Qualcomm India appoints Larry Paulson as president

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US-based semiconductor giant announced the appointment of Larry Paulson as president of Qualcomm India.

Earlier, Sunil Lalvani, a BlackBerry veteran, was the India president of Qualcomm. Sunil Lalvani resigned from Qualcomm India in October 2016.

Larry Paulson, who has more than 20 years of experience in strategy, R&D, customer development, product marketing and technology creation, will report to Jim Cathey, senior vice president and president of Asia Pacific and India.

Larry Paulson joined Qualcomm in 2013 as vice president of product management for Qualcomm Reference Design (QRD), a product of the semiconductor business, QCT.

Most recently, Larry Paulson led the QCT Platforms organization and has expanded the Qualcomm Reference Design platform from the low tier to all MSM chipset tiers and into new categories, such as virtual reality.

Larry Paulson was instrumental in establishing Qualcomm Global Pass program in Latin America, North America, Europe, India and South East Asia.

Prior to Qualcomm, Larry Paulson was the executive vice president and chief marketing officer at BrightPoint.

Before that, he held numerous positions at Nokia during his 20 plus year career, including senior vice president and general manager of Nokia’s CDMA device business with full P&L responsibility for all product and technology creation.

Larry Paulson also oversaw Nokia’s ODM process with partners in China, Taiwan and Korea with responsibility for strategy, R&D, customer development and product marketing.

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