QUALCOMM




Board of Directors

 

DR. IRWIN MARK JACOBS, Chairman of the Board
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, one of the founders of the Company, has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since the Company began operations in July 1985. Dr. Jacobs served as chief executive officer of the Company until July 2005. He served as the Company's president prior to May 1992. Before joining the Company, Dr. Jacobs was executive vice president and a director of M/A-COM. From October 1968 to April 1985, Dr. Jacobs held various executive positions at LINKABIT (M/A-COM LINKABIT after August 1980), a company he co-founded. During most of his period of service with LINKABIT, Dr. Jacobs was chairman, president and chief executive officer and was at all times a director. Dr. Jacobs received his B.E.E. degree from Cornell University and his M.S. and Sc.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1994. More  

BARBARA T. ALEXANDER
Barbara T. Alexander became a Director of the company in August 2006. A former senior advisor at UBS Securities and managing director at Dillon Reed & Co., Ms. Alexander's career spans more than 30 years in finance. Her distinguished career includes numerous international investment companies and philanthropic organizations. In 1987, Salomon Brothers Inc. appointed Ms. Alexander the first female managing director in the company's history. She was previously among the top investment bankers at Dillon Reed & Co. Inc., serving clients throughout North America, Australia and the United Kingdom. Alexander held additional senior executive and advisor positions with Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Inc., Wachovia Bank & Trust Company N.A. and UBS Securities. She currently serves on the boards of Harrah's Entertainment, Centex Corporation and Freddie Mac. In addition to her corporate activities, Ms. Alexander is an executive fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, has served on the boards of Habitat for Humanity International and Covenant House, and currently serves on the board of HomeAid America. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical mathematics.

DONALD G. CRUICKSHANK
Sir Donald Gordon Cruickshank has served as a Director of the Company since June 2005. He was Chairman of Clinovia Group Ltd. from 2004 to 2006 and Formscape Group Ltd. from 2003 to 2006 and has been a member of the Financial Reporting Council, the body responsible in the U.K. for oversight of the Accountancy and Actuarial professions and for corporate governance standards, since 2002. Sir Donald has extensive experience in a number of areas, including European regulation and telecommunications. His career has included assignments at McKinsey & Co. Inc., Times Newspapers, Virgin Group plc., Wandsworth Health Authority and the National Health Service in Scotland. Sir Donald served as Chairman of the London Stock Exchange plc. from 2000 to 2003 and as Director General of the U.K.’s Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) from 1993 to 1998. From 1997 to 2000 he served as Chairman of Action 2000, the U.K.’s Millennium Bug campaign. In 1998, Chancellor Gordon Brown appointed him as Chairman of the Government’s Review of the U.K. banking sector and from 1999 to 2004, he served as Chairman of SMG plc. one of Scotland’s leading broadcasters. Sir Donald is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has received M.A. and L.L.D. degrees from the University of Aberdeen, and a M.B.A. degree from Manchester Business School.

RAYMOND V. DITTAMORE
Raymond V. Dittamore has served as a Director of the Company since December 2002. Mr. Dittamore is a retired audit partner of Ernst & Young LLP, an international public accounting firm. Mr. Dittamore retired in 2001 after 35 years of service with that firm, including 14 years as the managing partner of the firm's San Diego office. Mr. Dittamore is a director of Invitrogen Corporation, Gen-Probe Incorporated and Applied Molecular Evolution. Mr. Dittamore received his B.S. from San Diego State University.

DR. PAUL E. JACOBS
Dr. Paul E. Jacobs became a Director of the Company in June 2005 and now serves as its chief executive officer. Dr. Jacobs has been the primary driver of the Company's focus on enabling wireless data. Dr. Jacobs has held numerous engineering and management positions since joining the Company fulltime in 1990. In 1995, Dr. Jacobs became vice president and general manager of the combined handset and integrated circuit division. He was named senior vice president of the Company in 1996 and president of the Company's Consumer Products division in 1997. Dr. Jacobs was named executive vice president of the Company in 2000 and group president of Company's Wireless & Internet group in 2001. Dr. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. More  

