Cyrille Petit served as Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Global Business Services for Smith & Nephew until 2018, and was a member of the Executive Committee from 2012. Before that, he served for 15 years with General Electric Company, where he held progressively senior Corporate Development and Strategy roles beginning with GE Capital, GE Healthcare and finally GE Transportation. He began his career in investment banking at BNP Paribas New York in 1993 and at Goldman Sachs in London between 1995 and 1997. Mr. Petit holds a Master of Arts in Finance from the HEC School of Management in Paris, France (1993).