I certainly didn’t see this coming! Sandra Lawrence will no longer be the president of iRobot Home Robots, effective May 16th, after a little more than a year with the company. According to iRobot she is leaving “to pursue other interests,” which is pablum. There has to be a MAJOR backstory here. Lawrence was touted as someone who could bring consumer sensibility (she had been a Gillette exec) to an engineering-heavy firm, and now she’s gone after a year with no obvious or clear impact on the co
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