Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Eastman Kodak Company

Daniel A. Carp began his Kodak career in 1970 as a statistical analyst and held a variety of increasingly responsible positions in market research, business planning, marketing management and line-of-business management, including general manager of Sales for Kodak Canada and general manager of Consumer Electronics Division.

In 1986, Mr. Carp was named assistant general manager of the Latin American Region. In September 1988, he was elected a vice president and named general manager of that organization. Two years later, Carp moved to London to take up the position of general manager of the European Marketing Companies. He was appointed general manager, European, African, and Middle Eastern Region in October 1991. Mr. Carp was elected executive vice president and named assistant chief operating officer effective November 1, 1995. On January 1, 1997, he was elected president and chief operating officer.

He was elected to the company's Board of Directors on December 12, 1997. Before serving in his current position as chairman and chief executive officer, Mr. Carp was president and chief executive officer (from January 1st, 2000 through December 8th, 2000); chairman, president, and chief executive officer (from December 8th, 2000 through April 16th, 2001); chairman and chief executive officer (from April 16th, 2001 through January 4th, 2002); and chairman, chief executive officer, president and chief operating officer (from January 4th, 2002 to April 2nd, 2003).

Mr. Carp is a member of the board of directors of Texas Instruments Incorporated. He is also a member of The Business Roundtable and The Business Council.  He is a member of the board of directors of the United States-China Business Council, the Business Steering Committee of the Global Business Dialog on Electronic Commerce, an executive member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, as well as a member of the board of directors of Africare.  He is also a member of the board of trustees of the George Eastman House.

In February 2001, Mr. Carp received the Photographic & Imaging Manufacturers Association Leadership Award.  He was selected as one of the first members of the 2000 Alumni Hall of Distinction of the New York State Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities.  He was a recipient of the 1997 Human Relations Award of the American Jewish Committee Photographic Imaging Division.

A native of Wytheville, Virginia, Mr. Carp received an MS degree in management as a Sloan Fellow at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earlier, he earned a BBA degree in quantitative methods from Ohio University and an MBA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Editor: Catherine