Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior joined Motorola in 1984, as one of only a few women in its Arizona facility and she served in a broad range of roles over the course of her twenty-three years at the company, eventually achieving the position of Chief Technology Officer in its Semiconductor Products Sector, which became Freescale Semiconductor. When named Motorola's CTO in January 2003, Warrior became Motorola’s first female executive and in 2005 she was promoted to executive vice president.

On December 4, 2007 she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems.

Padmasree Warrior was born and raised in the city of Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India. She went to school at the Children’s Montessori School and Maris Stella College in Vijayawada. Warrior received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology 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. In 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by New York's Polytechnic University.

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