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> Mr. Fadell will be succeeded by Marwan Fawaz, a former executive vice president of Motorola Mobility

> In the troubled Motorola acquisition, Mr. Fawaz led a financial bright spot, Motorola Home, a television set-top box business. He pared its product line, cut costs and oversaw its sale in 2013 for $2.35 billion to the Arris Group, a cable television equipment maker.

From the NY times article -

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/technology/tony-fadell-nes...

seems like we can reasonably expect him to come in swinging the axe again, then.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marwanfawaz

I think this should not be downvoted as people can learn a lot about someone's professional career by skimming through their LinkedIn profile.

Marwan Fawaz used to run Motorola Home. It didn't really have much to do with "Home" in the sense of Nest though.

Well TV Set Top Boxes are in the same bucket of "home appliances" for me.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was CEO for Motorola's Home division at some point.

He was an advisor for an analytics startup I used to work for. Really unimaginative and uninspiring. Zero vision. I was very surprised how he was appointed as an advisor (and got a good chunk of equity).