The Eastman Kodak Co. has tapped assistant general counsel Roger Byrd to step up and take the reins of the company's legal department as part of a series of business division and leadership changes announced Wednesday.

Byrd, who joined Kodak in 2015, succeeds Sharon Underberg, who had served as the Rochester, New York-based company's general counsel since 1989, according to her LinkedIn profile. She resigned to take a GC position at a “publicly-traded technology company,” according to a statement from Kodak. Attempts to reach Kodak for additional details about Underberg's departure were unsuccessful.

“Sharon has been an outstanding leader over her 29-year career at Kodak and for the past four years has provided critical strategic and legal support to me, the Executive Leadership Team and the Board in her capacity as General Counsel,” Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke said in a statement.

In addition to serving as Kodak's new GC, Byrd also takes on the roles of secretary and senior vice president. During his time at Kodak, Byrd has “focused on corporate and transactional work in support of the company's various strategic initiatives,” according to Kodak. Byrd did not issue a statement on his promotion and could not be immediately reached for comment.

Before he joined Kodak, Byrd was a Rochester-based partner at Nixon Peabody, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and securities law. He is a Duke University School of Law alumnus.

In addition to bumping Byrd up to GC, Kodak appointed Todd Bigger as president of the new Kodak Software Division, formerly known as Unified Workforce Solutions, the largest business of the company's software and solutions division.

Bigger succeeds Allan Brown, who left Kodak to join Finastra, one of the world's largest financial technology companies. He'll serve as Finastra's vice president and general manager of digital community markets in Austin, Texas, according to Kodak.