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Left, Bill Burns, Zebra’s new CEO, and Anders Gustafsson, the Executive Chair of the Zebra Board of Directors. | Source: Zebra Technologies
Zebra Technologies Corporation, the mum or dad firm of autonomous cellular robotic maker Fetch Robotics, introduced that it could be making Bill Burns, its present Chief Product and Solutions Officer, the brand new CEO of the corporate, and a member of the Zebra Board of Directors.
Burns will succeed Anders Gustafsson within the position of CEO, who will transition to being the Executive Chair of the Zebra Board of Directors. The change in management will take impact on March 1, 2023. Michael Smith, Zebra’s Board Chair, may also turn out to be Zebra’s Lead Independent Director.
“Anders has created a strong, inclusive culture based on our company values. I am committed to building on this momentum to attract, develop and retain the best talent globally,” Burns mentioned. “I look forward to driving Zebra’s continued growth and further advancing our strategic vision. I’m excited about the future and the opportunities to continue to support our customers as they digitize and automate their environments.”
Burns has beforehand served as CEO at Embrane, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2015, and Spirent Communications, a supplier of automated take a look at and assurance options for cybersecurity. Burns joined Zebra in 2015 because the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Visibility and Mobility.
At Zebra, Burns has prolonged the corporate’s market share management and profitability throughout its core companies whereas serving to it to develop into adjoining markets.
Anders has spent 15 years as Zebra’s CEO and was solely the second CEO in Zebra’s greater than 50-year historical past. During his time as CEO, Anders helped to make the corporate a world chief in its core markets and advance the corporate’s imaginative and prescient of Enterprise Asset Intelligence.
“The need to digitize operations remains a strategic focus for our customers globally. Now more than ever, our customers need our solutions to improve workflows across their broader supply chains,” Gustafsson mentioned. “Bill is the right leader to continue to advance our vision and further elevate Zebra as a trusted advisor to our customers and partners in our vibrant core as well as our high-growth adjacent and expansion markets.”
Zebra acquired Fetch Robotics for $290 million in 2021. Fetch provides a portfolio of AMRs and cloud-based software program for deploying and integrating a spread of automated workflows. The firms mentioned the acquisition would assist them combine know-how to attach human staff, instruments like hand-held scanners and self-navigating robots, and the software program that directs the move of distribution, manufacturing and retail operations.