Fran Foo | July 01, 2008
MOTOROLA Australia has tapped an internal executive to replace Spiros Nikolakopoulos as country manager.
Paul Blinkhorn will wear a third hat at Motorola - apart from running the Australian business, he will continue as Motorola Enterprise Mobility Australia and New Zealand vice-president andvice-president of Asia-Pacific channels.
Mr Blinkhorn joined Symbol Technologies in November 2006 as managing director for Australia-New Zealand.
Motorola completed its acquisition of Symbol in January 2007.
Prior to joining Symbol, Mr Blinkhorn ran Palm's Asia-Pacific business. He also spent more than a decade at Olivetti and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq in various leadership roles.
It is understood that Mr Nikolakopoulos left Motorola yesterday.