Motorola CTO Richard Nottenburg takes off
by Ryan Block 
posted May 17th 2008 at 5:24AM
Seriously though, how many are surprised to hear that Motorola's Chief Technology / Strategy Officer Richard Nottenburg is jumping off the sinking ship? Apparently dude "left to return to the New York area to be with his family and pursue other opportunities," which is code for a) he was passed over for CEO of the new mobile devices company, b) he was fired, or c) he finally wised up to the direction the company's taken. Either way, we can't really blame him.
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js @ May 31st 2008 5:04AM
It is pretty clear that he only became MOT's Chief Strategy Officer because he was Zander's friend. He did not have experience or track record to get such job in a (still) multibillion dollar company. I would venture the guess that he hardly knew what a strategy was. He was a techie/academic. Besides that, the strategy of the business has been a disaster (I would not blame him, I blame the departed Ron Garriques, his lieutenants - many of which are still around, including the strategy guy at MDB- and Zander).
So Nottenburg was clearly done. The question now is whether Brown will bring someone from the outside who actually can bring a fresh perspective and knows the cable, public safety, enterprise and mobile businesses, or whether he will just promote some old MOT hand...