life after After Motorola edited ver2 pdf

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Painting by Manjula

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I have been fortunate in my career to have led many successful teams
and I can honestly say, that of all those many teams, only one team
stands above all the rest. Without a doubt in my mind, the Motorola
Paging India team was, and is, Simply the Best team I have had the
honor and privilege to lead. You represent the very best of what
makes a team truly unique and outstanding and we should all be very
proud of all that we accomplished in the early years in spite of the
many challenges that we faced. I remember my time in India very
vividly with great fondness and consider that time, the best part of my
career and life. Thank you for being a part of that wonderful time
where we created magic and demonstrated the true meaning of
teamwork by making the impossible happen many times over. "

Dinesh Raghavan

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets so

well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here
lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

― Martin Luther King Jr

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Editor’s note

What is friendship?

The famous American professional boxer, Muhammad Ali,
once said "friendship is not something you can learn in school,
but if you have not learnt the meaning of friendship, you really
haven't learnt anything."

Dear friends,

Our theme "Revisit, Reunite, Relive” symbolizes the essence of the team spirit
that was the hall mark of Motorola during the Golden years between 1990 and
1997. Our first commander Dinesh Raghavan, a leader par excellence along
with Hank and Gopal showed us what is takes to succeed and Hank that made
leaders out of many of us sitting here today. Following in his footsteps were
Hank and Henry who strengthened us further with their own unique experience
and knowledge. Their presence here today is a sign of their love for this
wonderful team.

We are going to spend time together with our very own best friends in our lives.
Old Stories are like old friends. You have to visit them from time to time.
Today is our time to revisit. We should all thank the organizing team lead by
our Bala who with a Motorolan spirit of “Can Do” got us all together to
celebrate our golden days with Motorola. Nakkina, Manmurthy, Devaprasad,
Gayanthri CM, Devdas, Poornima, Sanjay Yellore, Rakesh, Padmini have put
their heart into making this event possible.

The task given to me was to chronicle and celebrate the accomplishments of
many who went out, followed their passion and carved a niche for themselves in
their chosen field of interest. This idea of celebrating a few, turned into making
a souvenir reflecting the life after Motorola for all of us assembled here today.

This E-Souvenir reflects our conscious effort towards savings Mother Earth.
This Souvenir will keep reminding you of this day and fill you with the
longingness to meet again and again picking up the lost strings.

Celebrate today and enjoy life………as we Revisit, Reunite, Relive the
Motorolan spirit !

Jagdish R

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The Team that made this possible

Balakumar Devprasad Padmini

Nakkina Sanjay Yellore Rakesh T Man Murthy

Devadas Poornima Katti Gayathri CM

Do you know about who did what? Read on

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Dinesh Raghavan

"A leader is one who does not care about his rank and role but remains always
responsive to lead, shoulder responsibility, and achieve the goal in such a way
that everyone, in and outside the team, respects him for touching their revered
souls."-Anuj Somany

From India, went to Ireland for about 18 months before landing a role at what was then an iconic
company at the time, Palm, and spent 3 years there. After Palm, I moved to Thailand and was part of
the UK based Orange cellular group before being hired by the Thai organization - True Corp. I spent 3
years at True before finally retiring at the end of 2005.

I have since remarried and am following my passion of truly living life - enjoying making my cup of
coffee in the morning and watching the sun rise, living a healthy life, learning a new language,
starting a new life all over again and taking the time to smell the roses and being truly immersed in
this thing we call life.

Henry Mohan

1. After Bangalore, I moved to Shanghai, China to start a new Outsourcing Department where I was
responsible for transferring all the Motorola Infrastructure PCBA business to EMS in China.

2. In 2004, I became the GM for the infrastructure manufacturing in Tianjin.

3. In 2005, When Motorola integrated all the manufacturing under one roof called Integrated Supply
Chain (ISC). I was involved in the consolidation process in Tianjin and then headed the ISC
Operation in China.

4. In 2006, I started working on India manufacturing strategy which was approved in the middle of
2006. At the end of 2006, I came to India to choose the manufacturing site. After choosing Chennai,
we inaugurated a 300Ksq.ft manufacturing site in Chennai.

5. In 2010, Google bought over Motorola mobility. After transferring the legal entity to Google, I left
Motorola/Google in mid 2013.

