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George M.C. Fisher is former chairman & CEO, Motorola, Inc. and Eastman Kodak Company. He served as Chairman of the Board, Eastman Kodak Company, from December 1993 to December 2000 and was CEO from December 1993 to January 2000.
Before joining Kodak, George Fisher was chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola, Incorporated. Fisher joined Motorola in 1976, became president and chief executive officer in 1988, and was elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer in 1990. Prior to Motorola, he worked ten years in research and development at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Fisher is a Senior Advisor for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, and a member of the board of directors of Eli Lilly & Company, and Presiding Director of General Motors Corporation. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and of the International Academy of Astronautics.
He is a former Chairman of PanAmSat Corporation and is a past member of the boards of AT&T, American Express Company, Comcast Corporation, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Hughes Electronics Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing, Brown University, and The National Urban League, Inc.
Fisher served two terms as chairman of the National Academy of Engineering from 2000-2004. He is a former member of the boards of the University of Illinois Foundation and the U.S.-China Business Council, having served as chairman of both of these organizations from 1997 to 1999. He is a former member of the Council on Competitiveness, having served as chairman from 1991 to 1993 and a former member of the World Wildlife Fund National Council and Trustee Emeritus of George Eastman House. He was a member of The Business Council and served as Vice Chairman from 1997 to 1999.
He has been active in U.S./International trade issues through advisory groups to the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was an appointed member of the President's Advisory Council for Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN) from 1993 through 2002. Formerly, he was chairman of the Industry Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC).
Born in Anna, Illinois, he received a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Engineering (1962) at the University of Illinois, and both a Master of Science (MS) degree in Engineering (1964) and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1966) from Brown University. | 