Qualcomm Appoints Steve Mollenkopf Executive Vice President and Group President

"I congratulate Steve on his promotion to executive vice president and group president," said Dr. Jacobs. "His outstanding leadership of QCT has enabled Qualcomm to expand its business and deliver innovative new products to market. Aligning our current and future technology development activities for QCT, QIS and QMT under Steve's executive oversight will further strengthen the Company's ability to successfully navigate an increasingly complex and competitive market."

Mollenkopf began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as an engineer and was a contributor to the Globalstar project before joining the QCT team in 1999. Mollenkopf led the development of Qualcomm's UMTS family of air interface technologies before transitioning to a business role in 2007. In 2008, he was promoted to executive president and president of QCT. Mollenkopf holds two electrical engineering degrees, including a BSEE from Virginia Tech and an MSEE from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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