Jim Wicks, Motorola Mobility design brain behind RAZR, Moto G leaves the company


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The veteran design lead for Motorola Mobility, Jim Wicks is leaving the company and heading to Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering next month. Now, Wicks position will be replaced by another Lenovo executive, Ruben Castano.

Wicks spent 15 years at Motorola since 2001 and out of which he headed Design for over 12 years. He was the brain behind Moto RAZR, Moto G, Moto X and Moto 360 etc. He worked with Sony and Sapient before that.

Chairman of Motorola Mobility and Co-President of Lenovo’s Mobile Business Group, Aymar de Lencquesaing, said :

“We greatly appreciate Jim’s contributions in leading a consumer experience design team that delivered standout, iconic, and award-winning industrial design and user experiences for Moto’s mobile and wearable products.”

Lencquesaing further added:

“To move us forward, we have an ideal leader on board, Ruben Castano, who will continue our design team’s success.”

Ruben Castano joined Motorola back in October of 2005 as Design Manager in Chicago. He moved up to Design Director in July of 2008 for Motorola in China and later moved back to Chicago as Senior Design Director in 2012. But now he works at Motorola Sao Paulo unit as Senior Design Director since 2014.

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