Google completed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Tuesday,...
Google completed its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Tuesday, the companies said. Dennis Woodside, previously head of Google’s Americas region, is now Motorola’s CEO. Departing CEO Sanjay Jha will help to ensure the transition, Google said. Several executives at…
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Motorola Mobility will continue in their current roles: Iqbal Arshad (Product Development), Marshall Brown (Chief of Staff), Fei Liu (Mass Market Products), Dan Moloney (Home), Scott Offer (General Counsel), Mark Shockley (Sales), Mahesh Veerina (Software & Enterprise) and Jim Wicks (Consumer Experience Design), according to Google. Woodside is bringing in some outsiders as part of the transition: Regina Dugan (former director ofDARPA), Mark Randall (former supply chain vice president at Amazon and previously at Nokia), Vanessa Wittman (former chief financial officer of Marsh & McLennan), Scott Sullivan (former head of human resources at Visa and NVIDIA), and Gary Briggs (former Google vice president-consumer marketing) are joining the business. It’s uncertain how Google would run the Motorola business. Several analysts warned there’s little incentive to run Motorola independently.