Ron summer

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Ron Summers (1997)

Ron Sommer (* 29. July 1949 in Haifa , Israel , as Aaron Lebowitsch ) is a manager and former CEO of Deutsche Telekom . Since May 2003 he has been chairman of the international advisory council (Chairman of the International Advisory Council) of the Russian group Sistema , where he was elected a board member in June 2005.

Life

Summer was in Haifa, 1949 Israel , the son of Jewish born parents. His mother fled Bessarabia (now Moldova ) in 1943 and his father emigrated from Würzburg to Palestine in 1935 . After his parents separated, he moved to Vienna with his mother and her new partner , where he adopted the name of his stepfather, studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and in 1971 with the title Limit Theorems on the Entropy of Number Theoretic Transformations at the age of 21 to Ph. D. received a doctorate; The doctoral supervisor was Fritz Schweiger .

Career

Nixdorf & Sony

In 1973, at the age of 24, Sommer joined Q1 Corp. , a small computer company, moved to New York in 1974, which was taken over by the German Nixdorf Computer AG . After a short stopover in Germany, he became head of the Nixdorf branch in Paris for two years in 1977 , and later headed the overseas division. In 1980 he moved to the Japanese Sony group, where he took over the executive chair in the USA ten years later and the European chairmanship in 1993.

Deutsche Telekom

On May 16, 1995, Sommer became CEO of Deutsche Telekom . Initially successful, he resigned from his post on July 16, 2002 on the grounds that the relationship of trust with the Supervisory Board had been disturbed. The federal government, as the majority shareholder, had urged Sommer to resign after massive price losses as a result of the stock market crisis from 2001 and the now high corporate debt. After initial speculation, Sommer should receive a severance payment of 65 million euros, which, however, was denied by Deutsche Telekom. The compensation for summer was only 11.6 million euros. In May 2008 it became known that during Sommer's tenure as CEO of Telekom, the systematic spying on employees and journalists in order to uncover possible sources of information within the company began.

Supervisory board mandates and consulting contracts

From May 2004 to December 31, 2006 he was on the supervisory board of the former German chemical company Celanese . Since July 2004 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the US company Motorola . Since May 2003 he has been chairman of the international advisory council (Chairman of the International Advisory Council) of the Russian group Sistema , in June 2005 he was elected as an independent board member and since May 2009 he has been responsible for the telecommunications business as board member. As a consultant, Sommer is closely associated with the investment company The Blackstone Group LP , which holds shares in Celanese and Deutsche Telekom. Since September 2006, Sommer has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Indian company Tata Consultancy Services . Until 2018, Sommer was part of the Munich Re Supervisory Board .

honors and awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ron Sommer takes the lead of System Telecommunications and Media business. In: www.sistema.com. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
  2. Nils Klawitter: Phantom in transit . In: DER SPIEGEL . No. 29 , 2002 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 22, 2015]).
  3. Ron Sommer in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
  4. Manager-Magazin : Review 2002: Departure of the year , December 24, 2002
  5. ^ Spiegel Online : Ex-security chief at Telekom admits spying actions in the summer era , May 30, 2008
  6. 2004 Annual General Meeting . Celanese AG press release. June 16, 2004. Archived from the original on December 25, 2004. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.celanese.com
  7. Personnel changes in the Management and Supervisory Boards of Celanese AG . Celanese AG press release. December 13, 2006. Accessed on May 25, 2012.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: 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.celanese.com  
  8. Munich Re: Munich Re pays out € 1.3 billion to shareholders. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .