Ziad Asghar

Ziad Asghar

Ziad Asghar is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI). He leads Snapdragon roadmap planning and application processor technologies, covering all smartphone platform products. Ziad drives the definition of the products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable the best in class user experiences while making any tradeoffs between power, performance and cost. He also leads our technologies roadmap to ensure that we continue to lead on all application processor technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Camera, Gaming, Security among others.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless semiconductor industry where he has held a broad set of leadership positions from R&D to product management.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ziad was at Texas Instruments where he worked on systems design of UMTS and LTE. Ziad played a pivotal role in the design of the first UMTS chipset at Texas instruments.Ziad holds an MBA from UCSD and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and Southern Methodist University.

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