Qualcomm Ventures, the corporate venturing vehicle for mobile semiconductor maker Qualcomm, has promoted Patrick Eggen managing director for North America.
Eggen joined Qualcomm in 2005 and has latterly been Qualcomm Ventures’ lead investor in the Bay Area, overseeing its Early Stage Fund, which has made more than 60 investments across the world. He is also the main investment lead for the unit’s QPrize and Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator.
Before being hired by Qualcomm Ventures, Eggen worked as an analyst and then an associate at financial services firm Citigroup’s European Telecommunications Group. He has also worked at Salomon Smith Barney’s investment banking unit as part of its global telecommunications team.
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