David Dorman appointed as Motorola non-executive Chairman

We won't say that Motorola's on the up and up, but just after ridding itself of that pending litigation between it and Carl Icahn comes word that a fresh face will be succeeding Ed Zander as non-executive Chairman of the Board. David Dorman, former chairman and CEO of AT&T, has been selected by Moto's Board of Directors to take over Zander's chairman seat after he retires on May 5th. According to Greg Brown, president and CEO of the company, he feels that Dorman is "ideally suited to serve as Motorola's chairman," and he made known his excitement about working with Dave as it "moves forward with its plan to create two independent publicly traded companies and improve the performance of the Mobile Devices business." Good luck in there, Mr. Dorman.

[Image courtesy of USA Today]

[Flashpoint @ Apr 9th 2008 11:31AM]

"My dog told me to kill Steve Jobs"

[farfisa @ Apr 9th 2008 11:47AM]

Maybe Mr. Dorman can show some of those overpaid, big-spending egomaniac execs the, uh, door.

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 11:53AM]

what, so they can create a really thin door, place it on every doorway of the world and then keep pumping those out even when the rest of the world has moved on to open sourced doorways that still support firmer wares?

[roole @ Apr 9th 2008 11:57AM]

I don't need http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/09/led-dog-tail-communicator-gives-fido-a-voice/ to see that Fido is unimpressed.

[Rick @ Apr 9th 2008 11:59AM]

Which is Dorman and which is the dog?

[Anonymoose @ Apr 9th 2008 12:03PM]

i believe the dog is combo 12 at panda express. dorman is like combo 17 or something.

[n @ Apr 9th 2008 12:05PM]

Hmmm... how about this rumor(?) about takeover by Videocon
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080401/motorola-videocon.htm
Doesn't look like Engadget picked up on it.

[Magallanes @ Apr 9th 2008 12:14PM]

what is the meaning of non-executive?.

is to receive a big check every month for do nothing?.

[raulr @ Apr 9th 2008 12:34PM]

non-exec means he's not an employee (i.e. CEO). A lot of times, companies combine CEO and Chairman of the board, making it an executive chairman (ala Zander).

[Chris Heer @ Apr 9th 2008 3:09PM]

Classic. All this bozo did at the old AT&T was watch it shrink and try to sell it to a Baby Bell.

Not an improvement.

[Peter @ Apr 9th 2008 4:10PM]

Seriously... according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dorman he was at the helm as PointCast, AT&T Broadband, and then old-world AT&T were driven into the ground. Great. Not exactly the kind of strong new leadership we were expecting.

[Iain @ Apr 9th 2008 4:36PM]

But in his defence, he's probably only got this job 'cos he lost a bet.

[Dick @ Apr 9th 2008 4:24PM]

If your home interior looks like this, how can you be responsible for the future of a high tech company?

[cortez @ Apr 9th 2008 5:47PM]

good one! that was funny! :)

[tallfella @ Apr 9th 2008 8:09PM]

Don't you just love the corporate talk of "moving forward", wtf are they suppose to do? Stop and go backwards.... good luck but no choc chip cookies from me, Moto should die.