Laura G. Quatela is Senior Vice President and Chief Legal & Corporate Responsibility Officer. She is a member of Lenovo’sExecutive Committee. The Financial Times named her among the top 20 GCs in the World in June 2021. In November 2021, she was inducted into the IP Hall of Fame as a joint winner of IAM’s Inaugural Q. Todd Dickinson Award. She is also a member of World 50.
Quatela co-founded Quatela Lynch LLC, a consulting practice helping clients leverage IP assets and organizations, and make informed technology investment decisions.
From April 2013 to June 2019, Quatela served on the Board of Directors of Technicolor SA, a French company traded on the NYSE Euronext Paris exchange and a worldwide technology leader in the media and entertainment sectors. At various points in her tenure, she chaired the Strategy and Remunerations Committees, and sat on the Technology and Nominations & Governance Committees.
Before leaving Eastman Kodak in February 2014, Quatela was President of the company. She also served as Co-Chief Operating Officer in 2012. Additionally,. Quatela led Kodak’s $1.4 billion consumer film, photographic paper, retail photo kiosk and event imaging businesses. She managed their divestiture to the company’s UK pension plan, which held the single largest claim filed in Kodak’s bankruptcy case. Sale of the iconic consumer businesses resolved this claim and enabled Kodak to emerge from Chapter 11.
Quatela joined Kodak in 1999 and held various positions in the company’s Legal department. She next moved to the CFO’s staff to help restructure Kodak’s finance functions. In 2004 she joined a small team charged with licensing the company’s technology and patents, including Kodak’s foundational digital camera portfolio. Quatela developed this effort into a business that generated more than $4 billion in revenue.
In 2006 the Board of Directors elected her a corporate Vice President. In 2008 Quatela was appointed Kodak’s first Chief Intellectual Property Officer, a role she retained when she was named General Counsel and elected a Senior Vice President of the company in 2011. In tandem with her corporate duties, Quatela headed Kodak’s OLED business, negotiating the sale of the seminal OLED patent portfolio to LG Electronics and others in 2009.
Prior to joining Kodak, Quatela worked for Clover Capital Management, Inc., SASIB Railway GRS, and Bausch & Lomb. In private law practice, she was a defense litigator specializing in mass tort cases.
Quatela is a member of the Board of the Help Us Give Smiles (HUGS) Foundation, supporting surgical missions to correct congenital ear and facial deformities of children living in the Andean States, Guatemala, Vietnam, and other areas of high incidence. Past advisory board and community work includes the Board of Managers of Provenance Asset Group LLC, and the Board of Trustees of Allendale Columbia School, the Strong National Museum of Play, and the Visiting Nurse Association of Rochester and Monroe County.
Quatela is a graduate of Denison University, B.A., International Politics (1979) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D. (1982), where she was inducted into the Society of Benchers. She is conversant in Mandarin.