CEO, Scholar and Expert Forum

Room 1608, 2:30-4pm, Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Distinguished Speaker: Henry S. Lee
Vice President and Director
Account Management and Resource Planning
Global Software Group
Motorola, Inc.

As vice president and director of Account Management and Resource Planning, Global Software Group (GSG), at Motorola (2001 to present), Henry is responsible for marketing GSG’s software engineering capabilities to within Motorola Inc. With thousands of its resources strategically located in twenty-four major cities globally, GSG serves its clients in telecommunications, semiconductors, and computer technology industries. Under Henry’s leadership, GSG has been able to grow at a double digit rate despite low GDP growth and price pressure from Asian countries. More importantly, Henry has developed and automated a customer acquisition process, an innovated resources forecasting, allocating, and tracking system, to sustain the continuous growth of the organization.

Prior to GSG, Henry was vice president and director of Software Operations at Motorola’s mobile handset division (1996 to 2001). At the handset division, Henry was responsible for software development for all GSM products and was crucial to the company’s campaign in transforming its analogue product lines to digital. In 1999, Henry led Motorola to become the first manufacturer to introduce the digital packet data cellular phone which pioneered the common use of Internet on mobile phone. In 2000, his effort in common software platform for all handset products resulted in substantial cycle time and cost reduction and subsequently market share gains globally.

Before joining Motorola, Henry has held senior positions in marketing and engineering at the Switching and Computer Telephony Division of Rockwell International (1984 -1996). As director of international business development at Rockwell, Henry was responsible for channel development, strategic alliances, acquisitions, and divestiture initiatives. Under Henry’s leadership, Rockwell expanded its call center products from the U.S. and the U.K. to the rest of Europe. Henry was elected the Engineer of The Year (out of 13,000 engineers) in 1989 for his chief architect role for a nationwide computer telephony network. Prior to Rockwell, Henry has held various positions as designer and manager for digital switching networks at the AT&T Bell Laboratories (1980 – 1984) and the GTE Laboratories (1977 – 1980).

Among other community service activities, Henry taught evening classes at The DuPage College, Elmhurst College, and Illinois Benedictine University between 1982 and 1986. Henry is currently a member of the board for the Asian Business Council (with over 3000 members) at Motorola. As a board member, Henry advises on ABC’s strategies and special events. Henry is a member of the Board of Overseers at the Rice Campus of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Henry holds a Bachelors and a Masters of Science in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana (1977) and the Illinois Institute of Technology (1982) respectively. Henry is also a graduate of the Executive MBA program from the University of Chicago (1994).