Sanjay Jha
| Sanjay Jha | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) |
| Residence | Delhi, India |
| Education | Not educated |
| Alma mater |
University of Strathclyde University of Liverpool |
| Children | 3 |
Sanjay Kumar Jha (born 1963) is the CEO of GlobalFoundries and former chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobility. Prior to that he was the chief operating officer of Qualcomm.
Jha was born in 1963 in Bhagalpur, Bihar in east India. He received a BS in engineering from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in Electronics engineering from the University of Strathclyde .
On 7 January 2014 it was announced that Sanjay Jha would be the CEO of GlobalFoundries Inc. GlobalFoundries is a privately held company with its headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, USA. GlobalFoundries is the second largest semiconductor foundry business in the world with fabs in Malta (NY, USA), Dresden (Saxony, Germany), Singapore, East Fishkill (NY, USA) and Burlington (VT, USA).
On 4 August 2008 it was announced he would be the new CEO for the Motorola Mobile Devices business. He served in this role until 22 May 2012 when Dennis Woodside of Google took over the role of CEO at Motorola Mobility.
Before joining Motorola, Sanjay Jha was COO of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. As COO, Jha was overlooking Corporate Research and Development and Qualcomm Flarion Technologies (QFT) in addition to his role as president of QCT, the chipset and software division of Qualcomm Incorporated.
Before joining Qualcomm, Jha held lead design engineering roles with Brooktree Corporation in San Diego, and Hirst Research Centre in London.
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.
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