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Kodak
Names Senior Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council
CEO Dan Carp to lead global panel
Eastman
Kodak Company today announced a new Senior Executive
Diversity and Inclusion Council, which will serve as
the company's governing body to set policy and establish,
monitor, and ensure aggressive action toward achievement
of Kodak's diversity and inclusion goals
 Chairman
and CEO Daniel A. Carp will chair the new diversity
council, which will continue the work done by Kodak's
groundbreaking external diversity advisory panel. From
2001-2003, the external panel studied Kodak's diversity
and inclusion efforts, and mapped strategies for the
company to broaden its diversity efforts in the future.
"The
Senior Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council will
give our efforts to build a Winning and Inclusive Culture
a broader global reach," said Essie L. Calhoun,
Kodak's Chief Diversity Officer and a Kodak vice president.
"Our purpose is, in part, to ensure knowledge and
practice of diversity and inclusion on a scale significantly
greater than within the borders of our North American
operations."
Carp
and Calhoun will serve as two of the Council's permanent
members. Other permanent assignments to the council
include Antonio M. Perez, Kodak's President and Chief
Operating Officer; Charles S. Brown Jr., Kodak's Chief
Administrative Officer, and senior vice president; and
Robert L Berman, Director of Human Resources and a Kodak
vice president.
In
addition, three rotating seats will enable representation
from Kodak business units and functions, representing
large numbers of employees. Three executives were named
to serve in these two-year terms: Charles C. Barrentine,
Director, Kodak Operating System, and a Kodak vice president;
Candy M. Obourn, Worldwide Chief Operating Officer of
Kodak's Health Imaging business, and a senior vice president;
and Nilde Passanesi, General Manager, Global Sites,
Global Manufacturing & Logistics, and Kodak Brazil
Site Manager.
The
council, which begins work this month, will meet quarterly.
Its primary tasks will include providing guidance and
direction to the Global Diversity Leadership Team, a
group of about 30 Kodak mid-level managers who develop
and implement Kodak's overall diversity strategy, and
take a leadership role in communicating and executing
the strategy.
"The
new council will operate under a set of values, principles
and ethics in a world without borders, including cultures
centuries older than the U.S.," Calhoun noted.
"Given the changing nature of our business and
the markets we serve, the council's challenge will be
to think globally and function locally."
07/04
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