Chem Assayag is head of Business Development for Qualcomm MediaFLO technologies, covering the Europe, Middle East and African regions.
Chem is a senior executive with more than 15 years experience in the digital TV and media industries. He joined OpenTV, a leading provider of convergent media solutions, as one of its first employees in 1995 as sales manager. He then became sales and marketing director for the EMEA region before running overall EMEA operations – the largest region for the company - as General Manager until 2003.
Most recently Chem was Vice President for Sales and Business Development at NDS (France), a News Corporation company. Chem had global responsibility for managing accounts dealing with middleware technologies in the digital TV arena, as well as expanding the company’s reach in areas such as IPTV or mobile.
Chem graduated from the Lyon Graduate School of Business (EM Lyon) and holds a post graduate degree in Media Management from ESCP-EAP (Mastère Spécialisé).
Qualcomm Incorporated is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company’s CDMA digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in the S&P 500 Index and is a FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.
