Sanjay Jha

Sanjay Jha
Born	1963 Sultanganj, India
Residence	Illinois, United States
Education	Ph.D in electrical engineering B.S. in engineering
Alma mater	University of Strathclyde University of Liverpool
Occupation	Chairman/CEO, Motorola Mobility
Children	3

Sanjay K. Jha (born 1963) is chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobility and previously served as co-chief executive officer of Motorola. from 2008.^[1]

Early life

Jha was born in Sultanganj,Bihar,India.^[2] He received a Ph.D. in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Strathclyde and a B.S. in engineering from the University of Liverpool.

Career

On August 4, 2008 it was announced he would be the new CEO for the Motorola Mobile Devices business.^[3]

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.

In 2002, Jha led the formation of Qualcomm Technologies & Ventures, where he managed both the technology investment portfolio and the new technology group as senior vice president and general manager. Jha became executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies in 2003. He was named COO in December 2006.

Jha serves two prominent industry roles in addition to his leadership at Qualcomm. In June 2005, he was elected to the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association. He also serves as vice chairman of the Fabless Semiconductor Association.

Compensation

As a Co-CEO of Motorola in 2008, Sanjay Jha earned a total compensation of $8,462,544, which included a base salary of $905,769, a $836,931 cash bonus, stocks granted of $2,356,136, and options granted of $4,004,000.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Executive-Team/Sanjay-Jha-31da.aspx
2. ^ Bihar's Sanjay Jha emerges as America's top paid CEO
3. ^ "Sanjay Jha Named Co-Chief Executive Officer of Motorola and Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Devices Business". http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=9989_9918_23&pageLocaleId=2026. 
4. ^ "The Pay at the Top". The New York Times. http://projects.nytimes.com/executive_compensation?ref=business. Retrieved May 23, 2010. 
5. ^ 2008 CEO Compensation for Sanjay K. Jha, Equilar.com

External links

• Chicago Tribune article on Jha

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Date of birth	1963
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