AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
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Ed Zander

No. 10 Ed Zander, chairman and CEO, Motorola

Last year's position: Not placed

The story goes that when Zander was offered the top job at an ailing Motorola, his aged mother asked him to think long and hard as to whether he really wanted to climb such a mountain.

Described by one of our Agenda Setters panellists as a "basket case in the mobile device space" by the time he got there, Motorola was an opportunity he couldn't resist. Zander is a class act and is showing just how far he can go beyond the far-from-insignificant COO post he held at Sun Microsystems.

Motorola still has its problems but in mobile devices it is more than a one-hit wonder with its Rokr handset, while its partnership with Apple for an iTunes phone is intriguing. The company has reinvented itself several times in the past and Zander may well take it on another journey. Who'd then bet against this class act taking on other challenges?

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"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


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