Telekom Deutschland People Moves, October 2019

By Deutsche Telekomwatch2019-10-03T15:52:00+01:00

People movement highlights
Company	Executive	Activity	Details
Sources: Deutsche Telekom; Financial Times; various.
Germany	Jean Pascal Roux	Appointment	Former Tele Columbus executive Jean Pascal Roux was appointed to a newly-created role of SVP of Housing Industry & Broadband Deployment, Business-to-Business. Roux was previously Tele Columbus’ Chief Sales Officer for Housing Industry & infrastructure. The move suggests Telekom Deutschland (TDE) is seeking to strengthen its housing association and real estate developer presence following the merger of rivals Vodafone Germany and Unitymedia.
Germany	Michael Schuld	New role	TDE appointed Michael Schuld, previously SVP of Communication & Sales Marketing, as Head of TV, effective 1 November 2019. Schuld will be responsible for the MagentaTV IPTV platform and other aspects of TDE’s TV business. Schuld succeeds Wolfgang Elsäßer, who recently joined content trading enterprise Cinetrade, a subsidiary of Swiss telco Swisscom, as CEO.

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