Chris Pereira currently serves as GE’s Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Chief Risk Officer (CRO). Chris is responsible for company-wide strategy and risk management and establishing enterprise-level governance frameworks and operational initiatives for strategy and risk. His CSO work has included horizontal strategy themes such as oversight of the company’s energy transition strategy, accelerating work on breakthrough energy technologies in coordination with the business and Global Research Center teams, creating carbon emissions targets for GE, decoupling and digital. His CRO duties include leading GE Corporate’s commercial deal review process, through which he has underwritten more than $500 billion worth of commercial transactions in aerospace, energy and healthcare. Chris joined GE in 2007 and subsequently served in a number of roles, including Chief Corporate Counsel, where he led corporate governance, board and SEC matters for the company, and as General Counsel for the Business Innovations segment.  

Chris joined GE from Exelixis, a California biotech company, where he served as Vice President of Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary. Chris is a CFA charter holder and holds law degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.