Apple Inc. (AAPL), QUALCOMM, Inc. (QCOM) & America’s Fifth Best CEO Will Give You an Investing Edge

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Leadership to match the opportunity
At the center of this opportunity from the transition to mobile Internet usage is QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs. Jacobs has served as CEO of the company since March of 2009, but his tenure at the company is much longer.

In 1990, Jacobs joined the staff at QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) as an engineer working on cell phone digital signal processors. His background and experience means that Jacobs is not only a manager, but a leader who is gifted with intimate knowledge of how QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM)’s technology works, and how it is differentiated from the competition.

Clearly, that kind of knowledge alone makes Jacobs valuable. But the fact that his employees give him a 95% approval rating goes beyond that. A quick look through employee reviews shows they almost universally praise the culture that’s been cultivated at the company, with a sense of teamwork, camaraderie, and innovation mentioned almost uniformly.

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Fool contributor Brian Stoffel owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool recommends Apple and Facebook. The Motley Fool owns shares of Apple, Facebook, and Qualcomm.

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