Andrew Gill: leading by serving

Andrew Gill has worked for Motorola for almost exactly 20 years, starting his time there in the "boom years of rolling out GSM networks" before becoming part of the company's public safety business "what is now Motorola Solutions - where he was focused on its new solutions such as body-worn video, software PTT, and command and control products. So why has he decided to leave the comfort of the familiar for something new?

"[It was] the opportunity to have more influence over a smaller business and to run my own show," he explains. "Tait EMEA is part of a New Zealand corporation, but as my new boss and Tait's CEO [Garry Diack] has said: New Zealand is an awfully long way away and we will be given the opportunity to develop as a region and invest in the region as a regional management team. That was hugely attractive to me." Another reason for the move was that it allows Gill to get to know a group of customers better than was possible in his previous role.