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ABOUT STEVEMOLLENKOPF Steve Mollenkopf is chief executive officer of Qualcomm Incorporated, and serves on the company’s board of directors. Mollenkopf began his Qualcomm career as an engineer and, for more than 25 years, has helped define and implement the company’s strategy and technologies. Since becoming CEO in 2014, Mollenkopf has worked to bring the benefits of mobile to new industries through an increasingly diverse product portfolio. Under Mollenkopf’s leadership, Qualcomm is driving the development and launch of 5G and revolutionizing the way people connect. Previously, Mollenkopf served as Qualcomm’s president and chief operating officer. In that role, he oversaw Qualcomm’s investment in technologies that propelled smartphones into the mainstream, including connectivity, computing, graphics, and multimedia. Prior to his role as president and COO, Mollenkopf led the company’schipsetbusiness,overseeingthelaunchof4Gtechnology. He helped make Qualcomm the world’s largest mobile chipset supplier and a global leader in LTE technology. He also spearheaded the company’s largest acquisition, the $3.1 billion purchase of chipmaker Atheros. The deal helped expand Qualcomm’s business beyond smartphones and accelerated the adoption of Qualcomm’s technologies and platforms in new segments. Mollenkopf is a published IEEE author and is an inventor on 38 patents in areas such as power estimation and measurement, multi- standard transmitters, and wireless communication transceiver technology. Mollenkopf is a member of The Business Council, Business Roundtable, and US-China Business Council. He is also a board member for Boeing and the Semiconductor Industry Association, and a past chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and Technology CEO Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. FIRM PROFILE Who isQualcomm, andwhat dowe do?We are engineers, scientists and business strategists. We are frommany different countries and speak many different languages. We come from diverse cultures and have unique perspectives. Together, we focus on a single goal— we invent breakthrough technologies that transformhow the world connects, computes, and communicates. While many of our breakthroughs reside “under the hood” of technology familiar to us today, our inventions have transformed the world in a big way. They have helped propel mobile to the forefront of the technology world and brought wireless innovations into new industries. They have created new opportunities for ecosystem players—the wireless device makers, the operators, the developers and the content creators of the world. And more recently, our inventions and breakthroughs have inspired fresh, new ideas from those companies—large and small. We’ve been called dreamers, inventors, rebels, risk takers, pioneers and geeks. We embrace those labels because in many ways, they’re true. We dream big. We invent bigger. And most importantly, we often do what many thought was impossible. Empowering people. Transforming communities. Protecting the planet. Steve Mollenkopf CEO Qualcomm Incorporated 41 - C A L I F O R N I A - www.qualcomm.com