Motorola's Chennai-born lady CTO
08 Jun 2006
Chennai: Clad in a green saree, the short- haired Padmasree Warrior, executive vice president, chief technology officer, Motorolo Inc, was present for the MoU signing ceremony between her company and the government of Tamil Nadu. The $36.8 billion turnover company has decided to set up a 1 million per month mobile phone plant near Chennai.
This Chennai born, IIT Delhi educated CTO heads the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer's $3.5 billion research and development (R&D) efforts and has the operational responsibility for Motorola Labs, the global software group and emerging early stage businesses. She is the co-author of the Motorola's seamless mobility strategy.
She heads a 7,000-strong army of technologists spread out in different parts of the world that prioritise Motorola's technology programmes, creating value from intellectual property, guiding creative research from innovation through early stage commercialisation and influence standards and roadmaps.
She also serves as a technology advisor to the office of the chairman and to the board's technology design committee.
Earlier Warrior, who has been with Motorola since 1984, was corporate vice president and general manager of the company's energy systems group. She was also the general manager of Thoughtbeam Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola, leading the commercialisation evaluation team for compound semiconductor materials research.
"Nearly 40 per cent of the software required for Motorola phones are developed in India," she says.
Warrior holds a MS degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and a chemical engineering degree from IIT, Delhi.