Since then, I am enjoying a retired life.

Stories of Motorolans who followed their heart…

World’s greatest batsman was once asked, Why do you practice so much you
are already a great batsman in the world, He replied, If i don’t practice for a
month, audience can tell the difference. If i don’t practice for a week my wife
can tell the difference. If i don’t practice for the day i can tell the difference

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Sachin Tendulkar use to set such high goals for himself, when we think about
Sachin what is the first word that comes to our mind? “Talent”, was he born
with talent, Talent can be developed.

When Sachin was 14 years he played 55 matches without taking a break,
morning he use to practice for 2 hrs. than play a match in evening again
practice. This he has done 55 times without break. It was not Sachins talent that
made him greatest batsman of all times it was his passion for the game that
made him great.

Talent always gives us an opportunity or first chance but post that, when you
reach to certain level it’s your attitude and passion to perform. Passion is the
energy that keeps us going, passion is the driving force behind success and
happiness that allows us all to live better lives

"Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your
life, be passionate."

-Jon Bon Jovi

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day
you find out why.” —Mark Twain

Sharmila

A thing of beauty is joy for ever.. John Keats

Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something
physical.. Sophia Loren

Leaving Motorola in 1998 was a big decision; Quest for entrepreneurship was stronger than
professional career. It was a complete transformation of my total personality. While I was stepping
out it was invaluable capital I could garner working with a few of my colleagues worked with me
during that time also present here and rekindling my delight.

I ventured into Image management space, Touched many lives with Humility by coaching many
young girls in the tricks of Beauty Enhancement and presentation. Been a regular visitor to Old age
home on special days each year and try to bring cheer on the faces by showing them how wonderful
they are.

As a professional in the stream of beauty business I earned a lot of name, fame, money and cherished
success but I think that it is all because of professional touch what I could bring in that sector which
is not so well organized.

This discipline was a part of my personality development happened about 2 decades ago. I owe a lot
to a few of you who were directly or indirectly a reason for my transformation. I am glad that I have
this wonderful opportunity to recap my memory of those wonderful years I spent with Motorola and
becoming a part of reunion after a gap of almost 2 decades

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Manjula Kalibhat (Kulkarni)

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means PAINT
and that voice will be silenced.. Vicent van goh.

A homemaker par excellence and pursuing her passion. The deserts of Bahrain with a happy,
lovely, charming, caring & supporting small family (Hubby & daughter) has taken her to her
hobby of painting. Some lovely paintings of hers below. Enjoys being a homemaker, loves to
cook, do gardening and does some paintings as my time pass.

Look at some of the beautiful paintings she has done

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Dev Prasad

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.” —Nelson Mandela

Dev Prasad is a senior IT professional and currently working in Bangalore. He secured his degree in Electronics
& Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Trichy, and done his MDP
Program from IIM Bangalore. He has held senior management positions at various European and American
Multinational Companies such as ABB, Dell, Philips, Motorola, etc.

Books and Awards:

1. His debut book “KRISHNA: A Journey Through the Lands & Legends of Krishna” (A Spiritual
Travelogue) was published by Jaico Publishers, one of India’s leading Publishers. It was long listed for
“2010 Vodafone Crossword Award”.

2. His second book “Pitch It !” (Management genre) was published by Random House, the leading
Publisher in the World. It has been on the Bestseller list at leading Bookstores across India.
It bagged the Second Prize of the prestigious ISTD Book Award (Instituted by “Indian
Society for Training and Development”.)
It was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Business Book of the Year 2014 Award.

3. His third book “The Curse of Surya” (Crime Thriller) has been recently published by the world’s
leading Publisher, Penguin Random House.
It has been listed under India’s leading e-Retailer, Flipkart’s “Top 10 Must Reads”.
India’s leading Bookstores chain, Crossword has listed it under “Crossword Recommends”.

