-- Avneesh Agrawal to Depart
Qualcomm After 21 Years of Service --
SAN DIEGO, July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm
Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the appointment of
Sunil Lalvani as vice president and
president of Qualcomm India, and the departure of Avneesh Agrawal, senior vice president and
president of Qualcomm India and South
Asia. Lalvani's appointment will be effective July 27 and he will report directly to
Cristiano Amon, executive vice
president and co-president, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Lalvani has more than 20 years of experience in sales, business
development, strategic planning and business operations across the
IT and telecom sectors. He joins Qualcomm from BlackBerry, where he
served most recently as managing director of India and SAARC (South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation). In this role, Lalvani was responsible for
overseeing and driving BlackBerry's overall business strategy and
growth in India and was focused on
driving differentiated solutions for consumers and enterprise
customers. Lalvani was also instrumental in leading a strong
engagement with Carrier partners and ISV's in India, to drive uptake of BlackBerry's
services portfolio in the India
region.
Prior to that, Lalvani held the position of Director of
Enterprise Sales. Lalvani also has worked at EMC Corporation, Nokia
Corporation, Cisco Systems and SITA Equant Network (now Orange
Business Services). Lalvani holds a bachelor's degree in
electronics engineering from Bombay
University and a post graduate diploma in marketing
management from Xavier's Institute of Management, India.
"I am pleased to welcome Sunil
Lalvani as vice president and president of Qualcomm India.
His broad industry experience and extensive leadership experience
will enable us to strengthen existing strategic relationships,
identify new opportunities for business growth and build new
relationships in India," Amon
said. "Under Avneesh's leadership, Qualcomm led a number of
successful efforts to nurture the local ecosystem in India, including accelerating 3G smartphone
adoption and 4G LTE deployment, helping Indian brands build new
revenue streams and establishing Qualcomm as the premier technology
brand in India's telecom and
handset ecosystem. I'd like to thank Avneesh for all of his
contributions to these successes."
During his 21-year tenure, Agrawal has played a key role in many
of the Company's key technology initiatives including leading the
development of Qualcomm's first WCDMA and LTE chipsets, and has
played a crucial role in driving Qualcomm's business in
India and South Asia. In 2005 he assumed his role as
senior vice president of engineering, where under his direction,
the team has implemented a number of key initiatives to expand
Qualcomm's technology leadership and foster the mobile ecosystem in
India. He has been granted 159 US
patents. Avneesh is moving on to pursue his entrepreneurial
ambitions.
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