2008/2009.
Dr. Karl-Gerhard Eick.
Board member responsible for Finance and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management (until Feb. 28, 2009).
Born in 1954. Karl-Gerhard Eick studied business administration in Augsburg, where he earned his doctorate in 1982. Until 1988 he was employed in various positions at BMW AG in Munich – most recently as Head of Controlling in the Chairman’s department. From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Eick worked for WMF AG in Geislingen as Head of Controlling. Between 1991 and 1993, he headed the central unit for Controlling, Planning and IT at Carl Zeiss Gruppe, Oberkochen. From 1993 through 1998, Dr. Eick was in charge of the Finance division on the Board of Management of Gehe AG, Stuttgart, a company of the Haniel group. In 1999 he moved to the group’s strategic management holding – Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH, Duisburg – where he headed the board department for Controlling, Business Administration and IT. Karl-Gerhard Eick has been responsible for the Finance department on Deutsche Telekom AG’s Board of Management since January 2000 and has been Deputy Chairman of the Board since 2004. In addition, he assumed temporary responsibility for Deutsche Telekom AG’s Human Resources department between January 1 and May 1, 2007. From June 1 through November 30, 2007 Dr. Eick was also interim Member of the Board of Management responsible for Business Customers.
René Obermann.
Chairman of the Board of Management.
Born in 1963. After training to become an industrial business administrator at BMW AG in Munich, in 1986 René Obermann set up the ABC Telekom trading company in Münster. In 1991 he became Managing Partner of Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, the successor company of ABC Telekom, and was Chairman of the company’s Managing Board from 1993 to 1998. Between April 1998 and March 2000, René Obermann was Managing Director, Sales at T-Mobile Deutschland, and then served as Chairman of the Managing Board until March 2002. From June 2001 to December 2002, he was Member of the Board of Management of T-Mobile International AG, responsible for European Operations and Group Synergies. In November 2002, René Obermann moved to the Board of Manage- ment of Deutsche Telekom AG, where he headed the department responsible for T-Mobile and, in December 2002, was also appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of T-Mobile International AG. On November 13, 2006 René Obermann took over as Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG.
Dr. Manfred Balz.
Board member responsible for Data Privacy, Legal Affairs and Compliance. Born in 1944. After studying law at the universities of Tübingen, Munich, St. Petersburg, and Harvard University in Boston, Dr. Balz worked at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg from 1969 to 1970. Following research periods in Leningrad and Moscow and at Harvard Law School, he began his career at the German Federal Ministry of Justice in 1974. He also worked as General Counsel of Treuhandanstalt Berlin from 1990 to 1993 and as a partner at the international law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering from 1993 to 1997. Manfred Balz was appointed Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management responsible for Data Privacy, Legal Affairs and Compliance on October 22, 2008. The new Board department was established on the recommendation of the Board of Management in order to firmly embed in particular the topics of data privacy and data security at the top management level. Prior to his appointment to the Board of Management, Manfred Balz, who holds a doctorate in law, had been General Counsel at Deutsche Telekom since 1997.
Thomas Sattelberger.
Board member responsible for Human Resources.
Born in 1949. After completing his business administration studies at the Baden-Württem- berg University of Cooperative Education, Thomas Sattelberger started his professional career in the Central Directorate for Education and Development at the Daimler-Benz group in Stuttgart. From 1982 through 1988, he was responsible for training and execu- tive development at the Daimler group company MTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union GmbH in Munich/Friedrichshafen. In 1989, Thomas Sattelberger became Head of Management Development, Training & Customer Care at Mercedes-Benz AG, International Sales Organization in Stuttgart, which he left in 1990 to become Head of Management Development & Education at Daimler Benz Aerospace AG in Munich. From 1994 to 2003 Thomas Sattelberger worked for Deutsche Lufthansa AG, where he began as Head of Group Executives and HR Development, and in 1999 went on to become Executive Vice President, Product & Service as a member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Passage Airline, responsible for service operation and product development. Between 2003 and 2007 he served as Chief Human Resources Director of Continental AG in Hanover. Since May 3, 2007 Thomas Sattelberger has been Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management responsible for Human Resources and Arbeits- direktor (Labor Director).
Timotheus Höttges.
Board member responsible for T-Home and Sales & Service.
Born in 1962. After studying business administration in Cologne, Timotheus Höttges spent three years at the Mummert + Partner business consulting firm in Hamburg. In late 1992 he moved to the VIAG group in Munich, where he held various commercial positions, most recently as a member of the extended management board responsible for Controlling, Mergers & Acquisitions, and was project manager in the merger of VIAG AG with VEBA AG to create E.ON AG. In September 2000 Timotheus Höttges moved to Deutsche Telekom, initially as Managing Director of Finance and Controlling at T-Mobile Deutschland and, from April 2002 to December 2004, as Chairman of the Managing Board of T-Mobile Deutschland. He then became Chief Sales and Service Officer at T-Mobile International. As such, he was responsible for Sales and Service in Europe. Since December 5, 2006, Timotheus Höttges has been Member of the Deutsche Telekom AG Board of Management, responsible for T-Home and for all domestic sales and service activities of T-Mobile and T-Home.
Hamid Akhavan.
Board member responsible for T-Mobile, Product Development, and Technology and IT Strategy.
Born in 1961. After graduating in electrical engineering and computer science and receiving a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Hamid Akhavan held several executive positions at Teligent Inc., an international company pro- viding fixed wireless access over broadband lines, and at a number of other technology companies. In September 2001 Hamid Akhavan moved to T-Mobile International AG and in December 2002, was appointed to the T-Mobile Board of Management as Chief Tech- nology and Information Officer (CTO). In addition, in September 2006 he assumed the position of Deutsche Telekom Group CTO. Hamid Akhavan has been responsible for mobile communications on the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom since December 5, 2006, and is also Chairman of the Board of Management of T-Mobile Inter- national AG & Co. KG. He is in charge of the mobile communications subsidiaries in Western and Eastern Europe and of Deutsche Telekom AG’s national companies in Europe that are active in both the fixed-network and the mobile-communications markets. Hamid Akhavan’s Group-wide responsibilities also include innovation and product- development in the consumer segment as well as the areas of technology, IT and procurement.
Reinhard Clemens.
Board member responsible for T-Systems.
Born in 1960. Reinhard Clemens graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the university in Aachen, where he also worked as a research assistant for the machine tool engineering chair. Reinhard Clemens launched his career as General Manager of the Association for Industry Automation in 1990. From 1994 Reinhard Clemens held various positions in sales, service and outsourcing at the IBM group until he left the company in 2001 to join Systematics AG. There he served as member of the board of management responsible for sales. In 2001 Reinhard Clemens began working for EDS in Germany. As chairman of the executive board, he was responsible for sales, business operations and strategy in Central Europe. Since December 1, 2007 Reinhard Clemens has been Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG, responsible for Business Customers, and Chairman of the T-Systems Board of Management.
From left to right:
Reinhard Clemens, Timotheus Höttges, Hamid Akhavan, Dr. Manfred Balz, Dr. Karl-Gerhard Eick, Thomas Sattelberger and René Obermann.
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