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Brad Kruchten is currently the worldwide General Manager for Film & Photo Services. This includes film, single-use cameras, batteries, and all photofinishing labs in North America and Europe. Mr. Kruchten is also responsible for the products and services that enable retailers to offer an integrated retail solution to analog and digital photographers. These products include kiosks, paper, retail workflow software, and service and support.
In addition, Mr. Kruchten has responsibility for the Consumer Imaging Services (CIS) group in Europe; and also for Qualex and Event Imaging Solutions, which are wholly-owned subsidiaries that provide photo services to retail consumers and guests at theme parks and other attractions.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Kruchten was the Chief Executive Officer of Encad Inc., a wholly-owned Kodak subsidiary that the company acquired in January 2002. Encad is one of the world's leading manufacturers of wide-format inkjet printing systems. Kruchten became its CEO in June 2002. He was made Vice President of Eastman Kodak Company in July 2002. In December 2002, Kruchten was appointed President, Commercial Imaging Components for Kodak.
Kruchten's career at Kodak began in 1982 as a Quality Engineer. Over his first five years, he expanded his engineering experience in the Copy Products Division as a Manufacturing Engineer and a Development/Research Engineer. In 1986, he moved into a sales position for Copy Products, and over the next five years held a number of sales and marketing positions within Printer Products and Business Imaging Systems. In 1993, Kruchten became a product line manager for Business Imaging Systems. In this capacity he had profit-and-loss responsibility for Retrieval products. In 1998, he was named Strategic Business Unit Manager and a divisional vice president of the Capture and Services business within the Document Imaging unit. During his tenure, Kodak introduced a number of scanners, which made the company the world's leading seller of high-speed production scanning. In 2000, Kruchten was named Chief Operating Officer and vice president of the Document Imaging unit. As COO, he led the acquisition of the Imaging division of Bell & Howell. In 2001, Kruchten was named Site Manager, Kodak Colorado Division, and became a divisional vice president of Kodak's Global Manufacturing unit.
Prior to Kodak, Kruchten worked as a project engineer at Inland Steel and as a tool designer for General Motors Corp.
A native of Flint, Michigan, Kruchten has a B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State University, a M.S. in Statistics and Quality Management from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and has attended the Executive Management Development program at Penn State University. | 