Patrick leads the team responsible for originating, underwriting, and managing investments in global gas-fired power generation projects, including carbon capture and sequestration. With a foundation of more than 45GW of thermal power investments, the EFS Global Power team provides project development, structuring and execution support to customers, partnering to deliver reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy solutions. 

Patrick has more than 20 years of experience in energy project finance. with expertise in structured transactions, tax equity, project development and leading multi-national and cross-cultural teams. Prior to his current role, he led the U.S. Power and Renewable Energy Execution team, which invested over $1 billion annually in renewable energy transactions. He joined GE EFS in 2006.

Patrick is a CFA Charterholder (Chartered Financial Analyst) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and a master’s degree in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. 

Guto Davies is Managing Director and Head of GE Energy Financial Services’ Global Public Capital business, which is responsible for overseeing third-party capital raising activities. He is based in London and supports GE’s worldwide industrial footprint. His global team is part of three key hubs in Europe, Americas and Asia-Pacific.

In his role, Davies leads a dedicated team who advise, structure and execute global export credit transactions on behalf of GE’s industrial businesses. The team offers GE customers access to the global capital markets and diversified funding sources by leveraging their deep energy finance skills and relationships to help customers finance their infrastructure projects.

Prior to this appointment, Davies was with the Sales and Project Finance business within GE and led the Export Credit Agency advisory function for the GE industrial businesses with primary responsibility for GE’s Power & Water division with a focus on the gas thermal, wind and nuclear power generation businesses.

Guto started his GE career in 1998 with the GE Aviation division before moving to the Sales & Project Finance organization in 2004. Furthermore, Guto led the group’s support for its increasing industrial footprint within the UK which included Aviation, Oil & Gas, Energy Management and Healthcare as well as supporting the group’s growing pipeline of projects located in the UK.

During Davies’ extensive career, he has become an expert in originating new sources of third-party financing from around the globe for customers within the infrastructure sector.  He has developed significant relationships with leading players within the financial, governmental and industrial sectors. 

Guto serves as GE’s representative with the British Exporters’ Association (BExA), an independent national trade association representing the interests of the export community, and in November 2012 was elected to sit on BeXA’s Council. He currently also serves as the Chair of BeXA’s Industry Committee after stepping down as Deputy Chairman earlier in 2016.

Heather Morice is the Human Resources Leader at GE Energy Financial Services. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring the GE Capital business unit aligns to GE’s cultural priorities, retains top industry talent and is continually positioned for success. 

Heather has been with GE for six years, joining from the Royal Bank of Scotland where she held a range of roles in the HR function, including Senior HR Business Partner for the Investment Banking Division.  A lawyer by training, she began her HR career as a legal recruiter. Before joining the Royal Bank of Scotland, she was Manager of Talent Acquisition at JP Morgan Chase.  Heather brings to GE deep domain expertise, extensive experience in financial services, and a true passion for talent and leadership development to the business.

Heather received her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations and Spanish from Syracuse University. She also holds a Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School.

Vishal Gulati is the Chief Financial Officer at GE Energy Financial Services.  In this role, Vishal is responsible for providing financial leadership and driving strategy and execution of the businesses global finance activities.

Vishal has been with GE for over 20 years and has held various roles in finance, accounting and operations in the U.S., Europe and Asia.  Prior to taking his current role, Vishal was the Finance Leader for the business unit’s Global Markets organization, based in London.  Prior to that, he served as CFO for Restructuring, Strategic Ventures and Insurance Group at GE Capital International in London and the business partner in the formulation and execution of business strategy while providing financial leadership at a business level including Joint Ventures. He has served as General Manager of GE Financial Markets in Dublin, where he was a key member of the Corporate Treasury responsible for managing GE’s Global Hedging Operations. 

During his GE career, Vishal has held various other positions within including CFO of GE Capital UK including GE Capital Bank Ltd, Business Development Finance Leader for GE Capital APAC, CFO, Capital Markets for US Retail Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis for US Retail Consumer Finance.

Before joining GE, Vishal worked in public accounting for six years advising clients across financial services, manufacturing and services sectors in auditing and M&A.

Vishal holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from Delhi University and a Chartered Accountant designation from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Torsten Marshall is General Counsel at GE Energy Financial Services (“GE EFS”), which operates within GE’s energy portfolio with GE’s Renewable Energy, Power and Digital businesses. In his role, Torsten manages a team of lawyers and other legal professionals providing transactional, environmental, litigation, corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory support.

Torsten is a seasoned project finance transaction lawyer with international experience and energy technology expertise. He joined the GE EFS Legal team as full-time Counsel in 2021 after serving the business as a legal consultant in a variety of capacities. Torsten began his law firm career as an associate at Jones Day and finished as a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Torsten graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Business Management and received his JD degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School.

John Pugh is Chief Risk Officer at GE Energy Financial Services, responsible for transaction approvals within the credit authority delegated to the business and oversight of the its investment portfolio.  In this role, John partners with commercial teams and leaders to identify and mitigate key issues/risks of a transaction, ensure timely execution of approvals, and manage on-book investments. Additionally, John oversees the business’ Operations team which includes Risk process professionals and subject matter experts in Technical, Insurance and Investment Strategy.

John has over 20 years of energy experience with GE Energy Financial Services and its predecessor business.  He has worked on transactions across the energy spectrum including serving as lead underwriter in Australia, managing an execution team in Renewables, overseeing EFS’ Midstream and Oil & Gas portfolio and most recently as EFS Operations Leader. 

John joined GE in 2000 as an Associate and he has held roles of increasing responsibility over time.  Prior to GE, John worked at Piper Jaffray as an investment banking analyst.

John holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Finance from Montana State University.

Jaclyn Cochrane is the Communications Leader at GE Energy Financial Services, where she is responsible for developing and executing a communications strategy in support of the business unit’s global energy investments and employee base. 

Jaclyn joined GE Capital in 2013 from Alpari US, a global online foreign exchange and futures trading brokerage, where she oversaw the company’s digital, brand, sponsorship and events programs for almost five years, and served as Head of Marketing from 2010-2013.

Jaclyn earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Sociology, with a focus on Media Arts, from Stony Brook University.