Walter Robb, a former General Electric Co. executive who helped recruit Jack Welch to the company and later was chosen by Mr. Welch to revive GE’s medical-equipment business, died Monday of Covid-19 at a hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. He was 92.
Mr. Robb, who earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1951, visited the university less than a decade later with a GE colleague and recruited Mr. Welch.
Mr. Welch, who died March 1, became CEO of GE in 1981.
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