People - 25/03/07

Motorola names Greg Brown as president and COO; names Thomas J. Meredith to acting CFO, effective April 1. Motorola will lay off 3500 people.

NEC reshuffles its management:
Five promotion to executive officers:Konosuke Kashima, as Executive Vice President
Akihito Otake Executive Vice President
Susumu Otani Senior Vice President
Makoto Imai Senior Vice President and President
                 and CEO of NEC of America
Takao Ono Senior Vice President

Five new Corporate Officer:
Toyozo Hosoya, Associate Senior Vice President
Tadashi Higashino Associate Senior Vice President
Noboru Wakita Associate Senior Vice President
Toshiyuki Mineno Associate Senior Vice President and Head of NEC Europe
Akira Ito Associate Senior Vice President

Executives in charge of Business Units:
Toshimitsu Iwanami Domestic Sales Business Unit
Susumu Otani, Mobile Terminals Business Unit
Yoshikazu Maruyama IT Platform Business Unit
Botaro Hirosaki, Carrier Network Business Unit
Saburo Takizawa Enterprise Solutions Business Unit

Board Members:
4 Board Members are retiring: Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Shunichi Suzuki, Yasuo Matoi, Akira Uehara;
6 new Board members: Botaro Hirosaki, Akihito Otake, Toshimitsu Iwanami, Takao Ono, Kenji Miyahara, Hideaki Takahash;