Michael J. Barber is a GE Officer and Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare. He also serves as Technology Leader for GEHC's Global Diagnostic Imaging business. A 25-year GE veteran, Barber started with GE in 1981 and has had a variety of roles within GE Healthcare. In 2001, Barber was General Manager for Components Engineering, and from 2002 to 2005 he was the General Manager for Global Components Operations for GE Healthcare.

Barber has held various engineering design and leadership positions at GEHC. He started as an electronics design engineer in the Xray Product Development Group, developed the control architecture (Advantx) for the Xray product line as a software project leader, managed the Hardware, Firmware and Diagnostics team at CT, and managed the Functional Engineering team in the MR business. Barber returned to Xray as the Manager of the Digital Xray Detector Platform, which replaced the need for film in Xray procedures. He then became General Manager of the Diagnostic Xray Engineering, leading a team of over 300 engineers located in Milwaukee, Paris, Budapest and Beijing.

GE Healthcare has more than 5000 engineers, technologists and scientists working in diverse fields such as MR and CT engineering, patient monitoring, anesthesia, life sciences, imaging contrast agents and health-related R&D.

Barber is an active champion of GE's African American Forum and has also served as chair of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Elfun Society (a volunteer organization of GE employees). He was named to the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Top 40 under 40 in 1997.