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Deutsche Telekom COO to join Siemens unit
08 December 2009
The enterprise communications division of Siemens has hired Deutsche Telekom’s COO, Hamid Akhavan, to become its CEO from February 2010
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Comment: Hamid Akhavan has spent more than eight years at the Deutsche Telekom group, as a rare American in the German incumbent. SEN is a rather surprising move, created out of the remaining comms interests of the Siemens group when Nokia and Siemens combined their telecoms network businesses into NSN. It’s a vendor, and the move marks a return to that side of the business for Akhavan.
The chief operating officer of Deutsche Telekom, Hamid Akhavan, is leaving the company. Akhavan is joining Siemens Enterprise Communications as chief executive officer. He is replacing the current CEO of SEN, Mark Stone.
Akhavan joined Deutsche Telekom as head of technology of its wireless unit, T-Mobile, in 2001. Akhavan was promoted to chief operating officer at the German telecommunications company in July, following a reorganization of the group.
He is also CEO of T-Mobile International, leading the T-Mobile companies in Europe — but not the US — and the operations outside Germany where Deutsche Telekom runs fixed and mobile businesses.
Akhavan will begin his new role in February. SEN is a joint venture between Siemens and a US investor, The Gores Group. The US investor holds a 51% stake in SEN and is responsible for the operational management of the company. SEN’s clients include car-maker BMW and the Finnish Labour Ministry.
Before joining DT, Akhavan was CTO and CIO at Teligent. He has degrees from Caltech and MIT in the US. GTB