Padmasree Warrior is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT)
Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 and was appointed its CTO in 2003. Motorola has research and product development efforts worth $4.0 billion and encompassing 25,000 engineers. As the leader of corporate research Warrior oversees a small portion of these efforts.
When named CTO in January 2003, she become Motorola’s first woman executive vice president. Padmasree joined Motorola in 1984, as one of a few women in its Arizona facility.
Under Padmasree’s leadership, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States. Motorola received this highest recognition of American innovation for the first time in the company’s 77 year history in Feb 2006.
