Ron Garriques leaves Motorola for Dell

Ron Garriques leaves Motorola for Dell

The head of Motorola Inc.’s cell phone business Ron Garriques has left the company as he would now be joining Dell.

Dell had announced his appointment as their president of a newly created global consumer division.

Motorola however declined to reveal the reason behind his leaving the company for another tech giant. The company has been faltering in their mobile phone business as rivals are increasingly becoming a bigger challenge to Motorola.

Motorola has now named Ray Roman, senior vice president of global sales, and Terry Vega, senior vice president of global devices, as interim co-heads of the cell phone business.

Motorola spokesman Paul Alfieri added: “All I can tell you is that he resigned and we did not make a counteroffer to retain him.”

Garriques would now become president of Dell’s consumer business. Alfieri further said: “We learned of this decision this morning and announced it as quickly as possible. We’re still pulling together exactly how we’re going to go about filling the position.”