$9.4 billion Eastman Kodak Company has elected Eric Samuels as corporate controller and chief accounting officer, effective July 1. He will be reporting to CFO Frank Sklarsky.

Samuels succeeds Diane Wilfong, who will relocate to Las Vegas in early July to become vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer of Harrah’s Entertainment.

Samuels, who joined Kodak in 2004 as director of Accounting Research and Policy, brings to his new position nearly 20 years of leadership experience in corporate finance and public accounting. He most recently served as Kodak’s assistant corporate controller. Prior to joining Kodak, he had a 14-year career in public accounting during which he served as a senior manager at KPMG LLP’s Department of Professional Practice in New York City. Prior to joining KPMG in 1996, he worked in Ernst & Young’s New York City office.