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Motorola

COMPANY

Electronics company, founded in 1928 by Paul V. Galvin as "Galvin Manufacturing Corporation", later changed to Motorola -- the name a contraction of "Motor" + "Victrola."

Official Website:
http://www.motorola.com/

Industry:
Electronic Components

Ticker:
NYSE:MOT

Corporate headquarters:
Schaumburg, IL

Sales:
$36.8B (2005)

Employees:
69,000

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Keith J. Bane
Business
c. 1940   Former EVP Global Stategy, Motorola
Robert L. Barnett
Business
c. 1940   EVP at Motorola, 2003-05
Ed Breen
Business
c. 1956   CEO of Tyco
Gregory Q. Brown
Business
c. 1960   CEO of Motorola
Jocelyn Carter-Miller
Business
c. 1957   President of TechEdVentures
Timothy Y. Chen
Business
c. 1956   Microsoft CEO Greater China Region
David W. Devonshire
Business
c. 1945   CFO of Motorola, 2002-07
Michael R. Farese
Business
c. 1946   CEO of WJ Communications, 2002-05
George M. C. Fisher
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Kodak, 1993-2000
Christopher B. Galvin
Business
21-Mar-1950   CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003
Robert W. Galvin
Business
9-Oct-1922 11-Oct-2011 CEO of Motorola, 1959-90
Maureen E. Girkins
Business
c. 1955   CEO of Zondervan
Sanjay Jha
Business
1963   CEO of Motorola Mobility
Barry C. Johnson
Business
c. 1944   Villanova Dean of Engineering, 2002-06
John E. Major
Business
c. 1945   CEO of Novatel Wireless, 2000-03
Patricia B. Morrison
Business
c. 1959   CIO of Motorola
Indra Nooyi
Business
28-Oct-1955   CEO of PepsiCo
James A. Norling
Business
c. 1942   EVP at Mororola, 1998-2000
Hector Ruiz
Business
25-Dec-1945   CEO of Advanced Micro Devices
Gerhard Schulmeyer
Business
1938   President of Siemens US, 1999-2001
Steven J. Strobel
Business
c. 1958   Senior VP at Motorola
Gary L. Tooker
Business
c. 1940   Chairman of Motorola, 1996-99
Morton L. Topfer
Business
c. 1937   Vice Chairman of Dell, 1994-99
Padmasree Warrior
Business
c. 1961   CTO of Cisco
Phoebe A. Wood
Business
c. 1953   CFO of Brown-Forman, 2001-08
Mike S. Zafirovski
Business
c. 1954   CEO of Nortel
Edward J. Zander
Business
12-Jan-1947   CEO of Motorola, 2004-07

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gregory Q. Brown
Business
c. 1960   CEO of Motorola
David W. Dorman
Business
1954   CEO of AT&T, 2002-06
Judy C. Lewent
Business
c. 1948   CFO of Merck
Thomas J. Meredith
Business
c. 1950   CFO of Dell, 1992-2000
Nicholas Negroponte
Educator
1943   Founder, MIT Media Lab
Samuel C. Scott III
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Corn Products
Ron Sommer
Business
29-Jul-1949   Chairman of Deutsche Telekom, 1995-2002
James R. Stengel
Business
5-May-1955   Procter & Gamble executive
Anthony J. Vinciquerra
Business
c. 1955   CEO of Fox Networks Group
Douglas A. Warner III
Business
9-Jun-1946   CEO of JP Morgan, 1995-2000
John A. White
Business
c. 1940   Chancellor, University of Arkansas
Miles D. White
Business
1955   CEO of Abbott Laboratories

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Erich Bloch
Business
9-Jan-1925   Director of NSF, 1984-90
George M. C. Fisher
Business
c. 1940   CEO of Kodak, 1993-2000
H. Laurance Fuller
Business
c. 1939   CEO of Amoco, 1991-98
Christopher B. Galvin
Business
21-Mar-1950   CEO of Motorola, 1995-2003
Robert W. Galvin
Business
9-Oct-1922 11-Oct-2011 CEO of Motorola, 1959-90
Sanjay Jha
Business
1963   CEO of Motorola Mobility
Walter E. Massey
Business
5-Apr-1938   Morehouse College president, physicist
Indra Nooyi
Business
28-Oct-1955   CEO of PepsiCo
John E. Pepper, Jr.
Business
c. 1938   Chairman of Disney
Gary L. Tooker
Business
c. 1940   Chairman of Motorola, 1996-99
Mike S. Zafirovski
Business
c. 1954   CEO of Nortel
Edward J. Zander
Business
12-Jan-1947   CEO of Motorola, 2004-07

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
William D. Mensch
Engineer
9-Feb-1945   Co-Designer, 6502 microprocessor

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Melissa Bean
Politician
22-Jan-1962   Congresswoman from Illinois, 2005-11
Larry Carter
Business
c. 1952   CFO of Cisco, 1995-2003
Richard S. Hill
Business
c. 1952   CEO of Novellus Systems
Dennis J. Keller
Business
c. 1941   DeVry Institute of Technology
Timothy Koogle
Business
5-Jul-1951   CEO of Yahoo, 1995-2001
Gregorio Reyes
Business
c. 1942   CEO of Sunward Technologies, 1985-94
Fred Saberhagen
Novelist
18-May-1930 29-Jun-2007 Berserker series
Susan Schwab
Government
23-Mar-1955   US Trade Representative
Cheryl L. Shavers
Business
c. 1953   Under Secy. Commerce for Technology, 1999-2001
Danny J. Windham
Business
c. 1959   CEO of Digium

CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
David Beckham
Soccer
2-May-1975   Los Angeles Galaxy
Jay Chou
Singer
18-Jan-1979   Taiwanese popstar, Kato in The Green Hornet
Carson Daly
TV Personality
22-Jun-1973   MTV Total Request Live
Chad Ochocinco
Football
9-Jan-1978   NFL wide receiver
Ann Sheridan
Actor
21-Feb-1915 21-Jan-1967 Torrid Zone


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