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Eric H. Samuels
Eric H. Samuels was appointed Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer in July 2009. Samuels previously served as the Company’s
Assistant Corporate Controller and brings to his position more than 20 years of leadership experience in corporate finance and public
accounting. He joined Kodak in 2004 as Director, Accounting Research and Policy.
Prior to joining Kodak, Samuels had a 14-year career in public accounting during which he served as a senior manager at KPMG LLP’s
Department of Professional Practice (National Office) in New York City. Prior to joining KPMG in 1996, he worked in Ernst & Young’s New
York City office.
Samuels has a B.S. degree in business economics from the State University of New York College at Oneonta. He is a Certified Public
Accountant in New York and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Patrick M. Sheller
Patrick M. Sheller is General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer of Kodak.
He was named Kodak’s General Counsel in 2011 and has served as Secretary to the Board of Directors since 2009. In January 2012, he was
also appointed Chief Administrative Officer and elected a Senior Vice President of the Company by the Board of Directors.
As General Counsel, he is responsible for the Company’s world-wide legal function, including its Intellectual Property Legal organization, and
for providing legal advice to senior management and the Board of Directors. As Corporate Secretary, Sheller oversees Kodak’s corporate
governance program. He ensures that the Board has the proper advice and resources for discharging its fiduciary duty under law, and that the
Company’s corporate records reflect the Board’s actions. He is the principal advisor to the Board and senior management on federal securities
laws and regulations. As Chief Administrative Officer (“CAO”), Sheller also oversees the corporate functions of Human Resources;
Communications & Public Affairs; Worldwide Information Systems; Corporate Audit; and Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability.
Sheller led the legal, human resources, communications, and other functional aspects of Kodak’s successful chapter 11 reorganization
completed on September 3, 2013. Sheller continues to supervise these functions in Kodak’s ongoing transformation into a technology leader
focused on imaging for business.
Sheller joined Kodak in 1993 as division counsel to the Company’s former Health Group. From 1999 to 2004, he served as Kodak’s Chief
Antitrust Counsel. From 2000 to 2004, Sheller was based in Europe and advised Kodak’s European, African & Middle Eastern Region
businesses on commercial legal issues. He then returned to Kodak’s Rochester headquarters to assume business development and operating
roles in Kodak’s Health Care Information Systems business. From 2005 to 2011, Sheller served as Chief Compliance Officer of the Company.
He was elected Secretary of the Board in 2009, and served as Deputy General Counsel in 2011.
Sheller has a B.A. degree in economics and government from St. Lawrence University and a J.D. degree from Albany Law School of Union
University.
Terry R. Taber, PhD
Terry R. Taber joined Kodak in 1980. In January 2009, he was named Chief Technical Officer. The Board of Directors elected him a corporate
vice president in December 2008, and then a senior vice president in December 2010.
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, Taber held a series of senior positions in Kodak’s
research and development and product organizations. During his 30+ years at Kodak, Taber has been involved in new materials research,
product development and commercialization, manufacturing, and executive positions in R&D and business management.
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
(“MIT”). 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.
Taber received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the California Institute of
Technology. He also received an M.S. in General Management from MIT as a Kodak Sloan Fellow. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of
Trustees at Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary. Taber is a board member of the Innovation & Material Sciences Institute
and serves on the Executive Advisory Board of FIRST Rochester (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). He also serves
on the Executive Committee of the Rochester Business Alliance and the New York State Business Council.
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