A leader-in-waiting at Motorola

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Motorola's executive vice president of the company's broadband group, Edward D. Breen Jr., is ready to become president and chief operating officer on Jan. 1, 2002. Breen had been General Instrument's chairman and chief when the company was acquired by Motorola for $17 billion. Breen began as a salesman and moved up successfully by way of his quick decision-making powers, social intelligence, loyal team building and strategy. Analsyts are nearly unanimous that Breen is the man to restructure Motorola, a man who beats deadlines. His team were given 6 months to integrate General Instruments and Motorola. They did in in three.

Communications Equipment, Communications Eqp ex Tel, Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Evaluation, Human resource management, Telecommunications equipment, General Instrument Corp., GIC, MOT, Chief executive officers, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Company personnel management, Galvin, Christopher B., Breen, Edward D., Jr.

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New Chief to Take Reins as Motorola Takes on Challenge of Rivals

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Motorola's new chairman Edward J. Zander is approaching his new appointment as Motorola's chairman and CEO with his customary sense of humor. He may need it more than he knows as stockholders remained concerned over the decline of Motorola's fortunes that generated a loss of 60,000 jobs. Nokia has emerged as a significant competit or to Motorola's cellphone market share, complicated by the company's failure to develop a camera cellphone at the same time as other companies. Zan der also faces the challenge of taking advantage of new opportunities for demands for telecommunications equipment and secure radio communications devices for the military and public safety agencies.

Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Humor and anecdotes, Zander, Edward

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Is It Still Called a Venture Fund When You Use Your Own Money?

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Cnet founder Halsey M. Minor is planning to start a venture capital company that would use his own money to finance companies, which is daring even by the standards of the high technology industry.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Financial management, Organizational history, Venture Capital Companies, Miscellaneous Intermediation, Investors, not elsewhere classified, Management, Finance, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Company business management, Company financing, Organization formation, Minor, Halsey M., Glenayre Technologies Inc., GEMS

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