Chennai: Ten years after joining General Electric (GE) Tejpreet Singh Chopra is now the president and CEO of GE India. Assuming charge on June 1st, 2007, he will lead all the GE businesses in India.

Prior to the elevation Chopra was heading GE Commercial Finance India and earlier to that he was senior vice president and country head for India for GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing unit of GE.

It was in 2005, he moved from the unit''s headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, USA, to open a GECAS office in Delhi and has since arranged more than $1 billion in financing for India''s growing airline industry.

Since joining GE in 1996, Chopra has held positions in marketing, structured finance and risk management, at both Stamford and Hong Kong at GECAS. He also managed global sales for the regional jet program at GECAS.

Chopra is an economics graduate from St.Stephen''s College, Delhi and an MBA from Cornell University. He used to represent the Tamil Nadu state in swimming events.

Curiously he belongs to a family of corporate CEOs. His father J S Chopra heads Delphi TVS Diesel Systems Limited, Chennai and mother Sangeet Chopra runs a furniture business in Chennai. Asked about his feeling on the elevation of his son to head GE India the senior Chopra says, "I am really proud." (See: ).

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