Thursday, April 10, 2014

Boss left, Motorola Already Have Substitute

 

Motorola


Indonesia - It did not take long for Motorola Mobility find a replacement for its Chief Operating Officer (COO) who resigned. The company now belongs to the Lenovo announced it has appointed a new President and COO Rick Osterloh.

Rick is a veteran Silicon Valley technology. He is actually not new to Motorola. Rick worked as Senior Vice President of Product Management and helped design the strategy of Motorola in the past two years.


Rick first joined Motorola about 7 years ago when an American company that acquired Good. He began to deal with the division of Android and organize product and engineering teams.


Reported by Cellular-news, on Thursday (04/10/2014), before working at Motorola, Rick became part of the Skype team. There, he was responsible for overseeing the design of products and, until the end of Skype was acquired by Microsoft.


Motorola Mobility was left Dennis Woodside on February. He was willing to leave his post for the sake of the new positions will be occupied in Dropbox.


Through the official blog of Motorola Mobility, Woodside said that the step was not an easy decision. But he is confident the future of Motorola Mobility will be guaranteed. Especially considering the future of Motorola is now in the hands of the Chinese technology giant Lenovo.


As is known, Lenovo has agreed to buy Motorola Mobility from Google worth $ 2.91 billion, just over two and a half years after the company was acquired by internet giant worth $ 12.5 billion.
"Being in the hands of Google, they enter a life of simplicity and sensibility of the software to us. While Lenovo, will bring it to scale more feasible anymore," Woodside said at the time.

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