Senior Quality Manager, GE Vernova
Past Chair, Minority Affairs Committee - AIChE
Tayo Femi-Fowode is a passionate Chemical Engineer with over 17+ years of corporate and leadership experience in the energy sector. He currently serves as Senior Quality Manager at GE Vernova, where he leads complex, cross-functional Root Cause Analysis and oversees daily management of critical and aging non conformances and drive customer engagement and customer supports across the Americas.
Previously, Tayo served as Global Operations Leader for GE Vernova, where he was responsible for operationalizing tools, processes, and interfaces that enabled execution of global Customer Service Engineering & Support workstreams. Earlier, he led the digital adoption of Asset Performance Management (APM) for GE Gas Power Fleet Management business where he drove digital integration of monitored turbines, generators, and other equipment to minimize downtime, optimize plant performance and save operating cost for more than 950 power plants in 75 countries and serving 350 million people worldwide. Before joining GE Power in 2011, he was Project Manager in the asset management division of Rolls-Royce Energy.
Tayo is a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and serves as Past Chair for the Institute’s Minority Affairs Committee (MAC). He has also volunteered in different capacity amongst which are the MAC Real Talk Speed Mentoring and AIChE’s apprentice program where he worked with other young professionals to foster STEM education in the Houston community with K-12 students.
Tayo graduated from Prairie View A&M University, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering. He also holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering and an MBA both from Columbia University in the City of New York. Tayo enjoys entrepreneurship, mentoring young professionals and spending time with his wife and daughters.