To all: Since management is a key ingredient in the success of a company undergoing hypergrowth, you might be interested in reviewing Dr. Irwin Jacobs' resume:
IRWIN MARK JACOBS
EDUCATION:
Irwin Mark Jacobs received the B.E.E. degree in 1956 from Cornell University and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957 and 1959, respectively.
EXPERIENCE:
On July 1, 1985, Dr. Jacobs became a founder and the Chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM Incorporated. He has led
QUALCOMM through a period of rapid growth to over 10,000 employees, with international activities in digital wireless
telephony and mobile satellite communications and internet software.
Previously, as Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Dr. Jacobs guided the growth of LINKABIT
from a few part-time employees in 1969 to more than 1,400 employees in 1985 located in San Diego, Boston, and
Washington, D.C. Linkabit merged with M/A-COM in August 1980.
From 1959 to 1966, Dr. Jacobs was an Assistant/Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and from 1966 to 1972 a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San
Diego (UCSD). He is co-author of "Principles of Communication Engineering" (1965), the first comprehensive textbook on
digital communications.
Dr. Jacobs serves on the National Academy of Engineering Industry Advisory Board and is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has
received Entrepreneur of the Year awards from Cornell University and Entrepreneur of the Year Institute. In May 1993, he
received the American Electronics Association (AEA) "Inventing America's Future" award. In 1994, Dr. Jacobs received the
National Medal of Technology Award, which is the highest award bestowed by the President of the United States for
extraordinary achievements in the commercialization of technology or the development of human resources that foster
technology commercialization. In 1995, he was selected as the recipient of the 1995 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. He
was awarded "Person of the Year" by Radio Communications Report as the person who most impacted the wireless industry
in 1996 with the launch of CDMA technology. He was also awarded the Albert Einstein Award by the American Society of
Technion in 1996 for outstanding leadership in Society, community and business with the State of Israel. In September 1998,
he received the American Electronics Association's Medal of Achievement Award.
He is active in community affairs, currently serving or having served on the Boards of the University of California President's
Engineering Advisory Council, UCSD Foundation Board of Trustees, UCSD Green Foundation for Earth Sciences, Council
on Competitiveness, California Council on Science and Technology, San Diego Symphony and San Diego Repertory Theatre.
The Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD is named in recognition of the couple's $15 million endowment
support of the school. |
