Eastman Kodak

Henry Alvah Strong was a U.S. photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company between 1884 and 1919. He was born on August 30, 1838 in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Wyoming Academy in 1858. On August 30, 1859, he married Helen Phoebe Griffin. They had... three children: Gertrude Achilles, Helen Carter, and Henry G. Strong. After Helen's death in 1904 from diabetes, he married Hattie Lockwood, on June 14, 1905.
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Hector de Jesus Ruiz is the chairman and CEO of Advanced Nanotechnology Solutions Inc. and former CEO & executive chairman of semiconductor... company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. . Ruiz was born in the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. As a teenager, he walked across the Mexico – United States border every day to attend a high school in nearby Eagle Pass, Texas, from which he graduated as valedictorian just three years after beginning to learn English. Ruiz earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 and 1970 respectively and a Ph.D. from Rice University in 1973. Ruiz worked at Texas Instruments for six years and Motorola for 22 years, rising to become president of Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector before being recruited in 2000 by AMD founder Jerry Sanders to serve as AMD's president and chief operating officer, and to become heir apparent to lead the company upon Sanders' retirement. Ruiz succeeded Sanders in the CEO's seat in 2002, and was named chairman of the board in 2004. Ruiz endorsed the decision to buy ATI, which led to a period of financial reverses.
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Born in 1947, Antonio M. Pérez is a businessman from Spain, the current CEO of Eastman Kodak Company, based in Rochester, USA. An American... citizen born in Vigo, Spain, Mr. Perez studied electronic engineering, marketing, and business in Spain and France, graduating for the Technical University of Madrid . He also holds an MBA of Insead. In 2009, he received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Rochester. Antonio Pérez joined Kodak in 2003, after a 25 year stint at Hewlett Packard where he was Corporate Vice President and a member of the company's executive council, as President and Chief Operating Officer. In May 2005, he was elected Chief Executive Officer, and on December 31, 2005, he became Chairman of the Company's Board. In his career, Mr. Perez has held a variety of positions in research and development, sales, manufacturing, marketing and management both in Europe and the United States. Immediately prior to joining Kodak, Mr. Perez served as an independent consultant for large investment firms, providing counsel on the effect of technology shifts on financial markets. From June 2000 to December 2001, Mr.
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Patricia Russo, listed by Forbes as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women, is the present CEO of Alcatel-Lucent. Alcatel-Lucent is one of the world's... biggest telecommunications company in the world.
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