Jenne К. Britell, Ph.D., is Chairman and CEO of Structured Ventures, Inc, advisors on financial services and product strategy to U.S. and foreign companies. She is a director of three NYSE companies: Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK), Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX), and West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (WST). She serves on the Audit (or Audit & Finance) Committee(s) of all three, and she chairs the Crown Audit Committee. She is also a director of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund and The U.S. Russia Center For Entrepreneurship..
Dr. Britell is a former senior executive of GE Capital. At GE Capital, she most recently served as Executive Vice President of Global Consumer Finance and President of Global Mortgage and Commercial Banking. Previously, she was President and CEO of GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she had responsibility for the GE Capital consumer and commercial banking businesses in the region, as well as in Austria and Switzerland, and for the consumer finance business in Germany. Prior to that, as President and CEO, she led the turnaround of GE Capital Mortgage Services. At GE, she was recognized as a business leader who led turnarounds or enhanced profitability, with outstanding Six Sigma and compliance performance. She also served as Chairman of the Management or Supervisory Boards of many foreign GE-owned banks.
From 1993-1996, she was Executive Vice President, Chief Lending Officer, and General Manager, Mortgage Banking, of Dime Bancorp, where she led the turnaround of Dime's
mortgage business, among other efforts.
From 1990-1993, as Chairman and CEO of HomePower, Inc., she was a senior advisor to many national and international corporations, including Chase, Dime, MONY, the Central European Development Corp., the Polish-American Enterprise Fund and the World Bank. She was also the founding Chairman and CEO of the Polish-American Mortgage Bank in Warsaw, Poland. This Bank was the first private western-style residential construction/mortgage bank in Central and Eastern Europe.
Dr. Britell previously held senior positions at Citicorp and Republic New York Corporation (now HSBC), and before that served in executive positions at Educational Testing Services.
She received her B.A., with honors, and M.A. from Harvard University and her M.S. (business administration) and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Dr. Britell was formerly: Senior Advisor to eBay and PayPal for Financial Services, director of Lincoln National Corporation, director of Aames Investment Corporation, trustee of TIAA-CREF, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York City Housing Partnership, and William Paterson University. She was a charter member of the US Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing. She was also a trustee of the Franklin Institute, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Children's Crisis Treatment Center, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Institute on Aging of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
