Ziad Asghar

CEO

San Diego, California, United States27 yrs 7 mos experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led Generative AI strategy at Qualcomm.
Extensive experience in mobile technology and product management.
Senior leadership roles in major tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a senior leader in the mobile technology and AI sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementTechnology Strategy

Other Skills

Generative AI technologyapplication processor technologiestechnology roadmapIP definitionuser experiencesWirelessMobile DevicesSemiconductorsUMTSMobile CommunicationsCellular CommunicationsEmbedded SystemsMobile TechnologyStrategy3GPP

Experience

Qualcomm

7 roles

Senior Vice President & General Manager - XR, Wearables and Personal AI

Dec 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Senior Vice President & General Manager - XR & Spatial Computing

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Vice President Product Management - Snapdragon Application Processor Technologies & Roadmap

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Responsible for Qualcomm’s One Technology Roadmap for application processor technologies across all business units. I have formulated and driven Generative AI technology, strategy and roadmap in order for the Company to solidify its leadership in on-device AI to meet the growing demands of generative AI revolution. Also responsible for custom CPU, camera, graphics, audio, video and security technologies to build the best technology capabilities in the industry.
I lead the IP definition of all products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable best-in-class user experiences while making tradeoffs between features, power, performance, and cost. I work across all business units including handset, automotive, computing, XR, edge cloud and IoT.

Generative AI technologyapplication processor technologiestechnology roadmapIP definitionuser experiencesProduct Management+1

Vice President, Product Management, Snapdragon Roadmap & Application Processor Technologies

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Nov 2022 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Senior Director, QCT Strategy

Promoted

May 2014 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Director, QCT Strategy

Promoted

Oct 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Staff Manager, QCT Strategy

Apr 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

Virtual world society

Board Member

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Quintauris

Advisory Board Member

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Evonexus

Board Member

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Texas instruments, inc

OMAP Platform Manager

Oct 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos

In charge of Chipset and Technology Product Management for the Application processor and all other chipset components.

Texas instruments inc.

3 roles

Operator and Strategy Manager

Promoted

Jun 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

Managing Wireless Operator Relationship for the Americas. Responsible for running operator specific testing programs for TI chipsets and working with R&D and the business units to filter operator requirements in to TI wireless portfolio strategy.

Senior Systems Engineer/Project Lead

Promoted

Oct 2000 – Jan 2007 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Communication Systems expert in WCDMA (UMTS) and 3GPP. Lead the system design of two main IP blocks of the WCDMA chipset.

Systems Engineer

Mar 1998 – Sep 2000 · 2 yrs 6 mos

3g r&d, texas instruments inc.

Systems Engineering Team Manager

Apr 2005 – May 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo

UMTS R5 Modem Algorithms lead. Also lead the verification of the HSDPA functionality for a Release 5 compliant chip. Completed the architecture study for HSUPA.