Dropbox Confirms It Has Hired Dennis Woodside

As The Wall Street Journal and Re/code reported last night, Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside is becoming COO at Dropbox, the company confirmed today. It’s unclear why it did not simply do so last night. Here’s Dropbox CEO Drew Houston’s statement: “We’ve long admired Dennis’s leadership at Google and Motorola where he ran multi-billion dollar businesses and built amazing organizations around the world. We’re so happy to welcome Dennis to our team — I can’t imagine a better person to help us bring Dropbox to global scale.”

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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