#585 From Sales to CEO with Bill Burns, Chief Product & Solutions Officer at Zebra Technologies
Today we’re talking to Bill Burns, Chief Product & Solutions Officer at Zebra Technologies; and we discuss Bill’s journey from sales to CEO; how the on-demand is evolving alongside technology; and why listening to customers first is the key to success.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Check out more of Bill and Zebra at https://www.zebra.com/us/en.html!
About Bill Burns:
Comprehensive experience with a proven track record leading corporations and business units focused on bringing commercially successful products and services to market that deliver unique business value through anticipating market demand, strategic planning, financial analysis, product development, execution of marketing and sales strategies, customer relationship building and a ‘must-win’ attitude.
Repeated success achieving aggressive financial goals through building, mentoring, motivating and leading high-performance organizations. Extensive leadership experience in dynamic, challenging and multicultural business environments with a focus on distinct markets, customer segments and technologies.
About Zebra:
Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) empowers organizations to thrive in the on-demand economy by making every front-line worker and asset at the edge visible, connected and fully optimized. With an ecosystem of more than 10,000 partners across more than 100 countries, Zebra serves customers of all sizes – including 94% of the Fortune 100 – with an award-winning portfolio of hardware, software, services and solutions that digitize and automate workflows.
Supply chains are more dynamic, customers and patients are better served, and workers are more engaged when they utilize Zebra innovations that help them sense, analyze and act in real time. In 2021, Zebra expanded its industrial automation portfolio with its Fetch Robotics acquisition and increased its machine vision and AI software capabilities with the acquisitions of Adaptive Vision and antuit.ai.
Zebra is #25 on Newsweek’s inaugural list of America’s Most Loved Workplaces and on Forbes’ list of America’s best employers for the fifth year.