Telefónica’s new Germany chief reboots ExCo
Richard Agnew2026-03-31T12:01:00
New CEO Santiago Argelich Hesse takes direct charge of O2’s go-to-market as operator bids to regain growth in FY27. Slice-up of O2’s Consumer business prompts exit of B2C chief Andreas Laukenmann and gives now-Chief Operating Officer Mallik Rao full oversight of tech and ops.
This article includes:
- Organisations: Cellnex; Freenet; Lebara; LycaMobile; O2; PayPal; Telefónica; Telefónica Deutschland; Vodafone Germany.
- Geographic: Germany.
- People: Andreas Laukenmann; Jörg Kablitz; Mallik Rao; Markus Haas; Markus Rolle; Nicole Gerhardt; Santiago Argelich Hesse; Valentina Daiber.
- Themes: AI; business-to-business; business-to-consumer; cloudification; convergence; customer service and sales; digital infrastructure; efficiency programme; fibre; fixed networks; growth strategy; legal and corporate affairs; management reshuffle; mobile and broadband competition; omnichannel; organisational restructuring; partner and wholesale; price cutting; strategic repositioning; telecommunications; transformation; wholesale and partner relationships.
- Events: FY25 results; FY27 growth target; January 2026 CEO takeover; 30 March 2026 Supervisory Board meeting; Capital Markets Day; executive board reshuffle; supervisory board meeting.
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