Carolina Dybeck Happe

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.

In November 2019 it was announced that Dybeck Happe would join General Electric as the Group CFO and Executive Vice President, a role she assumed in March 2020 and holds to the present. Since joining the company GE has undergone a financial transformation including significant deleveraging. Dybeck Happe has been recognized as a top-ranked CFO in Europe by a number of leading publications and associations.

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 the global leader in access solutions 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.

Carolina Dybeck Happe (born July 1972) is a Swedish business executive serving as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of General Electric since March 2020. 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.