Kim VanGelder was appointed Chief Information Officer in January 2004. She reports to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Antonio M. Perez. Since joining Kodak in 1984, VanGelder has held a variety of positions in Information Technology. For several years, she led the Corporate group responsible for defining Kodak’s global IT architecture and standards. In 1996, she was appointed Director of the Global ERP Competency Center, where she built the organization responsible for supporting Kodak’s worldwide Enterprise Resource Planning implementation. In 2000, she was appointed Director of Information Technology for Kodak’s Research & Development organization, where she was responsible for the strategic and operational aspects of IT for worldwide R&D. The Board of Directors elected her a corporate vice president in 2004. In addition to her role as CIO, in 2007 she was also given the responsibility to lead a set of initiatives focused on the transformation of key business processes across the company. In 2011, she assumed the additional role of Director, Worldwide Customer Operations, and is responsible for driving a more customer-centric, streamlined, and information-enabled go-to-market operating model. VanGelder holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She is a member of RIT's Board of Trustees, the Dean's Council for RIT's Golisano College, the SUNY Brockport Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of the Rochester Area Community Foundation. |