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Marvin Blecker serves as president of QUALCOMM Technology Licensing (QTL). He is responsible for overseeing all activities pertaining to QUALCOMM's intellectual property (IP) licensing business including negotiating and administering all IP license agreements. QTL licenses QUALCOMM's patents to companies worldwide for the design manufacture and sale of products using its patent technologies.
Blecker began his career at QUALCOMM in 1992 as vice president and assistant general manager of the CDMA business unit responsible for program management and marketing where he participated on the team that negotiated the first three South Korean license agreements with Samsung Hyundai and LG. In 1993 he was promoted to senior vice president of QUALCOMM Consumer Products. In that role he negotiated the Company's first handset sales agreement with U.S. West. He also negotiated handset sales agreements with Primeco (now part of Verizon Wireless) and Sprint key agreements that contributed to the successful rollout of CDMA-based wireless services in the United States.
In 1996 Blecker joined QTL where initially as senior VP and since 2001 as general manager he has been managing the day-to-day operations of the group. Since 1996 the Company's IP licensing program has grown from approximately 30 licensees to more than 130. During fiscal year 2006 QTL expanded its licensing program to include more than 60 licensees of WCDMA and TD-SCDMA technologies so that today most leading wireless manufacturers including Siemens Motorola Panasonic and NEC hold licenses from QUALCOMM covering WCDMA and/or TD-SCDMA.
Prior to joining QUALCOMM Blecker held key management positions in engineering at General Instrument Corp. Times Fiber Communications and RCA Laboratories where he led development and implementation of test satellite and cable TV communications systems and products.
Blecker is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics and a master's degree in electrical engineering-systems science from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn New York (now Polytechnic University). | 