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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Sunnyvale, California

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Led innovation focused emerging business unit to drive disruptive innovation outside the core business of a telecommunications network supplier supporting 40%+ world’s mobile data traffic with 100K employees and $30B annual revenue.Business successes: In 3.5 years executed projects in 3 stages:1) 100+ ideas validated2) 15 incubated3) 3 new businesses launched and scaled. Generated $100Mill.+ revenue. 2 of them accelerated through M&A, and spin-off. - “EdgeGravity” formerly UDN ‒ A carrier federated, globally scaled CDN and edge compute platform, bringing content delivery and compute workloads closer to customers - “Emodo” ‒ The Data-First Ad Marketplace; leveraging carrier data for targeted advertising - “Industry Connect, scaled as Advanced Industries solution” ‒ a private 5G network in a box tailored for manufacturing & warehouses

San Francisco Bay Area

Co-founded and launched new unit for disruptive innovation — inspired and enabled inventors to transform bold ideas into revenue. Grew team from 3 to up to 100+ people; managed a dedicated innovation fund, and embedded strategic venture team, worked closely with university, venture capital and start-up ecosystem.Media recognized highlight at MWC 2017 Barcelona: The Black Box - An immersive VR experience showcase without VR glasses within a mini cinema, depicting family of future seamlessly interconnected use cases with mobile devices.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led startup unit of up to 70 people within Chief Innovation Office that created a federation of carriers on globally scaled distributed cloud solution from ideation to commercialization. Developed prototypes, initiated network build-out, and first commercial launches with 5 partners in APAC region.Edge Gravity later spun-off, grew to 300+ people and operates a globally spanned edge cloud platform, enabled by a global ecosystem of service providers and edge technology partners - bringing the internet to the customer at the edge.

Stockholm, Sweden

Established a new product introduction team to develop new customer and partner engagement programs. Directed business development, POCs, solution integrations, and technical sales support for all internal media products. Developed and implemented new customer and partner engagement programs for introduction and launch of new TV & Media solutions into global markets, in often complex and large-scale environments. Led trials and co-innovation initiatives, solution integration, sales enablement, technical sales support, training and competence readiness for all internal media products and solutions.

Stockholm, Sweden

Formed high focused team to foster creation and exploration of new business ideas and go-to-market strategies for telecommunication operators in a business unit with $2.5B revenues. Developed highly entrepreneurial work environment utilizing design thinking methodologies to accelerate enterprise and consumer solutions hitting the market - improved from years to weeks.

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

Overall solution responsible during contract phase in a country-wide transition project replacing Deutsche Telekom's traditional circuit-switched-style network to a state-of-the-art IP based (IMS) next-generation network.Leading a team of 30+ Solution Architects with the responsibility to develop the solution, plan the implementation and negotiate requirements for a €100M+ multi-year transition project for the entire network of Deutsche Telekom in Germany.

Montreal, Canada

Led customer centric strategic programs and innovation initiatives to create B2B / B2C use cases and services to drive market adoption of IMS, Multimedia, and other Communication Services including market initiation of RCS - Rich Communication Services.

Cologne Area, Germany

Management consultancy to Vodafone Germany launched the world's first MMS solution.

Cologne Area, Germany

Technology Manager at E-Plus Group / KPN Mobile International:Established and led supplier and business partner integration program ensuring a content reach launch of European's first social media platform for mobile consumers, based on Japan's leading-edge "i-mode" platform, in close collaboration with NTT DoCoMo and NEC

Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

Managed definition phase of a strategic outsourcing project within IBM Global Services for Metallgesellschaft - one of Germany's largest industrial conglomerates

Berlin, Germany

Technical Project Manager – Launched Europe’s first VoIP Call-Center at scale (250+ agents) in collaboration with Siemens and Accenture for Gothaer Versicherungen, a German insurance company