Patrick M. Sheller
General Counsel, Secretary, Chief Administrative Officer and Senior Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company
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Patrick M. Sheller is General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Administrative Officer, Eastman Kodak Company.  As General Counsel, he is responsible for the company’s world-wide legal function and for providing legal advice to senior management.  In this capacity, Mr. Sheller reports to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.  As Corporate Secretary, Mr. Sheller is responsible for ensuring that the Board of Directors has the proper advice and resources for discharging its fiduciary duty under law, and ensuring that the company’s corporate records reflect the Board's actions.  He is the principal advisor to the Board and senior management on the federal securities laws and regulations.  As Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Mr. Sheller oversees the following corporate functions:  Human Resources; Communications & Public Affairs; Worldwide Information Systems; and Health, Safety & Environment.  In his capacity as CAO, Mr. Sheller reports to Laura Quatela, President and Chief Operating Officer.  

Mr. Sheller joined Kodak in 1993 as Marketing, Antitrust & Litigation counsel to the company’s former Health Group and has held several roles within Kodak’s Legal Department.  From 1999 to 2004, he served as Kodak’s Chief Antitrust Counsel.  From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Sheller was on assignment to Kodak’s European, African & Middle Eastern Region (EAMER), where he advised Kodak’s EAMER businesses on commercial legal issues.  He returned to Kodak’s Rochester headquarters in 2004 to assume business development and operating roles in Kodak’s Health Care Information Systems business.  From 2005 to 2011, Mr. Sheller served as Chief Compliance Officer of the Company reporting to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.  He was also Assistant Secretary from 2006 to 2009.  In January 2012, the Board of Directors elected Mr. Sheller a senior vice president of the company.

Before joining Kodak, Mr. Sheller was in private law practice with the Washington, D.C. firm McKenna & Cuneo (now McKenna, Long & Aldridge) where he specialized in antitrust and health care law.  From 1986 to 1989, he worked for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., where he served as an Attorney Advisor to the Chairman and as a Staff Attorney in the Commission’s Bureau of Competition.

Mr. Sheller is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and Albany Law School of Union University.