René Obermann

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René Obermann (2007)

René Richard Obermann (born March 5, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) is a German manager . He was CEO of Deutsche Telekom from November 13, 2006 to December 31, 2013 . He has been Head of the Board of Directors of Airbus SE since April 16, 2020 .

Professional background

Obermann grew up in Krefeld . After graduating from the Arndt-Gymnasium in Krefeld in 1982, he did his military service in the German Armed Forces until 1984. He then completed vocational training as an industrial clerk at BMW in Munich . He then began studying economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in 1986 . At the same time he founded the trading company ABC Rufsysteme (later "The Phone House Telecom GmbH"), later renamed ABC Telekom, based in Münster . Obermann dropped out after the fourth semester because his company was developing better and better. In 1991 ABC Telekom merged with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. after obtaining the status of a mobile phone provider for the German D network . to Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH. Obermann was a managing partner there from 1991 to 1994 and then chairman of the management board until 1998.

Speech at the Telekom Annual General Meeting 2007

After selling his shares in Hutchison Mobilfunk, Obermann moved to T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH as Managing Director Sales in 1998. There he was CEO from April 2000 to March 2002. From June 2001 he was first member of the board of European Operations and Group Synergies, since November 2002 member of the board of the parent company Deutsche Telekom AG and since December 2002 chairman of the board of T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG . Obermann took over the last two positions from Kai-Uwe Ricke , who was appointed CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG. After his resignation on November 12, 2006, the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom appointed him as the new CEO with effect from November 13, 2006. For a long time, Obermann was regarded internally as the protégé of Ricke, with whom he had been on friendly terms since the mid-1990s from their time together at the then Association of Telecommunications Service Providers (VAT), from which the Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Services (VATM) emerged is. The financial investor Blackstone (11/2006 stake: 4.5 percent) and the federal government (11/2006 stake: 28 percent) pushed for a replacement from Ricke, who was accused of poor results and passivity in view of the loss of customers. While at the beginning of the telecommunications supervisory board Klaus Zumwinkel was reluctant to dismiss Ricke, he finally gave in to the demands of the American minority shareholder. According to various business magazines, Obermann and Ricke have pursued the same strategy, so there was no objective need for Obermann to be appointed. Examples of the work results from his time v. a. as chairman of the board are the exclusive sales partnership for the iPhone at the end of 2007 and the subsequent introduction in other European countries, the market leadership in Germany, the merger of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK to Everything Everywhere or the merger between Metro PCS and T-Mobile US with subsequent IPO. Since the beginning of 2012, Obermann has taken on the role of Chief Innovation Officer in the group. “He's a capitalist out of a picture book,” wrote Wirtschaftswoche in the late 1980s. Since then, Obermann's nickname has been “Bulldozer” (“Dobermann” is also common). From February 2007 to November 2013 Obermann was a member of the Bitkom Presidium. René Obermann was elected to the Senate of the Fraunhofer Society in 2011 .

Obermann gave up his position as CEO at Deutsche Telekom on December 31, 2013 and switched to the Dutch cable operator Ziggo . He wanted to be "closer to the engine room" and take on a more operational role there again. After it became known in January 2014 that Ziggo would be taken over by the media group Liberty Global , Obermann announced that he wanted to vacate his senior position.

After leaving Ziggo at the end of 2014, Obermann joined the American private equity company Warburg Pincus LLC as a partner and managing director in 2015 and has been managing director of Warburg Pincus Deutschland GmbH since 2018. In 2016, Obermann founded the Internet Economy Foundation (IE.F) with digital giants such as Oliver Samwer , Ralph Dommermuth and Robert Gentz . The goals of this foundation for the promotion of the digital economy in Germany include the expansion of the digital infrastructure, net neutrality, tax incentives for venture capital and modern competition law.

From 2011 to 2016 René Obermann was a member of the supervisory board of E.ON SE , from 2014 to 2016 of Spotify Technology SA , from 2015 to 2017 of CompuGroup Medical SE . and from 2013 to 2018 of ThyssenKrupp AG . Since 2017 he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Allianz Deutschland AG, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of 1 & 1 Internet SE and since April 2018 a member of the Board of Directors of Airbus SE , where he took over the chairmanship in April 2020.

Private life

Obermann separated from his previous wife in 2007. He was married to her for 15 years and has two daughters. He has been married to TV presenter Maybrit Illner since 2010 .

Since 2006 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Rheinviertel community foundation .

Awards

literature

  • Barbara Nolte, Jan Heidtmann: The one up there. Interior views from German executive floors. Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-518-12599-1 , p. 137 ff.

Web links

Commons : René Obermann  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Telenor Group Board Member: René Richard Obermann . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ RP Online: Prominent college dropouts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
  3. ↑ Telekom boss Ricke gives up - Obermann's successor
  4. ↑ Ricke didn't do anything wrong (tagesschau.de archive), tagesschau , November 13, 2006
  5. ^ Locust as a successor ( Memento of November 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Financial Times Deutschland , November 13, 2006, comments
  6. ↑ Apple (Germany) - Apple press releases - Apple and T-Mobile announce partnership for the exclusive distribution of the iPhone in Germany. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ heise online: Vodafone loses market leadership to Telekom. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  8. ↑ EU approves Orange and T-Mobile merger . In: The Independent . March 2, 2010 ( independent.co.uk [accessed May 17, 2017]).
  9. ↑ dpa / Thomas Michel: Telekom marries T-Mobile USA with Metro PCS (update) . ( teltarif.de [accessed on May 17, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Helmut Bünder, Thiemo Heeg and Carsten Knop: For me, innovation is a source of energy. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 5, 2012, accessed on May 24, 2012 (interview).
  11. ↑ Premature end: Telecom innovation director Kozel gives up. teltarif.de, November 18, 2011, accessed on May 24, 2012 .
  12. ↑ The Doberman Pinscher shows teeth Der Spiegel , May 3, 2007
  13. ↑ Timotheus Höttges joins the Bitkom Presidium Bitkom , press release, November 21, 2013
  14. ↑ Website of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fraunhofer.de
  15. ^ Dpa report on FOCUS Online
  16. ↑ René Obermann disembarks . n24.de. 30 December 2013
  17. ^ Dpa report on Heise Online
  18. ↑ Rene Obermann goes "closer to the engine room" again: Message - WELT. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  19. ↑ René Obermann will soon be out of his job . welt.de. January 27, 2014
  20. ↑ René Obermann hired to track down private equity deals for Warburg Pincus ( English ) Financial Times. August 25, 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  21. ↑ Warburg Pincus is again focusing more on Germany. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Internetworld: Internet giants found alliance for digital lobbyism; accessed on August 23, 2016
  23. ^ Internet Economy Foundation website; accessed on August 23, 2016
  24. ↑ Members of the Supervisory Board of CompuGroup Medical SE . Retrieved August 7, 2017
  25. ↑ Digital experts on the supervisory board. Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
  26. ↑ René Obermann. In: warburgpincus.com. Warburg Pincus LLC, accessed May 6, 2017 .
  27. ↑ Annual General Meeting. Retrieved June 8, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Handelsblatt: René Obermann is to become Airbus chief supervisor from 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  29. ↑ René Obermann: Ex-Telekom CEO is now chief supervisor at Airbus. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Maybrit Illner gives Telekom boss Obermann her yes-word. In: Handelsblatt Online. August 15, 2010.
  31. ↑ Telekom boss finds his grandmaster , Die Welt , November 15, 2013, accessed on November 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Obermann, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Obermann, René R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf