Change on the prime of Deutsche Telekom’s finance division: Dr. Christian Illek will go away the corporate after the 2027 Annual Normal Assembly on the finish of April for age-related causes. His successor can be Dhananjay Mirchandani, who will succeed CFO Christian Illek on Might 1, 2027. It was additionally determined on the Supervisory Board Assembly that Jan Hofmeyr can be appointed as the brand new Board Member for Product and Know-how. The South African-born American will succeed Dr. Abdurazak (Abdu) Mudesir, who left the corporate at his personal request in spring, on November 1, 2026. The brand new Chief Product & Digital Officer at Deutsche Telekom can be Mladen Mitic. He was beforehand chargeable for B2C Business Development in Deutsche Telekom’s Europe section and can report back to the brand new Board Member Product and Know-how Hofmeyr sooner or later. Mitic succeeds Jonathan Abrahamson, who’s leaving the corporate at his personal request.
Jan Hofmeyr (58) brings greater than three a long time of expertise and product management throughout cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, and shopper platforms. Most lately, Jan served as Vice President at Amazon Internet Companies (AWS), the place he led product and expertise for AWS Edge companies, together with AWS Outposts, earlier than taking over a broader position overseeing Amazon EC2 Networking companies and later main AWS’s Telco Business enterprise unit serving international telecommunications clients. Earlier than AWS, Jan spent over a decade at Comcast, culminating in his position as Govt Vice President and Chief Community Officer, the place he oversaw Comcast’s core community and communications platforms, nationwide reliability engineering, and Cloud Companies group. Earlier at Comcast, he led the staff that constructed and launched the X1 platform, scaling it to greater than 30 million units and launching its syndication enterprise. Jan has additionally served on a company advisory board and held govt management roles at Entriq, an organization that performed a vital position within the early infrastructure of paid web dwell video and pay-per-view companies. Previous to that, he spent seven years at Microsoft as Director of TV Technique, co-founding the eHome division and main improvement of Home windows Media Middle Version, he acquired Microsoft’s IP Management Award in 2006 and holds a number of patents. Jan started his profession in South Africa, the place he helped launch the nation’s first digital tv satellite tv for pc service and later helped launch MWEB, one in all South Africa’s first web service suppliers.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Digital Engineering from Stellenbosch College, South Africa.
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