Kanwalinder Singh is senior vice president of business development, new markets for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT). He is responsible for driving Qualcomm’s chipset business in the “machine-to-machine” (M2M) space, with focus on Smart Automotive and Smart Energy domains. Singh is responsible for QCT’s strategy, relationships and business development in these domains, solutions development with Qualcomm’s chipset customers and partners and chipset and reference design roadmaps. He is based in San Diego, California.
Singh joined Qualcomm in 2004 as president, Qualcomm India and South Asia. He was instrumental in bringing a focus on emerging markets to enable affordable sub-$20 CDMA handsets and sub-$25 EV-DO/HSPA wireless broadband devices. 3G auctions in India, which led to WCDMA/HSPA deployments in 2010, was a highlight during his tenure. Under Singh’s leadership, Qualcomm made a winning bid in India’s BWA auction in 2010 to secure top markets including Delhi and Mumbai, and established LTE TDD as the compatible roadmap for EVDO and HSPA operators in India. He extended Qualcomm’s partnerships beyond operators to the Open Market and private brands in India, and championed commercialization of the CDMA Open Market Handset (OMH) initiative. Singh also developed successful ecosystem relationships and expanded Qualcomm Ventures’ portfolio to India with strategic investments in Apalya and MapMyIndia.
Between 2000 and 2004, Singh was chief technical officer with Lucent Technologies India Ltd. Prior to that, he held various technical and managerial positions in Bell Laboratories and product units over an 11-year tenure at Lucent Technologies in New Jersey.
Singh completed a masters degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA and Ph.D. coursework in computer and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He is a graduate of the Executive Development Program at Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania.
