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Gregory Brown

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Motorola

Search every verified Gregory Brown interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Gregory Brown, Chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, discussed his leadership approach and the company's recent performance in public appearances during the past two months. In a September 2026 podcast interview, Brown reflected on his nearly two decades leading Motorola through reinvention, including navigating activist investor pressure and private-equity involvement. He described how working with activists made him more accountable and shifted his mindset from "like a manager" to "like an owner." He also recounted a moment when he reacted bluntly to the board's consideration of selling the company, saying he told them, "Are you freaking kidding me?" and later apologized for the emotional delivery while standing by his content. Brown said he uses a "relief or regret" test to evaluate consequential decisions. On the company's second-quarter 2026 earnings call in August, Brown reported record sales and earnings, with revenue up 13% driven by double-digit growth in both segments and all three technologies. He noted a record ending backlog of $15.6 billion, up 11% year-over-year, and said the company was raising its full-year guidance for sales and EPS. Brown emphasized that AI has become "a need to have" embedded within the company's platforms rather than an add-on, and highlighted strength in the safety and security ecosystem, including new orders for body-worn camera and in-car video solutions from Florida Highway Patrol and Kansas City Police Department.

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“I reacted very negatively and very bluntly to the board and I said, 'Are you freaking kidding me? Are you kidding me? There is no buyer for this company and it's wrong. And if we run a process it'll leak to the journal. It'll cause unrest and further distraction. This is... And if you want to fire me, go ahead and fire me.' Which I would recommend for future use. Not something you should say to people you work for.”

“I think now we are a public safety national defense and enterprise security firm that does more than just public safety comms. So we sold systems or we sold devices largely to consumer or carrier. The public safety business, this jewel that was buried in the bowels of Motorola did systems, devices, software that interconnects the two bespoke and curated around workflow that public safety agencies, police, fire, ems c”

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