Mountain View, Ca., USA - May 23, 2012, Mountain View, Ca., USA - Google Inc. announced that Sanjay Jha has stepped down as CEO of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. He has been replaced by Dennis Woodside.
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Dr. Jha has served as Chairman of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. since December 2010 and as Chief Executive Officer of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. and Motorola Mobility, Inc. since June 2010. From August 2008 to January 2011, Dr. Jha served as Director and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Devices and Home business with responsibility for Home business since February 2010.
Prior to joining Motorola, Inc., Dr. Jha served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Qualcomm, Inc. from December 2006 to August 2008. Dr. Jha also served as Executive Vice President and President of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm's chipset and software division, from January 2003 to December 2006. In the last five years, Dr. Jha previously served as a director of Motorola, Inc.
Dennis Woodside has been Vice President of Americas Operations at Google, Inc. since March 2009. Mr. Woodside served as Vice President of UK Benelux and Ireland of Google, Inc. until March 17, 2009 and served as its Senior Vice President since March 2009. He joined Google in 2003 and oversaw its operations in the U.K., Benelux and Ireland. From 2003 to 2006, he launched the business operations group at Google and built up its presence in Central Europe, Russia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Additionally, he started Google's inside sales operation in Europe. Prior to Google, Mr. Woodside served as an Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company, where he led operational and strategy projects for multinational clients in the technology and media industries. Earlier, Mr. Woodside managed complex mergers and acquisitions in aerospace, energy, media and finance industries, representing companies such as Berkshire Hathaway and Southern California Edison. He served as an Associate editor of the Stanford Law Review at Stanford Law School. ■