New Delhi: Google has announced the completion of its $12.5 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings on Tuesday. Sanjay Jha, who revived Motorola's Mobile Devices business, has stepped down as CEO and Dennis Woodside has been appointed as the new CEO of Motorola Mobility.
Dennis Woodside oversaw Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, and is former President of Google's Americas region. He has worked with partners, governments and advertisers in more than 30 countries.
Most recently, Dennis was responsible for Google's Sales & Operations in the Americas. He also was the lead business partner for Google's advertising product development team, helping launch new ad products globally.
Dennis started his career at Google spearheading investment across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
"I've known Dennis for nearly a decade, and he's been phenomenal at building teams and delivering on some of Google's biggest bets. Dennis has always been a committed partner to our customers and I know he will be an outstanding leader of Motorola - and he's already off to great start with some very strong new hires for the Motorola team," says Larry Page, CEO, Google.
Woodside has a BS in Industrial Relations from Cornell University and a JD in Law from Stanford Law School. Before joining Google in October 2003 Woodside worked with McKinsey & Company.
Dennis Woodside has hired a small number of leaders who will immediately join Motorola's executive team, including Regina Dugan (former Director of DARPA), Mark Randall (former supply chain VP at Amazon and previously at Nokia), Vanessa Wittman (former CFO of Marsh & McLennan), Scott Sullivan (former head of HR at Visa and NVIDIA), and Gary Briggs (former Google VP of Consumer Marketing). In addition to these new leaders, many members of Motorola Mobility’s team 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).
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