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Aug. 5, 2008

Motorola confirms that it has appointed Sanjay Jha, former COO of Qualcomm, as its new CEO of its wireless handset division.

Company officials said Motorola's handset division has been for sale since March and will become an independent public company by the middle of 2009.

Jha won't have an easy task and will have to steer the company around through what many see as a very complicated transition that could be marred with some unexpected changes.

Before moving into the top management at Qualcomm, where he was president of the CDMA technologies division, Jha held various engineering roles at Brooktree and GEC Hirst Research Labs.

Jha has a Ph.D. in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Motorola recently fell to the third spot in handset market share, behind dominant Nokia and second-place Samsung, with LG Electronics in a close fourth place.

In addition to leading the wireless handset group, Jha is now co-CEO of the whole company, sharing duties with Greg Brown at Motorola Inc. where his broad expertise will also be needed.

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Source: Motorola.