Talk:Jeff Clarke (businessman)

Potential COI
The major author of this article appears to be an employee; User:TP kelli acknowledges that she is employed by the company. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JzG (talk • contribs)
 * I removed the COI template since it was dated from August 2010, many edits have been made to this article since than and it appears more neutral. Jooojay (talk) 21:25, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Updates to board affiliations and article link
Hello, I'm Jherell Drain of Eastman Kodak Company. I have a few updates to this page to share with Wikipedia editors in hopes that someone will assist with making these edits.

First, Jeff Clarke has joined the Board of Directors at Autodesk. You can see confirmation of this here: http://news.autodesk.com/press-release/corporate-sustainability/autodesk-appoints-new-directors. This new affiliation should be included in the first section and under "Boards and honors."

Also, the link to the Business Week article titled "Perform or Perish" is currently broken. Here is the correct link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-11-04/perform-or-perish

I hope these edits are in line with Wikipedia's guidelines. I look forward to getting assistance with these updates soon. Jherell Drain, Writer/Editor, Eastman Kodak Company 14:31, 18 April 2016 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jherelld (talk • contribs)

Update to Board Membership
Good Day, Wikipedia volunteer. Jeff Clarke is no longer on the board for Red Hat. This would require TWO edits. Firstly, in the opening paragraph is states: "and a member of the Red Hat and Autodesk boards of directors.[1][2]" - This could be replaced with "and a member of the Autodesk board of directors." The second appearance of his board membership that needs to be removed (which lives under the Board and Honors tab) is stated as: Clarke is a member of the Red Hat board of directors, a NYSE-listed enterprise software firm, and served as a director for Compuware Corporation, an enterprise software company, from 2013 to 2014.[13][14] This can be replaced with "Clarke served as director for Compuware Corporation, an enterprise software company, from 2013 to 2014."

To prove that Jeff Clarke has resigned from the board of Red Hat, please see the following article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSFWN1AJ0C1

Please note that I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company, the company for which Jeff Clarke is currently the CEO MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 13:28, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for declaring your conflict of interest. Altamel (talk) 20:59, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Headshot of Jeff Clarke
Good Morning. Acting on behalf of Eastman Kodak Company, the company that Jeff Clarke is currently the CEO, I have uploaded the image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/Jeff_Clarke.jpg I am requesting that this be added to his page here. Please note that I work at Eastman Kodak Company currently, my name is Meagan Ramplin.

Thank you so much for your help. MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 12:42, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Meagan, and thank you for your image donation! The editors of Wikipedia greatly appreciate any contributions that expand our collection of freely licensed images. However, Wikipedia policy is extremely careful with image copyrights to avoid any claims of infringement, so I must ask you for additional confirmation of your image license to Wikipedia. Because this image has already been published on Kodak's website with all rights reserved, you must read the instructions at commons:OTRS and send an email from a company account confirming that Wikipedia is granted the free license to use the portrait. If you don't send the email within a few days, it is possible that the image will be deleted as a precautionary measure. Should that happen, the image can be restored by an administrator but that just involves another layer of bureaucracy. Thanks for your understanding. Altamel (talk) 15:32, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! That is most helpful and can absolutely be done. Can the email simply come from me at my Kodak email account confirming the free license? Or does it need to specifically come from our legal department. Thanks again, MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 17:34, 8 September 2016 (UTC) I have sent an email from my account, in an effort to speed this process up. Thank you, MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 17:38, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * As long as Kodak is the holder of the copyright, I believe you may act as their appointed representative. Altamel (talk) 17:43, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You may also post this tag: . Place it on commons:File:Jeff Clarke.jpg and that will alert the monitors over there that an OTRS email is pending. Altamel (talk) 17:49, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you! I have just done this. I really appreciate your help with this!MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 18:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

New Board of Directors Position
Please note that I am an employee of Eastman Kodak Company, the company for which Jeff Clarke is currently the CEO.

Jeff Clarke has become a member of the Docker Board of Directors as of November 13, 2017. Please see the following article to prove this: https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-announces-appointment-jeff-clarke-ceo-kodak-its-board-directors

He also no longer sits on the board of directors for Autodesk: http://news.autodesk.com/2017-02-07-Autodesk-Announces-CEO-Transition

The beginning sentence of Jeff's page could now read: Jeff Clarke (born July 1961 in Ithaca, New York) is an American businessman. Currently he is the CEO of Kodak as well as a member of the Docker Board of Directors.

Additionally, in a later Boards and honors section, a new sentence can be added to simply say: Jeff Clarke became a member of the Docker Board of Directors in November 2017- can use the same article for proof. https://www.docker.com/docker-news-and-press/docker-announces-appointment-jeff-clarke-ceo-kodak-its-board-directors

Also, you can now write: Jeff Clarke sat on the Board of Directors at Autodesk from March 2016- June 2016 http://news.autodesk.com/2017-02-07-Autodesk-Announces-CEO-Transition

Please let me know if you need anything else!

MeaganRamplinEKC (talk) 16:36, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

✅ Clarke's appointment to the Docker BoD implemented. As far as the removal from Autodesk, the source states:"Autodesk also announced a new agreement between Autodesk and Sachem Head Capital Management LP ('Sachem Head'). The agreement calls for two of Sachem Head's 2016 director nominees, Scott Ferguson and Jeff Clarke, to resign from the board of directors. In addition, Sachem Head Capital has agreed to continue until June 2018 their earlier standstill and voting agreement provisions."The statement as it's worded fails to clarify which company the resignations are being offered to: Autodesk or Sachem. It merely states that 2 of Sachem's nominees were going to resign. This is odd, because those who label themselves as a "nominee" would likely wait until they were appointed in order to resign. In other words, aren't nominees who resign from their nominations instead compelled to label these as "withdrawal of nominations" rather than a resignation? If they are resigning from Autodesk's board, then why are they referred to as nominees? It's as if they were to label someone who quits one job to start another job the "quitting new-hire". They can be one thing to one company (quitter) and the other thing to another company (a newhire) but they could never be both things to both companies at the same time, which is what the reference suggests.  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   16:32, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Request edit
I understand your confusion, but Jeff is still not on the Autodesk board of directors and has nothing to do with Sachem Head. Here is an article referencing the current Autodesk board of directors: https://www.autodesk.com/company/newsroom/corporate-info/executive-bios - Sachem Head Capital has no board of directors as it's not a publicly traded compmany: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=224002821 - would this information help you to make the change?

In addition, I wanted to add that Jeff Clarke is a co-founder for Your Grateful Nation (yourgratefulnation.org) https://www.yourgratefulnation.org/#/directors - this could be added under the board and honors section as " Jeff Clarke is a founder of Your Grateful Nation, an organization established in 2013 that assists special operations forces veterans with the successful transition from the military into their next career.

MeaganRamplinEKC

Reply 18-JAN-2019
Regards,  Spintendo   22:07, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) ✅ The requested information was omitted from the article.
 * 2) ❌ The claim regarding Your Grateful Nation was not added because it was not accompanied by references from reliable secondary sources. (See also WP:NOBLECAUSE, WP:NOTCV.)