Len Lauer Leaves Wireless Industry; Lands CEO Job At Print Technology Company

Qualcomm's former COO Len Lauer

With the mobile industry potentially entering one of its biggest growth periods in history, this one took us as a bit of a surprise: Len Lauer, who announced his resignation as Qualcomm’s COO late last year, has landed at Memjet, a color-printing technology company. Lauer will serve as CEO, and will also be on the company’s board. Release.

Given Lauer’s pedigree, which included a stint at Sprint (NYSE: S) and then Sprint Nextel following the merger, it seemed he could have been on a trajectory to work at Verizon next, where there will likely be changes as executives retire in the next few years. The only two things Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and Memjet seem to have in common is that they are both based in San Diego. Lauer said in a release:

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