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Padmasree Warrior
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Padmasree Warrior

(India born) American chemical engineer and business executive

Padmasree Warrior (born Yellepeddi Padmasree) is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she was the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years.2

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Born 1961.1

About

She also was the CEO of Nio USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Fable, a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She is on the board of directors of Microsoft and Spotify.

In 2014, she was listed as one of the 100 most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. In 2018 she was also featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.

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Companies

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedCornell University College of Engineering3
  • Date not recordedCornell University master's degree; chemical engineering3
  • Date not recordedIndian Institute of Technology Delhi Bachelor of Science; chemical engineering3

Yellepeddi Padmasree was born into a Telugu family in Vijayawada,Andhra Pradesh, India. She went to school at the Children's Montessori School and Maris Stella College in Vijayawada. Warrior received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from IIT Delhi in 1982. She holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson, chemical engineer.7

  • 2015 to 2023Board member, Microsoft5
  • Since 2007Worked at Cisco4
  • Since 1984Worked at Motorola4
  • Date not recordedChief technology officer6

Motorola

Warrior joined Motorola in 1984 Over the course of her 23 years at the company she was Corporate Vice-president and general manager of Motorola's Energy Systems Group, and Corporate Vice-president and Chief Technology Officer in its Semiconductor Products Sector. Immediately prior to becoming Motorola's CTO, she was general manager of Thoughtbeam, a product of Motorola, in Tempe, Arizona. When named Motorola's CTO in January 2003, Warrior became a senior vice-president and in 2005 she was promoted to executive vice-president.

During Warrior's tenure as CTO, Motorola was awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States, the first time the company had received this honour. During this period she was a proponent of "Seamless Mobility" – the concept of having seamless communication across all facets of a person's life. The dream was not fully realised and the concept was eventually dropped from Motorola marketing presentations.

Cisco

On 4 December 2007, she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems. She left Cisco in June 2015.

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NIO

She joined the Chinese electric car company, NIO Inc, in December 2015 as a board member and as CEO and chief development officer for NIO U.S. She resigned from NIO in December 2018.

Fable

In September 2019, Warrior founded a new startup, Fable, and is its president and CEO. In January 2021, Fable launched its app, a subscription-based book recommendation engine and private social network. Warrior has said they're working to improve cognitive fitness.

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Personal life

  • Born1961, Vijayawada8
  • CitizenshipIndia9

Warrior is married to Mohandas Warrior and has a son.

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Awards

  • 2007Women in Technology Hall of Fame10 11

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