Carolina Dybeck Happe

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Carolina Dybeck Happe
BornJuly 1972 (age 52)
Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater Uppsala University
Notable workCFO of General Electric (March 2020- )
SpousePhilipp Happe
Children2

Carolina Dybeck Happe (born July 1972) is a Swedish business executive serving as the chief financial officer (CFO) of General Electric since March 2020. [1] She is the first outsider and non-American to be appointed CFO of the company, a job that has been described as one of the toughest CFO jobs in corporate America. Prior to joining GE she has been the CFO of several global corporations including A.P. Møller – Mærsk and ASSA ABLOY. [2]

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Early life and education

Dybeck Happe was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Sten Dybeck a Swedish businessman and entrepreneur. [3] She holds a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Uppsala University in Sweden. [4]

Career

Dybeck Happe began her career at EF Education First (an international education company) in 1996 where she pursued an international career holding various positions in Russia, Switzerland and USA. In 2002 she joined lock-maker ASSA ABLOY as a regional CFO based in Berlin, Germany. In 2007 she became the EMEA CFO based in London, United Kingdom. After a stint as the group CFO of Trelleborg (a Swedish-based global engineering group) in 2011 she rejoined ASSA ABLOY in 2012 as group CFO and executive vice president based in Stockholm. [5]

In 2019 Dybeck Happe was appointed group CFO, executive vice president, of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S (the largest shipping company in the world) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. [6]

In November 2019 it was announced that Dybeck Happe would join General Electric as the group CFO and executive vice president, [7] a role she assumed in March 2020.

In November 2021, General Electric announced its plan to split into three separate public companies focused on the growth sectors of aviation, healthcare, and energy. [8] Dybeck Happe has played an important part in the three-way split, including shrinking the company’s debt levels, managing the complexities of the spinoff transactions, and  defining the new entities’ capital and tax structures. [9]

In January 2023, GE completed the spinoff of one of the three businesses, GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC). [10] [11] [12] In March 2023, there were reports about the favorable market reaction to GE’s execution of its plan to date, with one report citing that GE stock is the best performing industrial stock so far this year, having jumped 40%, even as the S&P 500 Industrial Index has slipped 1.7%. [13] [14]

Dybeck Happe has been recognized as a top CFO in the US [15] and in Europe. [16] General Electric was also recognized for the best overall investor relations program (large cap) in the US in 2022. [17]

Dybeck Happe is currently a board member of Ericsson, [18] a Swedish telecoms equipment maker, and formerly on the Supervisory Board of E.ON [19] a German based European electric utility company, and has previously been on the board of directors of Schneider Electric (a French based global specialist in energy management and automation).

In September 2024, it was announced [20] that Dybeck Happe would be the new EVP and Chief Operations Officer at Microsoft. [21]

Personal life

Dybeck Happe is married, with two children, and lives in the Boston area. Dybeck Happe is fluent in Swedish, German, English and Polish.

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