--- title: "Qualcomm Appoints Sergio Buniac as Executive Vice President and Group General Manager, Mobile, Compute, and Personal AI" url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/08/qualcomm-appoints-sergio-buniac-as-executive-vice-president-and-" canonicalUrl: "https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2026/08/qualcomm-appoints-sergio-buniac-as-executive-vice-president-and-" publishedDate: "Aug 20, 2026" newsroomType: "Press Note" location: "SAN DIEGO" tags: ["Company"] --- # Qualcomm Appoints Sergio Buniac as Executive Vice President and Group General Manager, Mobile, Compute, and Personal AI Press Note Aug 20, 2026 | SAN DIEGO ![Qualcomm-image](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/sergio-buniac?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha) Qualcomm Incorporated today announced the appointment of Sergio Buniac as executive vice president and group general manager of Mobile, Compute and Personal AI, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., effective September 2. In this role, Buniac will oversee the smartphone, personal computing, smart wearables and XR businesses, including a new generation of AI devices. He will report directly to Cristiano Amon, president and chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. "Sergio is a proven business leader with more than 30 years of experience in the mobile industry," said Amon. "He has a strong record of driving innovation, transforming and growing businesses, and leading through significant industry transitions. Sergio also brings expertise in building compelling consumer devices from design to commercialization, globally. We are pleased to have Sergio join Qualcomm and he will be instrumental as we expand experiences powered by Snapdragon® platforms in the age of agentic AI." Buniac joins Qualcomm following more than three decades at Motorola, where he served in a range of regional and worldwide leadership roles spanning strategy, product, sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain. Since 2018, Buniac was the President of Motorola Devices. ## About Qualcomm Qualcomm is a global computing leader at the center of the AI era, enabling intelligence to scale from the most personal devices to large‑scale infrastructure. Building on more than four decades of innovation, we develop platforms and solutions that bring together advanced AI, high‑performance, low power computing and industry‑leading connectivity—powering products and services used around the world. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. 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