Chief technology officer leaves Motorola

Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer at Motorola Inc., has left, the Schaumburg company said Monday.

Motorola executives declined to say whether she voluntarily resigned and when it happened. She had already begun to realign the technology organization.

Her departure comes after Chief Executive Officer Ed Zander announced Friday he would leave by Jan. 1. He is being replaced by Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown.

Earlier in October, the Motorola Software Group with about 6,000 workers was reorganized to ensure their engineering and technology specialization directly support their businesses, Motorola spokesman Chuck Kaiser said.

Rich Nottenburg, Motorola's Chief Strategy Officer, will take over the overall technology leadership, said Kaiser.

Technology leaders in each of the company's businesses -- Mobile Devices, Enterprise Mobility Solutions and Home & Networks Mobility -- will continue to be charged with the commercialization of product development, said Kaiser.

"This is the final step in redefining the CTO responsibilities and is entirely consistent with the direction we outlined several months ago," Kaiser said. "Some of the best innovators in the world are Motorolans and together we will continue transforming the communications industry."

Motorola had already removed Warrior from the executive line-up on its Web site Monday evening. However, another part of the site still had her biography.

The biography said Warrior was "an engineer at heart with a true knack for business; Padmasree's charter is to drive innovation, prioritize technology programs and accelerate creative research to commercialization."

She led a global team of about 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola Labs, Motorola's software, emerging early-stage businesses and the corporation's intellectual property portfolio.