Paul Jacobs
Executive Vice President and President, QUALCOMM Wireless and Internet Group, QUALCOMM

Dr. Paul E. Jacobs is group president of QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group. In this role, Jacobs oversees QUALCOMM Internet Services, QUALCOMM Technology Licensing, QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions and QUALCOMM Digital Media. Dr. Jacobs is also responsible for overseeing standards organization as well as corporate engineering.

Previously, Dr. Jacobs served as executive vice president of QUALCOMM. He was responsible for leading QUALCOMM Consumer Products, QUALCOMM's CDMA handset business, from 1995 through its sale to Kyocera Wireless in 2000. In 2001, Jacobs helped conceive the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW™) applications platform, now part of QUALCOMM Internet Services.

Dr. Jacobs initiated the technology development and negotiated the agreement that led to the formation of Wireless Knowledge Inc., now a majority owned subsidiary of QUALCOMM. Dr. Jacobs served as a board member of QUALCOMM Personal Electronics, a manufacturing joint venture between QUALCOMM and Sony Corporation. He is CEO of QCP Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of QUALCOMM, providing contracted design and distribution services to Kyocera Wireless Corporation.

From 1990 through 1995, Dr. Jacobs held positions in QUALCOMM's engineering organization. He led the technical team that developed the variable rate 8 kbps speech codec for CDMA, which led to one of over 25 patents belonging to Jacobs in the area of wireless technology and devices. Dr. Jacobs also led QUALCOMM's efforts to standardize the speech codec.

Dr. Jacobs received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.