USD Board of Trustees Member Kim Koro ʼ86 (JD) Named 2024 Top 100 Women in Technology by Technology Magazine

SAN DIEGO (April 29, 2024) – University of San Diego (USD) Board of Trustees and Law School Board of Visitors member Kim Koro ʼ86 (JD), has been named to the 2024 Top 100 Women in Technology by Technology Magazine.

“This definitive list of 100 women champions the influential leaders and pioneers in technology who are elevating and driving momentum for the movement as well as those who are leading the charge when it comes to investment, innovation, capitalizing on strategic opportunities, and supporting other underrepresented groups. Paving the way for future generations, these women are creating space at the table for new faces, growth, and innovations.”

Having invested 35 years of her career to Qualcomm, Inc., Koro is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Government Technologies (QGOV), which is dedicated to working with federal, state, and local government agencies to apply advances in commercial wireless technology that enable significant gains and excellence in mission performance.

In her role, she is responsible for Qualcomm’s government business in support of National and Homeland Security. Koro’s leadership focuses on driving innovation in public and private partnerships to help bring the U.S. Government in sync with the pace of commercial technology and maximize its ability to leverage the wireless ecosystem. Within the wireless space, Koro and QGOV are working closely with the U.S. Government in the areas of advanced connectivity, cybersecurity, and newer technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and edge computing.  

Koro is a member of USD’s Board of Trustees and USD School of Law’s Board of Visitors. In 2020, she received the USD School of Law’s Distinguished Alumni Award. Koro and her husband, Mark, established the Kim and Markus P. Koro Legacy Endowed Scholarship, awarded to a law student with a demonstrated financial need, recognized merit, and outstanding moral character and the Shoemaker, Mulvey and Koro Endowed Scholarship to support students with broadly defined learning differences. 

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About the University of San Diego School of Law

Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest law and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 30th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 41st nationally in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.