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Frank S. Sklarsky
Mr. Sklarsky joined Kodak in October 2006 as Executive Vice President, and became the Chief Financial Officer in November 2006.
Mr. Sklarsky is responsible for worldwide financial operations, including Financial Planning and Analysis, Treasury, Audit,
Controllership, Tax, Investor Relations, Aviation, Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions, Worldwide Information Systems and
Corporate Purchasing.
Prior to joining Kodak, Mr. Sklarsky was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ConAgra Foods Inc., one of North
America's leading packaged food companies. At ConAgra, he implemented a new financial organization, significantly strengthened
the balance sheet, and played a major role in building credibility with the investment community. He also helped expand profit
margins at the $14 billion company.
Prior to joining ConAgra in 2004, Mr. Sklarsky was Vice President, Product Finance, at DaimlerChrysler, a position he held between
2001 and 2004. He returned to DaimlerChrysler to assist with the company's turnaround efforts after spending more than one year
as Vice President, Corporate Finance, and Vice President, Finance, of Dell’s $5 billion consumer business. He first joined
DaimlerChrysler in 1983 and held a series of increasingly responsible finance positions before leaving for Dell in 2000. At the time of
his departure for Dell, he was DaimlerChrysler’s Vice President, Corporate Financial Activities, and also led the finance functions
serving procurement, product quality, cost management and worldwide manufacturing during his tenure. Prior to DaimlerChrysler,
Mr. Sklarsky, a certified public accountant, served as a Senior Accountant at Ernst & Young International from 1978 to 1981.
Terry R. Taber
Terry R. Taber joined Kodak in 1980. In January 2009, he became Chief Technical Officer reporting to Kodak Chairman and CEO
Antonio M. Perez. The Board of Directors elected him a Corporate Vice President in December 2008.
Mr. Taber was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Kodak’s Image Sensor Solutions (“ISS”) business, a leading developer of
advanced CCD and CMOS sensors serving imaging and industrial markets. Prior to joining ISS in 2007, Mr. Taber held a series of
senior positions in Kodak’s research and development and product organizations. During his 28 years at Kodak, Mr. Taber has been
involved in new materials research, product development and commercialization, manufacturing, and executive positions in R&D and
business management.
Mr. Taber’s early responsibilities included research on new synthetic materials, an area in which he holds several patents. He then
became a program manager for several film products before completing the Sloan Fellows program at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He returned from MIT to become the worldwide consumer film business product manager from 1999 to 2002, and then
became an Associate Director of R&D from 2002 to 2005, followed by a position as the director of Materials & Media R&D from 2005
to 2007.
Diane E. Wilfong
Ms. Wilfong was elected Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, Eastman Kodak Company in September 2006. She
began her Kodak career in July 1999, as Director – Finance and Vice President, Kodak Professional Division. In late 2000, she was
named Assistant to the Chairman and President and Chief Executive Officer, where she served the Chairman’s office in an executive
capacity until early 2003. At that time, she took an operating line position as General Manager, Graphics and Printing Systems SPG,
in the Commercial Imaging Group (now Graphic Communications Group). In mid-2005, Ms. Wilfong was appointed Director,
Corporate Audit.
Prior to joining Kodak, Ms. Wilfong was Chief Financial Officer of Corning Asahi Video Products of Corning Incorporated, in Corning,
New York. Ms. Wilfong joined Corning in 1990 and held a variety of management positions in its finance organization. She is a
certified public accountant and began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she was an audit manager in the Charlotte,
NorthCarolinaofficeofthefirm.