St. Lawrence Trustee Jay Ireland '77 has been named president and CEO of GE Asset Management Incorporated (GEAM). In this role, he will become a member of GE's Corporate Executive Council and the GE Capital Board of Directors. Ireland succeeds Ronald Pressman, who has been named president and CEO of GE Real Estate.
Ireland has been with GE for 27 years. After graduating from St. Lawrence with a degree in government and serving as a U.S. Army officer, he joined GE's Corporate Audit Staff in 1980. He held several financial and product management leadership positions at GE Plastics in the US and Europe and led GE's Investor Communications and Corporate Audit Staff. Ireland was named CFO of GE Plastics in 1997 and became president of NBC Television Stations in 1999. He was promoted to president of NBC Universal Television Stations and Network Operations in December 2006.
Ireland is a member of the board of directors of ValueVision Media,
the Television Bureau of Advertising, and Maximum Service Television
(MSTV). He is a trustee of St. Lawrence University and
a trustee and treasurer of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge,
Massachusetts. He and his wife, Valerie Lanigan'77 Ireland, live in New York City and
have two children.
Ireland, a 1977 graduate of St. Lawrence with a degree in government,
has been active as a fund-raising and career
planning volunteer.
He was a member Beta Theta Pi
fraternity and the football and baseball teams as a student. He donated
a lead gift of $300,000 toward the construction of the Thomas Fay
baseball field. Recently, St. Lawrence University announced that it received a gift of $1.7 million from Jay and Valerie Lanigan'77 Ireland. Their gift includes outright capital support for renovation of arts facilities, an irrevocable estate commitment and support for the St. Lawrence Fund. In recognition of their gift, the solarium in the renovated arts center has been named in the Irelands' honor.
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