Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside wasted no time pulling the ripcord and parachuting into Dropbox, a hot Silicon Valley startup.
Although the ink's not yet dry on Lenovo Group Ltd.'s $2.9 billion acquisition of Libertyville-based Motorola, Mr. Woodside's work was done. A former McKinsey & Co. consultant and Stanford-trained lawyer who ran Google Inc.'s sales operations before he was put in charge of its $12.5 billion experiment in making phones, Mr. Woodside ran Motorola from Silicon Valley.
No surprise that Mr. Woodside didn't go back to Google to run sales. Margo Georgiadis, based in Chicago, has that job.
Mr. Woodside is following the same path as Sanjay Jha, who departed Motorola Mobility after he sold it to Google.
Don't be surprised if the rest of the Google-hired team of senior executives hit the door as well, depending on their severance packages. The same thing happened after Google bought Motorola.
The real question is how many of the Chicago-area Motorola veterans who survived the Google acquisition — such as engineering boss Iqbal Arshad and design chief Jim Wicks — will remain after Lenovo takes over. Lenovo kept most of the day-to-day management in place when it bought IBM Corp.'s PC business.
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