Deutsche Telekom refreshed its high staff with appointments and departures throughout finance and expertise and ushered in its “subsequent technology” of administration.
The German telco and T-Cellular mum or dad introduced that Jan Hofmeyr, at present VP of Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) for telecom, has been appointed board member for product and expertise and can begin on November 1.
As DT’s new expertise chief, Hofmeyr will fill the void that opened in April when his predecessor Abdu Mudesir abruptly left the corporate to take the highest tech job at Verizon. Mudesir will begin on the US provider on the finish of March subsequent 12 months, when Joe Russo, president of world networks and expertise, retires.
Hofmeyr’s appointment will little question be a aid to DT’s long-serving CFO Christian Illek, who has been taking care of the group’s product and expertise realm since Mudesir left.
Nonetheless, Illek’s respite from double obligation will probably be short-lived as a result of one other main administration change introduced Tuesday is that the 62-year-old exec is retiring. He’s leaving the corporate “for age-related causes” on the finish of April 2027, after the corporate’s subsequent annual normal assembly, in line with Deutsche Telekom.
Illek’s substitute will probably be Dhananjay Mirchandani, at present DT’s senior VP for group controlling, who will take over as CFO on Could 1, 2027. Mirchandani joined DT in 2019 and has since held varied senior monetary positions.
Goodbye to ‘a dependable associate’
For DT CEO Timotheus Höttges, saying “farewell” to Illek is “rather more than a personnel matter” for the reason that executives have labored intently collectively for greater than 20 years.
“Christian was an essential architect of our improvement in decisive phases,” Höttges stated in a press release. “Above all, nonetheless, he was all the time one factor for me: a dependable associate. Somebody with whom you would talk about troublesome conditions brazenly, who took accountability and on whom you would rely always.”
Jonathan Abrahamson, chief product and digital officer, can be leaving the corporate “at his personal request,” however no additional rationalization was offered. He will probably be changed by Mladen Mitic as of October 1, who’s at present senior VP for B2C industrial progress at DT’s Europe enterprise unit.
Höttges, who’s DT’s longest-serving CEO with greater than 12 years on the helm, famous the time was proper for the administration modifications. “You may as well acknowledge a robust firm by the truth that it places its subsequent technology in cost in good time. That is precisely what we’re doing now,” he stated.
Hofmeyr bridges cloud, AI and telco worlds
Hofmeyr brings to the German telco greater than 30 years of telecom and cloud expertise that spans AWS, Comcast and Microsoft.
Throughout his 5 years at AWS, telcos have been his prospects. He has labored on product and expertise for edge providers, together with AWS Outposts, and later expanded his position to incorporate Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) networking providers. Hofmeyr’s most up-to-date place is main the cloud supplier’s telco business enterprise.
Earlier than becoming a member of AWS in September 2021, he labored at Comcast for 15 years in varied expertise and product supply roles and served as chief community officer for his final 4 years on the firm. On this place, he led the operator’s core community and communications platforms, reliability engineering, and cloud providers group.
Hofmeyr additionally led the staff that developed Comcast’s X1 cloud-based video platform.
Previous to Comcast, he was director of TV technique at Microsoft.
“Jan is aware of the telecommunications business. … On the identical time, he is aware of the world of worldwide expertise platforms, the velocity of cloud and digital enterprise fashions, and the large momentum that has created synthetic intelligence,” stated Höttges. “He is aware of each side of the taking part in discipline. That is precisely the connection we’d like now.”
