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Motorola and Carl Icahn have made nice and the beleaguered handset manufacturing once-giant can return to trying to save the company from a slow death. The latest move to help right the horribly listing ship that is Motorola is the appointment of a new Chairman of the Board. Ousted CEO Ed Zander has been serving on as Chairman since his departure from the company’s executive payroll. As planned, his retirement from the Board will be succeeded by former AT&T CEO David Dorman.
Come May 5, David Dorman will take over as a non-executive Chairman of the Board. As and MD and senior adviser at Warburg Pincus and Co, let’s hope that Dorman’s experience on Motorola’s Board and the boards of CVS, Yum! Brands, and the Georgia Tech Foundation is just the thing that Motorola needs to turn their wayward ship towards greener pastures (to mix a couple metaphors). Cutting out the tumor that Zander represents is a good start. The next step would be to get Brown to embrace technology and actually have an understanding for the mobile space.
[Via: MocoNews]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
