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Kodak loses Health Imaging leader
Kodak loses Health Imaging leader
Listen to this articleThe leader of Eastman Kodak Co.’s beleaguered Health Imaging business has left for another medical firm.
Michael McQuade, who was leading the effort to bring back the business, today said he planned to rejoin Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co.
The Minnesota-based 3M today named McQuade to head its newly formed Medical Division, created by combining 3M’s Skin Health and Medical-Surgical business units. He will serve as vice president.
Kodak has begun a search for a new president of Health Imaging. The photo giant today named Candy Obourn as chief operating officer of Health Imaging.
Obourn, a senior vice president of Kodak and president of its Document Imaging business, takes the new position immediately.
“Candy Obourn understands the needs of Kodak’s customers and how to meet them,” said Patricia Russo, Kodak president and chief operating officer. “As evidence, Kodak has become the world’s top seller of high-speed production scanners in just the past three years.
“I am fully confident that Candy will help drive Health Imaging’s profit-improvement plan, which is on pace and producing benefits that will become evident as the year progresses.â€
Before being named president of Health Imaging in October 2000, McQuade, 46, was the unit’s general manager of worldwide operations. He joined Kodak in late 1998 when the company acquired the Medical Imaging Systems business of Imation Corp., which was spun off from 3M in 1996. Prior to Imation, McQuade worked at 3M, which he joined in 1982.
“This is an opportunity to return to a company I know well, having spent 14 years at 3M,” McQuade said.
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