Nat Yogachandra
Speaker Bio:
Worldwide Marketing Manager, Eastman Kodak Company
Nat is currently assigned to the Consumer Imaging Business unit as the Worldwide Marketing Manager for Retail Digital Products & Services in Rochester, New York. Prior to this, he worked in Denver, Colorado, as the Marketing Director for Memira, a special unit of Eastman Kodak Company. He was transferred to Denver after spending three years in Hong Kong as the Regional Manager for Marketing Communications for Asia Pacific Region for Kodak. Nat has recently completed 25 years of service with Kodak, most of them while living in Asia.
Nat has been named a recipient of the Civic Award by the Greater Rochester Metro Chamber of Commerce, New York for his work on advancing better international understanding and participation. He founded an organisation of volunteers, Friends of the World, formed in New York, to teach students about different cultures around the world in order to promote unity among races.
Named an Able Toastmaster by the Toastmasters International, Nat served as the chairman and secretary of the Laemthong Toastmasters International, in Bangkok, Thailand. He was recently made a Certified Practicing Marketer by the Australian Marketing Institute. A Rotarian of Fairport Club, New York, Nat is a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International, in honour of his outstanding community service.
Nat is the author of two books, The Dragon Arises and Mysticism, Money and Madness, as well as the author of more than a hundred articles in Asian newspapers and magazines. He is well known for his speeches to marketing groups. He is currently working on his next book which discusses the current economic crisis and the future of Asia.
