SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Cristiano Amon has been appointed the CEO of Qualcomm, the company announced Wednesday, making him the fourth CEO in the San Diego-based telecommunication company’s 36-year history. Amon has worked for Qualcomm for 26 years and “has played a critical role in not only setting strategy and managing day-to-day operations, but in driving an industry-leading roadmap, expanding and diversifying our business beyond mobile into automotive, compute, infrastructure/edge, IoT, RF Front End, connectivity, networking, and of course, overseeing the successful acceleration and rollout of 5G,” the company said. “We have been at the forefront of innovation for decades and I look forward to maintaining this position going forward,” Amon said in a statement. “In addition to driving the expansion of 5G into mainstream devices and beyond mobile, Qualcomm is set to play a key role in the digital transformation of numerous industries as our technologies become essential to connecting everything to the cloud.”