Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Paul E. Jacobs, Ph.D., founded XCOM in 2018 to #keepinventing and to invest with the world’s most creative engineers and businesspeople.
Vice Chairman, President & COO
Derek K. Aberle, co-founder and vice chairman, oversees XCOM’s strategy, business development, investment activity and operations.
Chief Technology Officer
Matt Grob, chief technology officer of XCOM, is responsible for XCOM Labs, which develops innovative wireless technologies.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Paul E. Jacobs, Ph.D., founded XCOM in 2018 to #keepinventing and to invest with the world’s most creative engineers and businesspeople.
As former chief executive officer and executive chairman of Qualcomm, Dr. Jacobs spearheaded its efforts to develop and commercialize fundamental mobile technology breakthroughs that fueled the wireless internet and smartphone revolutions. During his tenure as CEO, Qualcomm’s revenues quadrupled and its market capitalization doubled. Dr. Jacobs is a prolific inventor with over 80 U.S. patents granted or pending in the field of wireless technology and devices.
He served as a director of Qualcomm from June 2005 to March 2018, including as chairman of the board of directors from March 2009 to March 2018, and as executive chairman from March 2014 to March 2018. He served as chief executive officer from July 2005 to March 2014, and as group president of Qualcomm Wireless & Internet from July 2001 to July 2005. In addition, he served as an executive vice president of Qualcomm from February 2000 to June 2005.
Dr. Jacobs is a director of Dropbox, Inc., FIRST, and Heal, a private technology enabled medical care company. He is an owner and vice chairman of the Sacramento Kings, who compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science, M.S. in electrical engineering, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science. He founded Berkeley’s Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and was the university’s 2017 Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Vice Chairman, President & COO
Derek K. Aberle, co-founder, president and chief operating officer of XCOM, oversees XCOM’s strategy, business development, investment activity and operations. He previously spent 17 years at Qualcomm, including as president from March 2014 to January 2018. He served as a member of Qualcomm’s executive committee beginning in 2008, executive vice president and group president from November 2011 to March 2014 and executive vice president and president of Qualcomm Technology Licensing from September 2008 to November 2011. He was responsible for driving Qualcomm’s global strategy and overseeing its business units, international markets and marketing functions. Mr. Aberle also oversaw many of Qualcomm’s global growth initiatives, including its datacenter unit and its expansion in China. He also led Qualcomm’s technology and IP licensing business through a period of strong growth, established its 4G licensing program, and structured and negotiated Qualcomm’s major license and other strategic agreements.
Mr. Aberle holds a B.A. in business economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from University of San Diego School of Law. He is a board member for the Alliance for SoCal Innovation and EvoNexus (a Southern California incubator).
Chief Technology Officer
Matt Grob, chief technology officer of XCOM, is responsible for XCOM Labs, which develops innovative wireless technologies. Matt previously spent over 26 years at Qualcomm in technology and engineering leadership roles. He served as Qualcomm’s EVP and CTO from 2011 to 2017, overseeing R&D and managing a global team of 2,200 employees across various divisions worldwide, and later as EVP/Technology.
Mr. Grob holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Bradley University and a M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is a trustee of the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, and a volunteer for over a decade at FIRST, the robotics and education organization inspiring future leaders in science and technology.
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XCOM Labs Vice President of Wireless Tamer Kadous is another engineering leader who was previously at Qualcomm and has more than 20 years of experience in wireless communications spanning the areas of PHY, MAC and upper layers. He has been a design architect, systems lead and project lead for a variety of projects including UMB (ultra-mobile broadband), WLAN, EV-DO, LTE, LTE-U, MulteFire and 5G NR. Tamer led the first effort for LTE-unlicensed design, implementation, and commercialization. He pioneered wireless machine learning algorithms and has almost 200 US granted patents. He was Chairman of the Radio Working Group and board member in the MulteFire Alliance driving the standardization of PHY/MAC/MPS specifications. He holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in EE from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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XCOM Labs Vice President of Engineering Daaman Hejmadi brings extensive executive leadership and engineering experience to the team. His work has spanned semiconductor startups to device manufacturing giants over the past three decades. He most recently co-founded a startup company building the brain of an autonomous automobile focused on the rapidly growing market in China. Prior to this, Daaman’s most recent tour with Intel began in 2016 culminating in the role of Corporate Vice President & Infrastructure and Platform Solutions Group General Manager propelling the recovery of process technology leadership by creating a development platform for internal and external customers. This was preceded by nine years with Qualcomm in the capacity of Vice President of Engineering revolutionizing their development landscape, transforming their Bangalore design center from a small augmentation team to an engineering powerhouse comprised of ~4K staff that continues to deliver long-term value.
Daaman holds a Master of Business Administration in Organizational Behavior and Finance from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science and Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Science preceded by a Bachelor of Science in Physics/Electronics from the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff.
XCOM Labs Vice President of Multimedia and Applications Serafin Diaz is a brilliant engineer and multimedia whiz who previously acted as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm leading XR Research. His work in XR started in 2007 when he jump-started the first Augmented Reality project. This project produced core real time Computer Vision technology which enabled not only XR but also became foundational to projects in robotics and autonomous driving. The inside-out 6DoF head tracking technology showcased in Qualcomm’s VR HMD reference design is an example of such technology. Serafin’s work influenced new generations of HW accelerators in Qualcomm’s SoCs.
He also led a variety of projects in areas concerning 2G CDMA data systems, test automation platforms for wireless devices, physical layer system integration and test for 1xEVDO as well as projects which laid down core technology for wireless VoIP and Video Telephony systems.
Serafin has been a digital hardware designer, a LAN systems engineer, a software architect, and a system validation engineer for TDMA cellular systems at Bell Northern Research (Nortel). He holds more than 60 active and pending US patents. Additionally, he has been recognized as one of the 20 most influential Latinos in tech in 2017 and 2018.
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Previously an SVP of Technology and Fellow at Qualcomm, XCOM Labs Chief Scientist Peter Black has worked on wireless system designs spanning 2G/3G/4G/5G. He contributed to all aspects of the life cycle of new innovations, starting with the concept, system design, prototype, evangelization, standardization, and finally the commercial ASIC realizations. He was a modem system architect in 1995 for the first commercial CDMA modem chip – the foundational Qualcomm chip-set product. In 1998, Peter co-led an R&D project which led to the high-speed Mobile Internet starting with 1xEV-DO. Concepts such as shared downlink, adaptive HARQ, link adaption, carrier-state feedback, fairness scheduling, carrier aggregation and cellular broadcast were designed, prototyped, standardized, and commercialized over the next 10 years under his direct technical leadership. The 3GPP HSDPA standard was motivated by and based on this foundational EVDO work. He holds 200+ US patents and holds a B.E. in EE from University of Queensland and was awarded a University Medal. He was also awarded a Fulbright Traveling Scholarship and attended Stanford University graduating with an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering.
–Distinguished Member of Technical Staff