Sanjay Kumar Jha (born 1963) is an

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business executive. He is the former

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(CEO) of

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and former chairman and CEO of

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. Prior to that, he was the chief operating officer of

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Early life

Jha was born in 1963. He received a BS in

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from the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

and a PhD in

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from the

University of Strathclyde The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

. In 2011, Sanjay was awarded the honorary degree of D.Sc. by the University of Strathclyde.

Career

Jha began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as a senior engineer with the Qualcomm very-large-scale integration group working on the

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satellite phone, and later on the first 13k vocoder

application-specific integrated circuit An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC ) is an integrated circuit (IC) chip customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use, such as a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficie ...

, 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 he 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 and was appointed COO in December 2006. 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 May 22, 2012 when Dennis Woodside of Google took over the role of CEO at Motorola Mobility. On January 7, 2014 it was announced that Sanjay Jha would be the CEO of GlobalFoundries Inc. GlobalFoundries is a privately held company with its headquarters in

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, United States. GlobalFoundries is the second largest semiconductor foundry business in the world with fabs in

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, Singapore,

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and

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. Before joining Qualcomm, Jha held lead design engineering roles with

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in San Diego, and

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in London. Jha has served on the board of directors of the

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, and as vice-chairman of the Fabless Semiconductor Association (now th
Global Semiconductor Alliance
(GSA)). On March 9, 2018, he stepped down as CEO of

. Also in 2018, Jha was elected a member of the

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for leadership in the design and development of semiconductor technology enabling universal digital access.

Compensation

As a Co-CEO of Motorola in 2008, Sanjay Jha was paid a total 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. After the Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility is complete, Jha would receive $13.20 million in cash and $52.5 million for his stock options and shares. The cash component of the Golden Parachute package included $10.8 million in severance pay and a $2.4 million bonus. The cash portion is equal to three times Jha's base salary and bonus.Golden Parachute for Sanjay K. Jha
/ref> Jha stepped down after the deal was completed on 22 May 2012.

References

External links

Chicago Tribune article on Jha
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