Talks on Leadership / Management:

He has spoken on various Leadership / Management topics at the following prestigious forums -
1. Keynote Speaker at IEEE International Conference, Bangalore (EDAPS 2014)
2. Speaker at Bangalore Business Literature Festival
3. Chief Guest at Radhakrishna Pillai’s Book Launch of “Chanakya in you”
4. Chief Guest at Dilip D’Souza’s Book Launch of “The Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar”
5. Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker at Rotary Conference
6. Judge at Bangalore Entrepreneurship Cell’s Competition
7. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (PGP Program)
8. NASSCOM, Hyderabad
9. National HRD Network (NHRD), Hyderabad
10. National HRD Network (NHRD), Bangalore
11. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (PGP Program)
12. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (MDP Program)
13. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (EPGP Program)
14. eBay, Bangalore
15. W.S. Atkins, Bangalore
16. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bangalore
17. TiE, Bangalore
18. Bangalore Management Association
19. Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
20. PES University, Bangalore (MBA Program)
21. PES University, Bangalore (BBM Program)
22. Centre for Management Studies, Jain University, Bangalore

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23. Deloitte, Hyderabad
24. Madras Management Association, Chennai
25. SIP Academy, Chennai
26. All India Senior Management Workshop, Vijaya Bank, Bangalore

Though an engineer by qualification, he has a wide range of interests. These include reading, writing, travelling,
photography, study of mythology and listening to music. He likes creative writing and has worked as a part time
freelance copywriter for three years for many advertising agencies. He has written many poems, one of which was
selected by International Poets Association, USA.

He is passionate about serving the society and has been associated with a few NGOs working for under-privileged
children. He loves sports like cricket, badminton, table tennis and chess.

He can be contacted at [email protected] or + 91 – 98441 20270.

Vinutha

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of
contributing to the healing of the world. - Mariane Williamson

After I left you all, I joined as a Secretary to MD in the Resource Centre for Training and
Development and served there for 2 years.

Then I was a Team Leader for a period of 1.5 years in the Utkarsh Staffing Solutions.

Later, after my marriage in 2010, my journey of life turned towards finding my true Self, (Of
course with the help of my husband). I learnt Meditation, Yoga and Holistic Healing. This
took me to the Spiritual path which has helped me only with too practical a technique of
living life effectively and more happily, unlike the general belief of a recluse would be the
result of spiritualism. A good practice of this life style gets me new leaf of fresh knowledge
every day, which is also abundantly helpful in growing my cute angel Harini, as a responsible
citizen of the society with necessary checks and balances. This keeps me hooked to it.

Read on - Article from Vinutha on Healing

HAPPINESS AND PEACE OF MIND – VERY ESSENCE OF LIFE‼

Our effort is to be happy, joyful and be peaceful always. But our physical ailments take us for
a ride often. The unique life style technique of keeping ourselves happy, peaceful, hale &
healthy, without having to wait at the doorsteps of a Doctor or swallowing any pills or piercing
ourselves with needles, is HOLISTIC HEALING.

The very term is suggesting that all other healing processes followed hitherto are incomplete.
Is it so? Yes, Obviously. Modern medicine treats just the symptoms, thereby implicating more
hidden side effects only to erupt as a different ailment at a future time. And all other systems
of medicine have one or the other insufficiencies. Whereas Holistic Healing helps not only to
bring back a person to the state of ease from ‘dis-ease’, but also uproots the very cause of
ailment, the Karma. This healing system stems from the Vedic Knowledge of India. Veda is

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not any product of human intelligence. Any knowledge of human intelligence has its expiry
date sealed on it only to become extinct. But the Vedic Knowledge keeps on feeding more and
more insight to the one who strives with devout sincerity. Hence, this Holistic Healing
Knowledge could also be termed liberally as Brahma Vidya – as it explains the incoming –
existing or living, - and outgoing or departing (death) of our souls in relation to our mortal
coils. As the soul is all powerful, it gives us the power and technique to know and heal our own
body, mind, soul and also to help others through healing. All the Reiki, pranic healing and other
types of healing techniques practiced world over nowadays, find their roots very much from
this vedic knowledge only.

The way in which healing works is truly unbelievable, amazing and miraculous. But healing
does not happen as a chance or accidentally. It is a perfect method. We all know that breathing
is inevitable to live. We may spend lakhs and lakhs of rupees to treat our diseases for several
transplantations and even blood transfusion; but above all this, our blood system has to be
always energized with the enlivening energy in it. At least 50 times in a minute, our blood gets
de-oxygenated and again gets rejuvenated by the process of breathing which is involuntary.
We have to introspect what we spend to breathing, when we spend so much of money for
treatments. Also must realize that there is no life without breathing.

