“Jeff is the right person to lead Kodak forward,” James V. Continenza, chairman of the board, said in a statement Wednesday. “His combination of strengths and experience in technology, transformation, finance, operations, and international business is precisely what we set out to find in the next leader of Kodak.”
Clarke, 52, replaces Antonio Perez as leader of the Rochester, N.Y.-based company, which employs about 450 workers at the Miami Valley Research Park in Kettering.
It’s in Kettering that Kodak bases its commercial digital inkjet design, production and maintenance operations, which are key to the company’s pursuit of markets worth a combined $730 billion — graphic communication, goods packaging and functional (tablet and smart phone) printing. Outside of Rochester, it’s Kodak’s largest concentration of employees.
Kodak emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2013.
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