Rich Nottenburg, chief strategy and technology officer, has become the latest executive to leave Motorola.
Nottenburg's resignation is the most recent in a spate of high-profile departures from the company since Carl Icahn, who took a leading role in the Microsoft-Yahoo merger fracas, began his successful pursuit of Motorola board seats.
Nottenburg's departure, announced on Thursday to employees in an internal memo, according to Motorola spokeswoman Jennifer Erickson, follows the replacements of CEO Ed Zander in January, acting CFO Tom Meredith in February, and mobile devices head Stu Reed and marketing head Casey Keller in March, along with treasurer Steve Strobel and EMEA mobile-devices head Mike Fenger.
"[Nottenburg] left to return to the New York area to be with his family and pursue other opportunities," Erickson told Reuters.
In April, Motorola posted a quarterly loss of US$194 million. Weeks earlier, under pressure from investors such as Icahn, the struggling company announced that it would split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories, and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise-level communications services.
In the wake of Nottenburg's resignation, according to The Wall Street Journal, Motorola Labs will be directed by Dan Moloney, who leads the company's home and networks mobility business.
