Fram Akiki Email & Phone Number

San Diego, CA, US

President of a consulting group providing management, technical and educational services, including expert consultation on topics such as AI, 5G, Analytics, digital transformation and smart, connected device strategies. We develop and publish blogs, presentations, videos, and whitepapers both organically and with/for our clients.

San Marcos, CA, US

Adjunct Instructor in Management Information Systems (MIS) - College of Business Administration

Potsdam, NY, US

Adjunct Instructor in the cohort-based Master of Science in Engineering Management Program

Plano, Texas, US

Executive responsible for defining industry strategy, driving specific industry product requirements and defining industry specific market solutions for Siemens Digital Industries Software customers in the semiconductor and electronics market

San Diego, CA, US

• Executive driving products and services of mobile and connected solutions into a wide range of enterprise, commercial and consumer systems
• Drove incremental, profitable revenue diversification for Qualcomm (outside of core/smart phone business) by leveraging core assets and selective new investments; Led strategic analysis to identify key areas of IoT.
• Drove a broad QC-based hardware/software ecosystem; Influencing software partners (ISV and Major O/S partners) to develop optimized solutions for mobile productivity, security and connectivity; Working with leading.
• Achieved business results by leading the mobile computing business unit, which includes driving product definition, execution and launches in the mobile computing market. Led the development & expansion of the Gobi.
• Transformation products and services-Launched Qualcomm’s Windows on Snapdragon product family with initial OEM partners (Asus, HP, and Lenovo) and Microsoft, featuring always-on, always connected Gigabit.
• Highlight Markets/Customers Enterprise: F100 Companies (w/HP, Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic Toughbook) Industrial: Honeywell/Intermec Smart Energy: GE/Itron Medical: Medtronics Asset Tracking: FedEx, UPS, OmniTracs.

San Diego, CA, US

• Created Qualcomm’s first supplier technology operations organization through consolidation of existing business and technical supplier interface groups along with the formation of an outsource foundry and engineering.
• Led organization to deliver supply assurance and cost competitiveness on over $ 1.5B in foundry supplier procurement spend, including strategic supply/investment agreements with TSMC, Samsung, UMC, and GlobalFoundries
• Initiated and executed corporate strategy to drive faster product migration to leading edge technologies at multiple semiconductor suppliers (Qualcomm COO Achievement Award)

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Formulated engagement strategy with leading fabless companies to drive bring up of new 300mm fab
• Initiated and led division wide team (Prod Mgmt, Development, Mfg) to win significant market share from competitor’s #1 customer (nVidia, A leading high performance graphics company)
• Led growth initiatives in delivering next generation consumer products (For Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation), including outsource partnership with Chartered Semiconductor
• Drove significant ($ 50M PTI) P & L improvements through portfolio optimizations and driving execution metrics

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led team to initiate and close 10 major (> $ 100M) OEM wins (including Philips, ST Micro, Cirrus Logic, Sanyo, Cyrix, AMD and Via/IDT)
• Drove execution teams (Development, Product Engineering and Product Management) in consistently delivering over $ 200M/year
• Developed successful supplier strategy to bring up new technologies at JV fab facilities in Fishkill, NY and Essonnes, France (Strategy led to eventual sale of Fishkill, NY facility to Philips)

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Developed and executed a comprehensive OEM product win plan that exceeded North American revenue objectives
• Technical focal point for first custom logic wins at Cisco
• Drove hiring and on boarding process of over 15 FAEs across the U.S. Developed a training/certification process for ASICs, Memory, Foundry and Microprocessors

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Led 4 design teams (2 local, 2 remote – Israel and Japan) to produce functional first pass hardware within cost, schedule, and expense targets (IBM General Manager Award of Excellence)
• Close collaboration with IBM PC and IBM Server Groups on initial beta bring up
• Design win at Compaq with industry leading PCI to PCI bridge chip as part of IBM Micro’s first OEM business development activities

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Integral member of analog CMOS design team on industry’s first Token Ring Networking product family
• Drove the design, manufacture, test, reliability, schedule and costs of IBM’s RAMDAC Graphics and PRML Read Channel Products (Coordinated amongst 3 continents, inc. short term residency in UK)

Class Of 2001

Mba, International Business

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