The GE Extraordinary Performance Award recognizes brilliantly exhibited values such as risk taking, persistence, and clear thinking in the advancement of cutting-edge initiatives. In 2013, GE’s Chief Technology Officer Mark Little presented this prestigious honor to the Ecoassessment Center of Excellence – Bill Flanagan, Angela Fisher, Matthew Pietrzykowski, and Ronald Wroczynski.

The General Electric Company (GE) established the Ecoassessment Center of Excellence in 2007 to develop a strategy and vision for assessing the environmental impacts of GE products throughout their entire lifespan, from raw materials extraction through reuse, recycling, or disposal at the end of product life. The team, founded and championed by Bill Flanagan and Angela Fisher, developed LCA and life cycle management strategies for a myriad of product, service and technology categories in a wide range of industry sectors including healthcare, transportation, power, lighting, remediation, aviation, renewable energy, additive manufacturing, advanced materials, and sustainable manufacturing. Their inspiring work had a major impact on the design and development of clean, innovative technology and product solutions that help solve some of the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges.

GE’s Global Research Center partners with all the GE businesses to deliver outcomes by mapping science to customer value, accelerating differentiated, cost-effective technology into GE products and exploring the edge of technical feasibility. These advancements lead GE, its customers and industries into the future. From making aircraft engines more efficient to powering the world with flexible gas turbines to crunching big data and pioneering the Industrial Internet, GE researchers work every day to see, move and create the future. This is all about making the world a better place and partnering with the GE business teams. Throughout its history, GE scientists and engineers have distinguished themselves, amassing tens of thousands of patents, two Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics, and a list of inventions that have defined and redefined after generations.