We breathe in the Life Source Energy from the atmosphere and breathe out our own toxins.
Actually for the sake of explanation, it is told as breathing in and breathing out and O2 and CO2
and all. Actually, it is an uninterrupted continuous process of energy cycle happening during
breathing. Our system is always bound and filled with the divine life energy around us. So,
whatever toxin is in our system, the moment we inhale, that toxin is transformed into again
pure form of life energy within us and the excessive toxins only are let out.

The diseases are nothing but collected stagnated, overhead storage of these excessive toxins.
A master of holistic healing with a unique skill connects himself with the unlimited life energy
around, and channelizes that divine life energy directly to the affected area of the patient. Also
as how one is breathing out the toxins, the same way the healer brings out the toxin directly
from the affected area. As how the exhaled toxin gets recycled as life energy, the same way,
the discharged toxins also get recycled as pure energy in the atmosphere. The uniqueness of
Holistic Healing is, it helps to unearth the root cause of the disease from its seed level, from
the very thought area of the patient which is called (PLR) Past Life Regression.

Asha Sultana

After Motorola worked for Flextronics Technologies and now working for CoreEL
Technologies Ind pvt Ltd.,

Antonio Do Rego
In between goals is a thing called Life, That has to be lived and enjoyed.. Sid
Caesar

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A true goan in “Spirit”, love for talking and enjoying

From being the head of Precision Interconnect in India,then to Elcoteq, Lenovo and found
his heart taking him to his heartland, Goa. A true goan by look, by spirit and a great team
builder and a motivator. Now the managing director of Andrew telecommunication
(Commscope)

Cecily Mathews

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves, in
finding themselves - Andre Gide

Moved on to BEL Bharat Electronics- A Defense Establishment and perused her passion for work in
quality and today play a key role in meeting the quality standards for Akash missiles, weapon locating
radars and schilka radars used by Indian armed forces. Championing QCC activities in the
organization and have won several awards for the same.
I have prioritized my work and family amidst all the challenges of the work in the PSU environment.
My passion for my family has allowed me to indulge in exploring culinary skills of various cultures,
passion to travel has taken me to many places. The adrenaline rush in me has been tamed by
indulgence in adventure sport activities .continuing to grow through life….cheers

Komala

Sure sign of spiritual growth – You want more freedom and less “stuff”.

Lisa Villa Prosen

Spiritual growth is about increasing our ability to love without limits…

Completed Computer courses at NIIT, then joined IBM at Pondicherry. Handling ABB and Bharat
Light and Power Project as PMO Manager since the last 15 years. Has pursued the path of spirituality
by doing some seva to the almighty.

Sudhir

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving
it - William ward

Saying thank you is more than good manners, it is good spirituality - Alfred
Painter

It takes a wise man to learn from his mistakes, but an even wiser man to learn
from others.

Has several Idols in the Motorolans he has worked with. Regards Abdul Jaleel, MAN Murthy,
Nakkina, B.K Ramesh and Eric as inspirational managers who helped shape his future. Has immense
appreciation for collegues who supported him. Rattles names like Varma, Ravishankar Joseph,

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Shivaprasad, Srinivas, all of T&M team, Shrikath RD, Dev Dass, Praveen Dass, Subbu for their
support in shaping up his career especially in becoming an Engineer

Joined APC (American Power conversion) to learn and grow his expertise in more equipments and
then joined Universal Instruments Corporation as a Global Field Engineer where he learnt the nuances
of software. Hardware to software and in the process visited many countries for Installations, Training
and SMT Line Configurations. Great progress.

During this transition I had completed my Engineering and had joined MBA on operations
management. This helped me to learn different optimization techniques. With these backgrounds, I
wanted to improve my career path.

I then joined Nokia as a FPO (Factory Process Owner) for all Pick and Place machines. I used my
technical abilities and management skills to multiply the lines from 10 Lines to 20 Lines in same
space. I designed different types of SMT lines to run the products. My work was recognised and I was
awarded with few achievement certificates.

I again started looking for a change in my career as my passion had changed after my MBA. I was
looking for a management level of interaction which I can do independently. I got a right opportunity
at AIM Solder as Technical Sales Manager. Here I could use my Technical and Management skills to
run the operations.

Currently I am with AIM solder since 2007, working as acting Director and taking care of sales
independently in India.

