ZAGG Inc. named Chris Ahern president of Mophie LLC, its Tustin-based subsidiary.
He reports to the parent company’s chief executive, Randy Hales, who’d served as the smartphone battery case maker’s interim president since November.
Shawn Dougherty, who co-founded mophie in 2005 with Daniel Huang, held the president’s title prior to the $100 million sale of the brand last year to Salt Lake City-based ZAGG.
Ahern, who most recently served as president of ZAGG’s international business unit, “successfully led” integration of ZAGG and mophie’s international teams.
He was at Dell Corp. from 1999 to 2014 as director of sales operations for Dell Products Europe before joining ZAGG.
Last year was “a transition year for mophie.” Its sales added up to $34.4 million in the quarter ending Dec. 31.
“We executed a number of initiatives to strengthen the business,” Hales said in a statement about ZAGG’s fourth-quarter earnings. “We appointed a new president, implemented operational improvements, and right-sized the business to position mophie for a strong turn-around in 2017.”
—Mediha DiMartino
