Nate Bailey

Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer – GE Vernova’s Electrification Software

As the Chief Human Resources Officer of GE Vernova’s Software business, Nate is responsible for the business’ global HR talent, practices, policies, and operations while championing an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Nate has more than 25 years of experience in GE Human Resources leadership roles across Financial Services, Healthcare, Media, and Transportation industries. Most recently, in addition to his role in Software, Nate led the HR Separation Management Office for GE Corporate, where he was responsible for ensuring the people, processes and systems were successfully in place to enable the separation of GE into three new public companies.

Nate began his GE career in 1996 with GE Capital as an HR Manager and held positions of increasing responsibilities, with his last role at Capital as VP, Employee Relations for the GE Card Services business. He then served in HR leadership roles at NBC Universal, GE Healthcare, and GE Aerospace. In 2018, he was named CHRO for GE Transportation, where he led the business through the merger with Wabtec. At Wabtec, Nate served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources, for Wabtec’s 27,000 employees across all P&Ls and functions in 50 countries prior to rejoining GE Aerospace in October 2020.

Nate serves as a Board Member for Jobs for America’s Graduates, a non-profit organization focused on ensuring high risk high school students graduate and either enter the workforce or go on to college.

Nate graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations.