Daniel A. Carp, chairman, president and CEO of Eastman Kodak Co., will be the Johnson Graduate School of Management's Park speaker on Monday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. in B09 Sage Hall. The title of Carp's talk is "Crossing the Digital Divide." The event is free and open to the public.

Carp received a B.B.A. degree in quantitative methods from Ohio University and an M.B.A. degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He later earned an M.S. in management as a Sloan fellow at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began his career at Kodak as a statistical analyst in 1970. In 1986 he served as assistant general manager and, later, as vice president and general manager of Kodak's Latin American Region . In 1990, Carp became the London-based general manager of the European Marketing Companies. He was appointed general manager of the European, African and Middle Eastern Region in 1991, and in 1997 he was elected its president and chief operating officer.

In January 2000, Carp became president and CEO of Eastman Kodak and was later elected chairman of the board of directors. He also serves on the board of directors of Texas Instruments Inc. and is a member of the Business Roundtable, the Business Council, the board of trustees of the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award Inc., the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the George Eastman House, among other appointments. In February, 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 and was a recipient of the 1997 Human Relations Award of the American Jewish Committee Photographic Imaging Division.

Carp's talk is part of the Park Distinguished Lecture Series at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and is a component of the Park Leadership Fellows Program.

For more information about Carp's visit, contact Clint Sidle at (607) 255-4104.