Skidmore College Business Network
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Thursday, May 15, 2008, 6:15pm - 7:45pm
Skidmore College Business Network Boston invites all Skidmore Alumni & friends to our May 15th cocktail speaker event featuring Richard Laxer President and CEO of GE Corporate Financial Services.
Rich Laxer '83 can plot his career trajectory from Skidmore days to his present role as CEO of GE Capital Solutions, a global financial services corporation with over $101 billion in assets. Laxer did just that during a presentation he gave at a November 14 th Skidmore Business Network-New York networking event attended by alumni and several current seniors. After graduating from Skidmore with a business degree, Laxer decided to drop plans to study law and instead go into Financial Services. His business acumen was forged underwriting real estate and selling financial products in the gritty economy of the early 1980s.
"It's easy to succeed when the markets are good - but I learned a lot more about what can go wrong during the bad times," he says. "To this day, it remains the most useful training I ever received"
Laxer launched his career through GE's Financial Management Program and went on to have 14 managerial positions and 8 different GE locations. Over the next two decades, he established and headed up GE Real Estate Fund Capital Group in New York and other company platforms around the country. From 2001 to 2003, Laxer ran GE Asia Pacific Real Estate in Tokyo before moving on to lead GE Corporate Financial Services London-based European businesses, where he was responsible for leverage finance, corporate restructurings, and distressed/secondary debt investments. Today, he is in charge of GE Capital Solutions, a nine-division financial services group with $101 billion in assets and locations in 30 countries.
For more details and to RSVP please contact Toddfaber@thefabergroup.com.
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