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Left, Invoice Burns, Zebra’s new CEO, and Anders Gustafsson, the Government Chair of the Zebra Board of Administrators. | Supply: Zebra Applied sciences

Zebra Applied sciences Company, the guardian firm of autonomous cell robotic maker Fetch Robotics, introduced that it could be making Invoice Burns, its present Chief Product and Options Officer, the brand new CEO of the corporate, and a member of the Zebra Board of Administrators.

Burns will succeed Anders Gustafsson within the position of CEO, who will transition to being the Government Chair of the Zebra Board of Administrators. The change in management will take impact on March 1, 2023. Michael Smith, Zebra’s Board Chair, can even develop into Zebra’s Lead Impartial Director. 

“Anders has created a robust, inclusive tradition primarily based on our firm values. I’m dedicated to constructing on this momentum to draw, develop and retain the very best expertise globally,” Burns mentioned. “I stay up for driving Zebra’s continued development and additional advancing our strategic imaginative and prescient. I’m excited concerning the future and the alternatives to proceed to assist our clients as they digitize and automate their environments.”

Burns has beforehand served as CEO at Embrane, which was acquired by Cisco Methods in 2015, and Spirent Communications, a supplier of automated check 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 broaden 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. Throughout 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 necessity to digitize operations stays a strategic focus for our clients globally. Now greater than ever, our clients want our options to enhance workflows throughout their broader provide chains,” Gustafsson mentioned. “Invoice is the appropriate chief to proceed to advance our imaginative and prescient and additional elevate Zebra as a trusted advisor to our clients and companions in our vibrant core in addition to our high-growth adjoining and growth markets.”

Zebra acquired Fetch Robotics for $290 million in 2021. Fetch affords a portfolio of AMRs and cloud-based software program for deploying and integrating a spread of automated workflows. The businesses mentioned the acquisition would assist them combine know-how to attach human employees, instruments like hand-held scanners and self-navigating robots, and the software program that directs the movement of distribution, manufacturing and retail operations.