Christopher Schläffer

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Christopher Schläffer (born August 23, 1969 ) is a European entrepreneur and founder of the Internet company NYOUM. He was a member of the executive board of VEON (NASDAQ: VEON) as well as “Chief Product and Innovation Officer” of Deutsche Telekom (XETRA: DTE) and is a member of the supervisory board of Amnesty International .

Life

Schläffer is a graduate of the Vienna University of Economics and Business and began his professional career at Accenture . In 1998 he moved to Deutsche Telekom AG and in 2000 was appointed head of the corporate strategy department.

In 2002 Christopher Schläffer was appointed "Corporate Development Officer" (CDO) and, in addition to group strategy, headed the central departments Technology / Networks (CTO), Processes / IT (CIO), Innovation, Research and Development and Venture Capital .

In 2006 Christopher Schläffer took over operational responsibility for the Group's product portfolio as Chief Product & Innovation Officer and member of the Executive Operating Board. In this role, he implemented strategic innovation fields such as IPTV , mobile Internet , and central strategic partnerships with companies such as Apple (exclusive marketing of the iPhone ). Together with Larry Page , Sergey Brin , Andy Rubin , Cole Brodman and Peter Chou, he presented the first mobile phone based on the Android operating system in New York in 2008 .

In 2007 Schläffer was elected to the “Young Global Leader” forum by the World Economic Forum in Davos .

In 2010, Christopher Schläffer left Deutsche Telekom and founded yetu. At the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) 2014 in Berlin, yetu introduced the world's first smart home platform on which applications can be used flexibly on any operating system and device. Deutsche Telekom and RWE have been won as cooperation partners . In 2015, yetu received the Federal President's “Excellent Location in the Land of Ideas” for the digital revolution, but became insolvent as a result of a failed financing round. Using open source technology, Christopher Schläffer founded NYOUM, an Internet platform for the connected home.

In 2016, Christopher Schläffer was appointed Chief Commercial and Digital Officer to the Executive Board of VEON, a global telecommunications company with more than 200 million customers. In this role, he was responsible for the return to sales growth, the transformation of the company into a technology group, the global launch of the VEON brand, and the development of a platform for context-based Internet services.

In 2018, Christopher Schläffer decided to leave the VEON board of directors in order to work as an entrepreneur again. As CEO, he realigned the NYOUM company he founded as a communications platform based in London. In early 2020, Schläffer was appointed to Amnesty International's board of directors.

engagement

Christopher Schläffer is involved in numerous public institutions and functions for a contextual Internet and an open information society . Schläffer is the patron of iamtheCODE.org, an organization with the aim of training 1 million girls and young women from developing countries in programming languages ​​by 2030. He was a founding member of the Organizing Committee of the Beethoven Piano Competition and is a member of the Innovation Circle at London's Serpentine Galleries. Christopher Schläffer was honored as one of the “100 most innovative Chief Digital Officers globally” and “Top50 Innovators To Watch”.

literature

  • Applied Technology and Innovation Management , Arnold H., Erner M., Möckel P., Schläffer C, Springer, Berlin (2010), ISBN 978-3540888260
  • Implementation of open innovation through industrial clusters and public-private partnerships , Bub U., Schläffer C., published in Accelerated innovation with regional and industry-related research clusters IRB Verlag (2008), ISBN 978-3816774594
  • Convergent Media & Networks , Keynote Speech at the 12th German-Japanese Symposium, 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Schläffer . linkedin.com. Retrieved June 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Christopher Schläffer . Crunchbase.com. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  3. ^ T-Mobile Unveils the T-Mobile G1 . t-mobile.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  4. ↑ Anne Preissner: Innovation chief Schläffer leaves Telekom . Manager-magazin.de. December 15, 2009. Retrieved June 28, 2010.
  5. ↑ Deutsche Telekom first partner of yetu . cleanthinking.de. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ Smart Home Run? . faz.de. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ Land of Ideas . Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  8. ↑ Excerpt from the Commercial Register Yetu AG . Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  9. ^ Companies House: NYOUM . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  10. ↑ VimpelCom names Christopher Schlaeffer as chief digital officer . bloomberg.com. January 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ DLDconference: Moving Beyond Apps - The Next Stage In Mobile And Messaging (Schläffer, Kirkpatrick) I DLD New York. May 19, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  12. ↑ VEON: VEON: the experience. In: VEON. February 28, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
  13. ↑ VEON group management and structure update . veon.com.
  14. ↑ International Board . amnesty.org.
  15. ↑ Executive Board of the Munich District . Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  16. ↑ Our Supporters . In: Serpentine Galleries . ( serpentinegalleries.org [accessed March 13, 2018]).
  17. ↑ The 100 digital leaders transforming their global brands . In: Hot Topics . January 14, 2016 ( hottopics.ht [accessed March 13, 2018]).
  18. ↑ 50 innovators to watch. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 7, 2017 ; accessed on March 13, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Our team . iamthecode.org.
  20. ↑ Convergent Media & Networks' (PDF; 320 kB) muenchner-kreis.de. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schläffer, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlaeffer, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1969