Wendell Weeks

Career

Corning Weeks joined Corning in 1983. He held a variety of financial, business development, commercial, and general management roles, including strategic positions in the company's television, specialty glass, and optical communications businesses.

In 1996, Weeks was named vice president and general manager of Corning's optical fiber business, a tenure which included managing through a major sales downturn.

Weeks has been a director of Corning since December 2000.

He was promoted to chief executive officer in April 2005. A notable action was rapid movement into production of Gorilla Glass, for the new iPhone.

He became chairman in April 2007.

Non-executive roles Weeks is a member of The Business Council and the Business Roundtable and has been a member of the board of directors of Amazon since 2016. He regards failures as opportunities to learn.

Personal life Weeks met his wife, Kim Frock, at Harvard Business School.