This is my professional path starting from Motorola to AIM solder. I have thoroughly enjoyed my
career throughout this period with the support of my friends.

Coming to my personal life, I got married in 2007, and blessed with 2 beautiful daughters, Siri and
Saanvi. Siri is 7 years and Saanvi turned 5 today (13th Feb).

This is about me about my professional and personal life.

Nagarathna
The Indian Air force is the world’s fourth best and largest operational airforce.
The first three are

USA, Russia and China.

Giving true impetus to Make in India and making us all proud .. DRDO

Joined Aeronautical development establishment –DRDO, then completed Diploma in E & TC ...
Presently working as technical officer in ADE. And I am the in charge of Printed circuit board design
group.

First thing I dream, plan and take action to convert my dreams into reality... Leading a happy family...

Tony Jayakumar

Worked in Flextronics Bangalore & then Chennai until 2007, then moved NMTronics India Pvt ltd &
working until now.

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Married to his lovely wife Mary and blessed with two sons, Kelvin David and Alan David

Juliet
It doesn’t matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop - Confucius

Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world - Nelson Mandela

Joined Motorola in her teens, immediately after technical education of I.T.I ( 2 years). During her
tenure in Motorola pursued diploma in electronics as well as took up Bachelor of arts which was a
passion to explore subjects of Economics, English literature and public Administration. Motorola was
a great support to pursue my education
After Motorola joined defence enterprise "Bharat Electronics" and alongside completed her B.A
followed it up with a Bachelor of Engineering in evening college. Wow.. against all odds completed
all her educational dreams.

Rajeshwari

Today our mind sets are locked up in the past. We need to use technology and
redesign everything around us - Sam Pitroda, founder C-DoT

After Motorola joined C-DOT and continues to be in the field of revolutionising the Indian Telecom.
Married to Keshav , Audit Manager at Frontier Business Systems has two beautiful daughters Disha
and Greeshma

Srinivas Krishnadas

Completed his engineering, PGDBA and PMP certification while continuing to work for Hewlett
Packard in his quest to take up more challenging assignments for the benefits of the organization as
well as to enhance his skills in the true Motorolan spirit.

Usha Bhaskaran

"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you
become someone worth becoming." — Jim Rohn

How can a Motorolan not like to take Six Sigma forward! In her pursuit of excellence like the six
sigma way, worked hard to develop relevant education, certification to become Lean Six sigma
exponent and since then has been working with process excellence, business excellence space to
improve bottom line of the organization using Lean and Six Sigma techniques. The ultimate
satisfaction of a Six Sigma maniac is becoming a Master Black belt which she did. She is a proud Sr
Manager (Lean Consultant) having worked at Flextronics India, Elcoteq Electronics India and
currently associated with HCL Technologies.

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Ashwini

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Power is gained by sharing knowledge and not hoarding it.

After taking VRS in 1998, joined G-NIIT course but midway along hopped into Kshema
Technologies to lead a team of close to 50 people involved in data processing for Healthcare domain.
Then joined Honeywell Technology Solutions in Bangalore and played various roles - org level and
project level roles in 6.5 years. I joined MindTree Consulting to lead competency development
initiative and was working in MindTree for 1.5 years.

For a little more than 8 years now - I work as a freelance corporate trainer and consultant in the area
of Project Management, Business Analysis and Quality management.

I am a Six Sigma Black Belt, certified by Honeywell. I am a certified PMP and ACP by PMI.

Apart from India, I conduct PMP and ACP training predominantly in South-East Asian countries like
Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and occasionally in middle east countries. I provide
consulting services in the area of quality framework implementation like CMMi.

In my spare time, I help those companies in Small segment (who cannot afford to pay for services) to
implement ISO and guide them in the journey of ISO certification and re-certification.

I am very proud to say that, lot of things that I have pursued and achieved is due to the seeds that were
sown by Motorola - be it like Six Sigma certification, Trainer.

Narasimha Murthy (Man murthy for us)

Don’t quit attitude

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, when the roads you are trudging
seems all uphill.

When the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile but you
have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit, rest if you must but don’t
you quit.

Don’t give up when the pace seems slow you may succeed with another.

So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit, It’s when things seems worst you
must not quit.

