QUALCOMM Promotes Gary Garland To Vice President And General Manager Of QUALCOMM Digital Media

12-Oct-00

QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, announced the promotion of Gary W. Garland to Vice President and General Manager of QUALCOMM Digital Media. In this role, Mr. Garland will expand his current leadership as Vice President of Business Development to assist in managing and driving strategic initiatives for QUALCOMM's Digital Media business, including the company's government business and digital cinema initiatives. ""As vice president of business development for QUALCOMM Digital Cinema, Gary provided the leadership and strategic vision that has proven vital to our expansion into the emerging digital cinema market,"" said Kimberly Haile, President of QUALCOMM Digital Media. ""Gary's extensive background in high-tech business development, marketing and program management will enable QUALCOMM Digital Media to deliver cutting-edge, digital communications technology solutions to the motion picture industry as well as advanced secure wireless networked solutions to the U.S. government and commercial markets."" In his previous position as Vice President of Business Development for QUALCOMM Digital Cinema, Mr. Garland oversaw the development of a turn-key digital cinema delivery system to distribute movies via electronic images to theatres using high-end compression and sophisticated encryption technology. This system aims to reduce industry costs associated with reproduction and distribution, and attack motion picture piracy using leading-edge encryption and electronic watermarking techniques. Mr. Garland joined QUALCOMM from Logicon Incorporated in 1992 as Director of Government Marketing and was promoted to Vice President two years later. Garland is experienced in both government and commercial electronic program development for a variety of different applications including training simulation, data link test and certification, and secure wireless communications systems. Garland holds a Bachelor's of Science degree in Psychology from Stanford University. He is a former U.S. Navy carrier fighter pilot and also served as a commercial pilot with Continental Airlines for two years. For more information, visit QUALCOMM at www.qualcomm.com.

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