Chris Padilla joins Kodak in trade policy post.ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1997--Eastman Kodak Company has named Christopher A. Padilla Christopher A. Padilla is the Acting Under Secretary for International Trade within the United States Department of Commerce. He was appointed to the position on September 25, 2007, and he had been nominated to be Under Secretary for International Trade on September 4. as Director, International Trade Relations in its Washington, D.C., government relations office. In this capacity, Padilla will be responsible for representing the company's interests on a wide range of international trade and competition issues with the U.S. Government, various foreign governments, as well as trade and industry organizations. As a global supplier of products, Kodak expects to generate about 75% of its revenues from outside the U.S. within five years, up from just over 50% today. Padilla joins Kodak from Lucent Technologies where he was Director, International Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. . In 1987, he joined AT&T, which subsequently spun-off Lucent. Padilla is a member of a variety of professional organizations including the Washington International Trade Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association See TIA. (body, standard) Telecommunications Industry Association - (TIA) An association that sets standards for communications cabling. Cables that TIA set standards for include: EIA/TIA-568A and EIA/TIA-568B category three, four and five cable. , in addition to serving on the Electronic and Instrumentation Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade Representative. Padilla was graduated from Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. with a B.A. in International Studies and Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. School of Advanced International Studies where he received an M.A. in International Trade and Economics. -0- Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : For additional information about Kodak, visit our web site on the Internet at: http://www.kodak.com/ CONTACT: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester Charles S. Smith, Corporate Media Relations Phone: 716/724-4513 Fax: 716/724-0964 |
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