

Speaker Biography
Stefan Doeblin
Chairman, Network Economy
Stefan sits on the investment boards of a number of hi-tech companies. He was previously a member of the advisory board of central R&D of Deutsche Telekom. Prior to that Stefan was CEO and one of the two major shareholders of the TIMe-start-up management group, and was MD of MFS Communications in Germany (now part of MCI WorldCom) setting up the first local loop access carrier in competition to Deutsche Telekom (getting special permission from the Regulator to install fibre in several cities, one year before deregulation allowed it, and negotiating the first contract with city authorities in Germany to use their ducts for cabling!)
Before his work at MFS, Stefan was Business Development Manager at British Telecom plc., in charge of acquisitions, strategic alliances and strategic projects (outsourcing, system integration and consulting). Before he worked as senior consultant for Arthur D. Little in client projects at Swisscom, BT and Siemens. Stefan graduated in Mathematics and Business Administration and Engineering and started his career as a systems engineer at SEL Software GmbH, now part of Alcatel. Stefan has worked around the world and is author of the books “Wie beeinflußt der Kapitalmarkt die Innovation in der Telekommunikation”, published in 2001, “eCompanies, gründen, wachsen, ernten”, published 2000 and "Just in Time bei Software Grossprojekten", published in 1991.



























