Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior
Born	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Cornell University
Employer(s)	Cisco Systems, (Nasdaq: CSCO)
Title	Chief Technology Officer
Board member of	Joffrey Ballet Museum of Science and Industry
Spouse	Mohandas Warrior
Children	Karna Warrior

Padmasree Warrior is the Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems, (Nasdaq: CSCO) and the former CTO of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).

Career

When named Motorola's CTO in January 2003, Warrior became Motorola’s first female executive leading a team of 4,600 technologists in Motorola Labs. In 2005 she was promoted to executive vice president and led a team of 26,000 engineers and directed Motorola Labs, with an annual R&D budget of $3.l7 billion.

Warrior first joined Motorola in 1984, as one of only a few women in its Arizona facility. Over the course of her 23 years at the company, she served in a broad range of roles, including as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Motorola’s Energy Systems Group, and as Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for its Semiconductor Products Sector, which is now Freescale Semiconductor. Immediately prior to becoming Motorola’s CTO, she served as general manager of Thoughtbeam, a wholly-owned Motorola subsidiary chartered to commercialize Motorola’s GaAs on silicon technology that was developed at the Physical Sciences Research Laboratory in Tempe, Arizona.

During Warrior’s tenure as CTO, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States, the first time the company had received this honor. On December 4, 2007 she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems. Some people in the industry, including Cisco CEO John Chambers, consider her addition to Cisco to be advantageous because of her industry voice and marketing ability..

Family

Padmasree Warrior is married to Mohandas Warrior, CEO of a Madison, Wisconsin-based company called Alfalight. They have a 15 year old son named Karna Warrior.

Education

Born and Raised in the city of Vijayawada in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, India, Warrior did her schooling 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 awarded an honorary doctorate by New York's Polytechnic University.

Recognition

Fortune Magazine called her one of four rising stars on its Most Powerful Women list, placing her between the 10 "highest paid" and the "Young and Powerful" categories. Also, the Economic Times recently ranked Warrior as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian. In 2001 she was one of six women nationwide selected to receive the "Women Elevating Science and Technology" award from Working Woman Magazine and her achievements were further recognized by American Immigration Law Foundation in 2003.

Industry and 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.

External links

• First blog posting from Cisco
• Cisco Hires Padmasree

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