After working with Motorola for Six Motorola, I had the fortune of working with Great companies
like Compaq, HP, Sasken, Symphony, Tech Mahindra and Xchanging. Now working with Infineon
Technologies as Head of Quality and Delivery Excellence. Considers association with Motorola a
great experience and a platform to build confidence and learning. Transitioned from hardcore
Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering Experience, I have transitioned myself into Software
Industry in the area of Quality management, Process Excellence, Information Security,
Industrialisation and Program Management areas. For past 13 years, I have covered depth and
breadth of Quality Management in Software

One of the few who has a great connect with Professional bodies outside of his work and has been a
significant contributor for the Industry through his association with Professional bodies like QCFI,

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CII, BSPIN, IIIE including holding positions starting from Honourable Secretary, treasurer, Vice
Chairman and Chairman for Karnataka Chapter. I was also the panel member of Senior Assessors of
CII Business Excellence Model in India and Member of National Council for driving Industrial
Engineering profession in India.
I have led and convened Four National Conventions as a part of my professional association.
Considering My significant contribution in the area of Industrial Engineering, IIIE has honoured me
with three National Awards namely Fellowship award, Firodia award and Dr. S R Gollapudi Award.
Apart from this professional contribution, VTU( Visveswaraiah Technological University) has
nominated me as an Industry Expert for setting up Syllabus (Panel Member of Board of Studies) for
IEM Course of Engineering at RV University, BMS and Dayananda University.
I have acquired MS from BITS Pilani and currently, pursuing my PhD from BITS Pilani.
Has a son and a daughter

Poornima Katti
If you can read this, thank your Teacher

A teacher takes a HAND, opens a MIND and touches a HEART.

Joined the famous Raman Research Institute and then decided to play the role of the loving mother to
two children and then is doing the noble deed of training children, the wealth of India as a teacher in
Vidya Niketan school, Hebbal, Bangalore.

VENKATESHA.S

Our goal is perfection.
Excellence will be tolerated. - Sim Kay Wee
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to
right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."
Steve Jobs

Quietly efficient and diligent Venkatesh, joined Flextronics and then shifted to Nokia to Bosch
Automotive electronics. Remembers his employee ID 94023. Believes in perfection in whatever he
does and like a true Motorolan Quality has become part of his blood. He shares some of life’s lessons
with us here
- Think twice before you do
- do it right the first time
-Just believe in what you do and results will follow

Sumithra K

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No matter what happens some memories can never be replaced

Has been with C-DOT. Married to Surendran.S , Blessed with beautiful daughter Sanchita.

Loves the work she did in Motorola. What she remembers about Motorola…..work culture, good
manufacturing practices , ESD , Six Sigma Quality , not to forget the ultimate Team building spirit
and many more. God ~s blessing and the work experience got in Motorola are two main effects on
her life. My first job I love it till my last breath.

Balaji

Take risks, be bold and let your genius convert your fear into power and
brilliance . Robert T Kiyosaki

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise –Benjamin
Franklin

I pursued mydream in Telecom industry with Software testing @ Sasken, then moved on to
Healthcare IT with GE & Philips. My exposure of being part of Paging start up helped me to set up

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teams globally. Taking up risks and challenges became a DNA and it helped in growing teams that I
was leading both locally and Globally. The energy is infectious.
I also got an exiciting oppurtunity to work with a very aggressive assignment to build and deploy
Ecommerce solution for US 2nd largest Retailer and it indeed was a great experience. Here I could
recall the night out's we used to do at Motorola to meet the production targets and how we came
together as a team. These past learnings helped me to pull the team together in the function that I was
leading. The never say Die spirit and risk taking and conviction to dream big and achieve all of which
I got grounding from my Motorola days helped me a lot.

There are many a times when I recall and thank my leaders with whom I was associated in Motorola
who helped blend me to what I am today.. as I know I was one of the youngest to be part of the start
up team and being raw I can now reflect what a pain I would have been to my managers ... my
heartfelt gratitude to all who helped me become what I am today and also look forward to their
support in the coming days.

On the otherside... Motorola also helped me in becoming an early raiser... (1st sift effect may be) and
no time constraints .. I can now start early and also end up very late.. all due to the grounding I got
during my stint at Motorola.