DR. ROBERT E. KAHN
Dr. Robert E. Kahn became a Director of the Company in February 1997. Dr. Kahn is chairman, chief executive officer and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986. From 1972 to 1985, Dr. Kahn was employed at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where his last position was director of the Information Processing Techniques Office. From 1966 to 1972, Dr. Kahn was a senior scientist with Bolt Beranek and Newman, where he was responsible for the system design of the Arpanet, the first packet switched network. Dr. Kahn received numerous awards for his pioneering work on the Internet for which he received the 1997 National Medal of Technology. Dr. Kahn received a B.E.E. degree from the City College of New York and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn holds numerous honorary degrees and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

SHERRY LANSING
Sherry Lansing became a Director of the Company in September 2006. Ms. Lansing is the founder and chair of the Sherry Lansing Foundation, a philanthropic organization focusing on cancer research, health and education. From 1992 to 2005, she was the chair of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures where she oversaw the release of more than 200 films, including Academy Award® winners Forrest Gump, Braveheart and Titanic. From 1984 to 1990 she operated her own production company, Lansing Productions and co-founded Jaffe/Lansing Productions. In 1980, she became the film industry's first female to oversee all aspects of a studio's motion picture production when she was appointed president of production at 20th Century Fox. She holds additional trustee, chair and advisory positions with the Friends of Cancer Research, the American Association of Cancer Research, the American Red Cross Board of Governors, the Carter Center and Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer. Ms. Lansing also is a regent of the University of California and serves as chair of the University Health Services Committee. She has earned the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, the Distinguished Community Service Award from Brandeis University, the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Memorial Award, the Horatio Alger Humanitarian Award, and an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the American Film Institute. She received her B.S. degree from Northwestern University.

DUANE A. NELLES
Duane A. Nelles, a certified public accountant, became a Director of the Company in August 1988. Mr. Nelles has been in the personal investment business since 1987. Prior to that time, Mr. Nelles was a partner in the international public accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, LLP, which he joined in 1968. Mr. Nelles is also a director of WFS Financial Inc., an automotive finance company, and Westcorp Inc., a diversified financial services holding company. He received his M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan.

PETER M. SACERDOTE
Peter M. Sacerdote became a Director of the Company in October 1989. Mr. Sacerdote has been an advisory director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. since May 1999 where he also serves as chairman of the Investment Committee of its Principal Investment Area. In the five years prior to that time, he served as a limited partner of Goldman, Sachs Group, L.P. Mr. Sacerdote also serves as a director of Franklin Resources, Inc., a mutual fund management company and Hexcel Corporation, a materials manufacturer. Mr. Sacerdote received his B.E.E. degree from Cornell University and an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

GENERAL BRENT SCOWCROFT
General Brent Scowcroft became a Director of the Company in December 1994. General Scowcroft is the president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international business consulting firm he founded in June 1994. General Scowcroft is also the president of the Forum for International Policy, a non-profit organization that he founded in 1993 that promotes American leadership and foreign policy. General Scowcroft served as assistant to the president for national security affairs for President George Bush from January 1989 until January 1993; he also held that position for President Ford during his term. A retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general, General Scowcroft served in numerous national security posts in the Pentagon and the White House prior to his appointments as assistant to the president for national security affairs. General Scowcroft received his B.S. degree from West Point and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University and holds numerous honorary degrees.

MARC I. STERN
Marc I. Stern became a Director of the Company in February 1994. Mr. Stern has been with The TCW Group, Inc., an asset management firm, since 1990 and has served as its president since 1992. From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Stern served as president and a director of SunAmerica, Inc., a financial services company. Prior to joining SunAmerica, Mr. Stern was managing director and chief administrative officer of The Henley Group, Inc., a diversified manufacturing company, and prior to that Mr. Stern was senior vice president of Allied-Signal Inc., a diversified manufacturing company. Mr. Stern is chairman of TCW Galileo Funds, Inc., a registered investment company. Mr. Stern received a B.A. degree from Dickinson College, an M.A. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Public Law and Government and a J.D. degree from the Columbia University School of Law.


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