Sanjay Jha

Sanjay Kumar Jhā (born 1963) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) of GlobalFoundries and former chairman and CEO of Motorola Mobility. Prior to that, he was the chief operating officer of Qualcomm. Early life Jha was born in 1963 in Sultanganj, India in a Hindu family. He received a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in electronics engineering from the University of Strathclyde. In 2011, Sanjay was awarded the honorary degree of D.Sc. by the University of Strathclyde. Career Jha began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as a senior engineer with the Qualcomm very-large-scale integration group working on the Globalstar satellite phone, and later on the first 13k vocoder application-specific integrated circuit, which was integrated into Qualcomm's MSM2200 chipset. In 1997 Jha was promoted to vice-president of engineering, where he was responsible for leading the integrated-circuit engineering group. Jha led and oversaw the development of five generations of modem and cell site chipsets, both digital baseband and RF (radio frequency), and system software. He was promoted to senior vice-president of engineering in 1998. In 2002 he led the formation of Qualcomm Technologies & Ventures, where he managed both the technology investment portfolio and the new technology group as senior vice-president and general manager. Jha became executive vice-president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies in 2003 and was appointed COO in December 2006.