My Key learnings during Motorola days (Top 3)
- Risk Taking & Seek challenges
- Effective communication & Presentation (TCS competetion as a platform)
- Team work

Eric D’Souza

Transitioned into Flextronics after Motorola and this was a great opportunity for me to learn business
tenets and gave excellent growth. Worked as Director Engineering and Projects. Key in growing the
business and set up 2 more factories and service center. Flextronics SEZ set up was main highlight.
Till 2006 Nov.

* In Nov 2006 joined Motorola India at Chennai for new factory set up at Sriperumbidur for Mobile
manufacturing. Joined as Senior Engineering Manager and later was Director - Operations with
overall plant management responsibly.

* In Mar 2011 decided to leave Motorola Chennai to return to Bangalore to be with family. Joined GE
Healthcare as Plant Manager. New type of business with high regulatory and quality challenges.

Shrikanth RD

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence
…Hellen Keller (Who came up with the brail)

Worked for Flextronics and from there on till date with Lenovo India Pvt Ltd – Pondicherry.

Motorola experience gave lot of inspiration and during Flextronics days realized that I have the
potential to outgrow but I have not. Keeping the aim high worked hard, applied all theories learnt
during past years and trained myself to take up larger roles and succeeded in every small steps.

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Persistence and perseverance are the key factors which have helped me to achieve and raise the bar
again and again. Always believed “ Hum honge kaamyaab ek din”.( Will succeed one day for sure),
हम होंगे कामयाब एक दिन.

Believed that people are key assets and worked to be with people, for the people, collaborated to the
max and achieved results.

Rakesh Tergundi

Our own version of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Be Paranoid of success, never take it for granted, realize success can be
temporary and transient – Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Here's my story on what I've been up to after I left the Motorola factory...
1999-2004 Motorola Singapore - Next Gen Supply Chain projects
2005- Moved back to Motorola India - Moto Networks and Solutions

2007- Called to setup Motorola Chennai factory, took it on as addl responsibility, traveling back and
forth Blr-Chennai, worked with Eric, Henry, Nakkina, Bala..
2011-14 - I setup a 80 member Global IT Delivery Center for Motorola in Blr
2014 - Quit Motorola and started Bizmobile, leveraging my experience with Supply Chain IT.
2015- Bizmobile created eBuySell - a B2B platform with Mobile Apps for Businesses in Pharma,
FMCG, Logistics, Supply Chain and Micro-finance.
2016 - We are a small, bootstrapped company and employ 8 people. We provide apps to businesses -
Distributors of products from Patanjali, Jockey, Orgtree, Oppo mobile, etc. We also have apps for
Real Estate and Logistics for which we provide the technology for them to go mobile for their
businesses.
Currently co-founder and CEO at Bizmobile IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Wife: Aparna - Delivery Manager at IBM, has been the rock solid support in my journey as an
entrepreneur.
Son: Tanmay, 10 Years old - studies in Valley School.

Jagdish R

Interesting life after Motorola. Followed fellow colleague to Precision Interconnect and then
switched over to Wipro into software and hardware.
Took to spiritual lessons and served as chief operating officer for Akshaya Patra Foundation ,
serving 15 lacs meals to students in 10000 schools and 11 states in India. Thoroughly fulfilling
job.
Since then back into the corporate world of assets, money and ROI… Enjoying every bit.

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Have a doctor daughter, Engineer son-in law, violinist son and an aspiring entrepreneur and a
Reiki healer and counsellor wife.

Celebrate the Spirit of the Motorolans to Excel

Total customer satisfaction in everything we do

On the first day, as President, Abraham Lincoln entered to give his
inaugural address, just in the middle, one man stood up. He was a rich
aristocrat.

He said, "Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make
shoes for my family". And the whole senate laughed; they thought they had
made a fool of Abraham Lincoln.

But Lincoln - and that type of people are made of a totally different
mettle. Lincoln looked at the man and said, "Sir I know that my father
used to make shoes in your house for your family, and there will be many
other here... because the way he made shoes; nobody else can. He was a
creator. His shoes were not just shoes, he poured his whole soul in it. I

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want to ask you, have you any complaint? Because I know how to make shoes
myself; if you have any complaint I can make another pair of shoes. But as
far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father's shoes. He was
genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father".

Leaders turned their biggest weakness in life into biggest strength.

Going against the grain takes lots of guts and convection, going against the
grain takes lots of guts and convection and that’s what is called the leadership.

We got the title from these extraordinary people who always put little bit extra
even “when it hurts”

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