Kodak Names New Head Of Strategic Initiatives

After a 35-year career with Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), Terrence Faulkner, director and VP for the company's strategic initiatives, will retire on Dec. 1, 1998. Barry Brenner, who has been assistant director and VP for Kodak's strategic initiatives since August, will be promoted to director VP for strategic initiatives. Brenner will report to George Fisher, Kodak chairman and CEO.

"Terry Faulkner is a genuine intellectual innovator, and a Kodak legend," Fisher said. "His contributions started before the 126 Instamatic system introduction and continued through the formulation of our roadmaps for the years beyond 2000."

Faulkner, 60, joined Kodak in 1961 as an industrial engineer at Kodak Park. He joined the Army in 1962, where he was placed in charge of airborne hardware for the Pershing Missile project at the Redstone Arsenal. He returned to Kodak in 1964 and joined the human factors group, a team of engineers devoted to understanding how people actually interact with cameras and other devices. In 1985, he became assistant to the director of the photographic technology division and started the first Kodak technical intelligence group devoted to forecasting technology change.

In the following years, Faulkner became assistant to the director of research; head of technology planning for imaging; director of strategic and quality planning; and VP. In 1995, he assumed his current role, where he became responsible for strategic initiatives at the corporate level. The author of numerous publications, he received the Human Factors Society Alexander Williams award in 1983 "for outstanding human factors contributions to the design of a major operational system." He was named a Fellow of the Human Factors Society in 1983.

Brenner, 49, joined the company in 1973 as a research physicist in the Kodak Research Labs. Since then, he has held positions in research, operations, manufacturing, marketing, international management, and every form of business and strategy development. These roles have included director of Kodak's office of corporate strategy for professional and photofinishing products; divisional VP and general manager of Kodak's Lamdek fiber optics business unit; country general manager of Kodak Singapore with regional responsibility for Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and other Asian countries; director of corporate strategy development for the Kodak imaging group; and director of strategy for Kodak's global consumer imaging group. From 1995-98, he served as regional business general manager and VP for Kodak's consumer imaging business in the Asia Pacific region and Japan.

Brenner received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University, and an MBA from the University of Rochester. He has completed the program for executive development at the Kellogg school at Northwestern University.

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