Motorola Solutions CEO and leadership

Greg Brown (born 26 February 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1960s.

Mark S. Hacker, 41, is senior vice president & general counsel of Motorola Solutions. He leads the company’s legal and government affairs team. Hacker joined Motorola in 2001 as a commercial counsel and previously was corporate vice president of commercial law for Motorola’s Sales & Product Operations. Prior to that, he was vice president of legal operations and also oversaw the company’s international legal teams. He has held a variety of other law leadership roles across Motorola’s business units. Prior to Motorola, Hacker was a corporate finance associate with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and an accountant with Arthur Andersen, both in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Illinois and Pennsylvania state bars, has been a CPA, and serves as a volunteer adjunct professor at Northwestern University Law School. Hacker is on the board of directors of the 100 Club of Chicago, an organization that provides for the families of police officers, firefighters and paramedics who have lost their lives in the line-of-duty. Hacker earned a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from Villanova University and a law degree from Villanova’s law school.

Cynthia Yazdi is senior vice president and chief of staff for the chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions. She also leads worldwide marketing and communications for the corporation, as well as the Motorola Solutions Foundation. Yazdi has held a variety of leadership positions in strategy and operations roles during her 19-year career with the company. Most recently, she led product and business operations for the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. She serves on the board of trustees of the Red Cross in Chicago and is president of the Young Professionals Group at Motorola Solutions. Yazdi earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Concordia University.

I lead technology innovation teams that start with a hard problem requiring basic research and end with award winning commercialized solutions. I am a published author with extensive R&D experience in machine learning, computer vision, data analytics, sensor technologies and distributed systems -- essential elements of AI and IoT systems.

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I was part of the Werner H. Kirsten internship program at the National Cancer Institute. I went on to get my doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University in machine learning while working with robots (two robots named Lewis and Clark). Lewis and Clark, outfitted with 5 cameras, were built for autonomous navigation, surveillance and reconnaissance. The realization of what is possible while continuously learning from rich visual sensory data, inspired me to co-found Broad Reach Security. Two years later, Broad Reach Security joined forces with GE to develop an award winning, state-of-the-art automated video analysis system. In 2007, I co-founded VideoIQ, a technology company focused on taking video analytics to the next level. VideoIQ was acquired by Avigilon in January, 2014 and I assumed the role of CTO of Avigilon. As CTO, I led R&D, product management, and advanced technology development. The combination of VideoIQ and Avigilon produced the leading end-to-end intelligent security platform in the industry. Avigilon was acquired by Motorola Solutions in 2018. I assumed the role of CTO in 2019 and have the privilege of leading an amazingly talented group of individuals working at the intersection of AI, Design, and Human-Computer Interaction.

Greg Brown (born 26 February 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the VFL during the 1960s.