Padmasree Warrior
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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. Warrior is responsible for the Motorola’s $4.0 billion research and development investment and the efforts of 25,000 engineers. She is an external director on the Board of Corning Corporation (NYSE:GLW). She is one of the most elevated Indian women in the US technology sector. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman Magazine.[citation needed]
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[edit] Career
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. Before becoming CTO, Warrior held a variety of positions including corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola’s energy systems group, where she was responsible for profit and loss, sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing.
Before her current position, she was general manager of Thoughtbeam, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, which was chartered to commercialization GaAs on silicon technology that was developed in the semiconductor sector of Motorola. This position was short-lived, however, because the Thoughtbeam technology was found to be based on erroneous measurements[citation needed]. Warrior also served as corporate vice president and chief technology officer for Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) which is now Freescale.
[edit] Education
Raised near Chennai in Southern India, Warrior received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from India Institute of Technology, New Delhi, from which she was recently recognized with the Distinguished Alumni Award. She holds masters in chemical engineering from Cornell University and serves as an advisory board member at both schools.
[edit] Recognition
On behalf of Motorola, Warrior accepted the 2004 National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States. Fortune Magazine called her one of four rising stars on it Most Powerful Women list[1] and the Economic Times recently ranked Padmasree as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian[2]. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman Magazine[3] and her achievements were further recognized by American Immigration Law Foundation in 2003[4].
[edit] Industry & Community Leadership
Padmasree serves on the boards of Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and Museum of Science and Industry, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Chicago Mayor’s Technology Council, Cornell University Engineering Council and advisory council of Indian Institute of Technology. She previously served on the Texas Governor's Council for Digital Economy, the Technology Advisory Council for the FCC and on the Advisory Committee for the Computing and Information Science and Engineering of the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is also serving as a mentor in the State Department’s International Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership.
