Rene Obermann

Rene Obermann serves as Board Member at inexio Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation. He also serves as Partner & Managing Director, Technology, Media and Telecommunications at Warburg Pincus. He is also an Angel Investor. Obermann is based in the firm's London office and will focus on the identification and evaluation of new investments in the TMT sector globally, as well as representing the firm in Germany. Obermann was most recently Chief Executive Officer of Ziggo N.V., until its acquisition by Liberty Global. Prior to Ziggo, Obermann worked at Deutsche Telekom AG from 1998 until 2013. After leading the mobile division within that Group, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Telekom AG in November 2006, which he remained until December 2013. Obermann began his career with a business apprenticeship at BMW AG in Munich. In 1986, he founded ABC Telekom, a company marketing and distributing telecommunication equipment and providing technical services. After the acquisition of ABC Telekom by Hutchison Whampoa in 1991, he became Managing Partner of the resulting company, Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, and then Chief Executive Officer from 1993-1998. Obermann serves as a Supervisory Board member at E.ON, ThyssenKrupp, 1and1 and Spotify.