GE appointed four new company officers, effective December 1, including the selection of Jim Waterbury as vice president, M&A counsel for GE and general counsel for GE Capital.

Waterbury joined GE in 1991 and has held leadership roles in GE Power, GE Oil & Gas, GE Capital and GE Corporate. Most recently, he served as senior executive counsel of mergers and acquisitions for GE Corporate.

In addition to Waterbury’s appointment, Michael Chanatry was named vice president of supply chain for Power Generation Products for GE Power, Deirdre Latour was appointed vice president and chief communications officer for GE and Yuvbir Singh was tabbed vice president of global locomotive organization for GE Transportation.

Chanatry joined GE in 1983 and has held leadership roles in GE Aerospace, GE Aviation and GE Appliances. Most recently at GE Appliances he served as general manager for supply chain, and prior to that worked as the supply chain leader at Aviation Systems.

Latour joined GE in 2004 and has held a series of leadership roles in GE Corporate. She was named chief communications officer in April 2015. Previously Latour was senior director of external communications at GE and held leadership positions at Edelman prior to joining GE.

Singh joined GE in 1995 and has held leadership positions at GE Power. While at GE Power, he served as senior executive of business operations for GE Water. Singh joined GE Transportation in October 2015 to lead global locomotive organization.