Biography:

Rahul Patel serves as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity & Networking Business Unit for Qualcomm Technologies Inc., (QCT), where he leads the Wireless Infrastructure and Networking (WIN), Mobile, Computing and Connectivity (MCC), Wearables and Voice & Music (V&M) businesses.

Prior to this role, Rahul was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Wireless Connectivity in the Broadband and Connectivity Group at Broadcom where he managed the product roadmap, R&D engineering, market, business development and applications engineering organizations to expand Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS leadership across all market segments. During his 13 year career with Broadcom, Rahul has had a strong track record of developing successful product lines, driving P&L growth and developing strong teams.  

Prior to Broadcom, Rahul worked at HIFN, Inc., Samsung Semiconductor, Tritech Microelectronics and EPSON/S-MOS Systems.

Rahul is a veteran of the semiconductor and telecommunications industry with more than 25 years of experience in engineering, product and business development for networking and wireless connectivity solutions.  

Rahul holds an MBA from Santa Clara University in California, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from NIT in Warangal, India.