Deutsche Telekom competitors

Matthew 'Matt' Desch is a Member at The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC), Board Member at Iridium World Communications Ltd, and Chief Executive Officer at Iridium World Communications Ltd and is based in McLean, Virginia. He has worked as Chief Executive Officer at Telcordia Technologies, Supervisor at Bell Labs, and Board Member at Starent Networks. Matthew works or has worked as MEMBER at AOPA Foundation Board of Visitors. He attended University of Chicago between 1983 and 1986 and The Ohio State University between 1976 and 1980.

Served as CEO & President of Equinix from 2007 - 2018. Led the transformation of a $400 million dollar data center company into the clear industry leader in the Internet Infrastructure Sector and the largest global data center platform in the world with a firm value of approximately $46 billion dollars. Platform Equinix extended operations across 5 continents, 26 countries and 52 metropolitan areas with more than 10,000 of the most critical service providers and enterprises in the world.Previously I was with HP, where I served as Senior Vice President of HP Services and oversaw the organization's Consulting and Integration, Managed Services, and Technology Deployment and Support business groups. My tenure with HP came after spending more than 16 years with Electronic Data Systems Corporation in roles that spanned sales, business development, operations, acquisition-driven integration, and the management of international growth.

As the Chief Commercial Officer at Sprint, Dow drives the commercial strategy by leading the sales and marketing for both the postpaid and prepaid segments. This includes overseeing two major brands as the acting CEO of Virgin Mobile USA and President of Boost Mobile. Dow is a veteran of telecommunications and formerly lead the Sprint Prepaid Group before adding the postpaid segment to his responsibilities in November 2017. From these roles, Dow knows how to drive dramatic performance gains, lead corporate turnarounds and establish profitability improvement for aspiring organizations. He also knows how to build engaging company cultures and put the right people, systems and products in place to generate sustained business growth. Additionally, he delivers demonstrated results in P&L responsibility, EBIDTA performance, M&A due diligence, operations management and team leadership. Prior to these dual roles, Dow served as president of the Sprint Wholesale and Prepaid Services division. Before joining Sprint, he served in senior-level executive positions at Clearwire, Alltel Wireless, Western Wireless and McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey, Dow developed strategy and marketing engagements for various industries, including telecommunications, software, automotive and commercial aviation. Dow graduated from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and earned his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).

Tofane Global is a Paris-based company, in global communication services for Telecom and “Over The Top” operators. I founded it in 2017 after I left Orange International Carriers. With the closings of 2 acquisitions signed the same week in March 2018 - ... an unbelievable coincidence ! - our revenues have jumped to ~$1bn. Our strategy is to carve-out the international mobile & carrier services of telecom operators and combine them with our own Tier-1 platforms and teams. We invest or partner in innovative platforms to accelerate the digitization of international services. The acquisition of iBasis, a Royal KPN's subsidiary with a unique innovation track record and the International Wholesale of Altice Group is a perfect start for its execution. With $2.1 Bn sales, I led the transformation of Orange International Carriers, incumbent's wholesaler, into a business-minded leader, #1 for international communications, with new countries (eg Burma) and new clients such as Skype,Google. Before, designed and launched the \'Cash Flow Generation\' plan in the aftermath of the Orange 2005’s warnings. The expectations were outperformed by 20% - From 2001 to 2004, been to Rabat as Managing Director and CFO of incumbent Maroc Telecom - 14,000 emp. to lead the company modernization, and insure its IPO on Paris stock exchange, deploy mobile network and gain 5 million customers, grow by 20% p.a., facing the competition - Prior, worked with Vincent Bollore in executive positions in BtoB specialized services (transport& logistics, real estate, clinics, battery) to successfully implement value-oriented strategies. - Prior worked in Manhattan, NYC for 3 years with Nu-Swift Services

Background spans over twenty years and has been focused on growing and improving the operational, financial and market position of various types of businesses. Proven Operations and Financial executive with extensive experience leading the planning, development and hands-on management of operations for telecommunications and utility companies. Accomplished record of developing strategic and tactical initiatives that maximize enterprise value through a combination of streamlined operations, cost reduction, efficient capital investment, and financial structuring to enable long-term growth. Proactive, driven leader who builds top-performing, diverse teams and coaches individuals to exceed expectations and take personal responsibility for their career growth.

Hands-on internationally experienced CEO with a proven track record of increasing shareholder value through developing strategic plans, building high performing organisations and enhancing operational efficiency and revenues often through the implementation of fundamental change, in both turn-around, scale-up and high-growth situations. Proven funding acquirer and M&A deal sourcing; achieving successful exits both buy and sale side globally.