Thomas Kohler Email & Phone Number

Courbevoie, Ile-de-France, FR

Puteaux, FR

In charge of developing TOTEM beyond France and Spain and drive efficiency across its footprint. TOTEM is a market neutral and independent new European TowerCo leader, gathering operators, institutions, landlords and businesses, to create growth and sharing value.

Brussels, BE

• Generated outstanding annual savings from ~1.5bn annual spend on Digital Home Devices (Home Gateways, Set-Top Boxes), TV Platforms, SIM/eSIM and IoT Devices and Platform
• Realigned Mobile Devices procurement domain managing ~4bn spend to market conditions and organizationally integrated with Home Devices and Platforms Teams into a team of 80 FTE
• Revamped Alliance approach to external operators and onboarded first three Alliance partners: Bell (Canada), Proximus (Belgium) and NOS (Portugal); founded BuyIn Canada Inc. subsidiary and located BuyIn procurement.
• Introduced a customer-centric procurement approach and increased the customer satisfaction of DT/Orange executives and procurement community with BuyIn from 3.9 to 4.2 rating (of 5), assessed externally by IPSOS
• Introduced the MyBuyIn app/webapp bringing all relevant procurement information (i.e. spend, savings, procurement strategies, vendor news, organization and risk and relevant BuyIn contacts) to over 1000 executives and.
• Revamped BuyIn Summits into a fully digitally webinar series to update the BuyIn procurement community with the latest news and approaches as well as fostering best-practice exchanges

Brussels, BE

... driving the growth of the procurement alliance of Orange and Deutsche Telekom from the current spend volume of 25bn in more than 40 countries to a new dimension with additional industry partners and leveraging smart analytics... shaping the future of the Digital Home and Platforms Domain comprising Home Gateways, TV Platforms and STBs, SmartHome.

Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, FR

* Responsible for the product strategy, ressource allocation and arbitration within Europe region (UK, SP, PL, BE, RO, SK, MD, AM, DomRep)* End-to-End responsible for the delivery of all mobile, fixed and convergent Technocentre products for the Europe region (Voice + Messaging, Routers + Settop Boxes incl. Support Tools and Applications, Mobile.

Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, FR

• Global accountability for portal product and services within France Telecom Group. Responsible for positioning, specification and delivery of central portal products and services.
• Achieved 25% annual online service revenue growth through a combination of new service introduction and stimulating interaction between existing services
• Achieved > 30% reduction of service delivery cost (period 2008-2010) through portfolio and process streamlining as well as through outsourcing measures
• Successful management of international team comprising 60 FTE marketing and 250 FTE technical resources (RD, Technical Implementation) with internet, mobile and TV skills located in France, UK and Switzerland with.
• Chairman of unified product delivery governance for New Growth Business area (process deployment and improvement, gating, business reviews)
• Successful deployment of 100 new products and evolutions annually on the EU-8 country footprint (FR, UK, SP, PL, CH, BE, RO, SK) and AMEA

Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, FR

• Responsible for delivery of multimedia product delivery within Orange Group including Communication Services, Portals and Content Management, Download and Streaming, Business Services and Developer Portal and Services
• Establishment of technical delivery and operations strategy for mobile multimedia services within Orange Group with attached governance to handle multi-project / multi-country delivery
• Management and optimisation of mobile multimedia service portfolio comprising about 80 consumer and enterprise services including communication services (mail, pim, chat, instant messaging), entertainment services.
• Reorganisation of global mobile device validation activities and regrouping of relevant local teams into group teams; completion of full process reorganisation comprising internal and external validation labs
• Creation and management of international technical team of about 120 FTE

Renens, CH

• Overall responsibility for 1bn gross revenue of all business lines (B2C and B2B)
• Outperforming EBITDA, Customer Satisfaction and division Opex targets in 2001
• Outperforming EBITDA, Revenue, Customer Satisfaction and division Opex for H1/2002
• Introduction of competitive multi-channel sales strategies, intensive customer development programmes for value added services, innovative loyalty and retention programmes and continuous improvements in customer care.
• Recruiting and Management of strategy, product development, communications, sales and customer care teams comprising around 800 FTE

Berlin, DE

• Leadership to implement National Roaming agreements to allow new entrants to share mobile networks of incumbents
• Leadership in creation and management of environmental taskforce (15 FTE) to address negative perception antenna emissions in the field
• Leadership in various GSM and 3G bid management processes

Bern, CH