🙏 Gratitude 🙏
After more than a decade, I'm bidding farewell to my current role here at Product Innovation and Customer Experience (#PIX) in Deutsche Telekom's Technology and Innovation (#VTI) board area (spoiler: I am not leaving Deutsche Telekom 😉). It's been an incredible journey so far - filled with growth, learning, and unforgettable experiences. If there's one emotion encapsulating how I feel now that parting is only 24 hours away it's gratitude.
Most importantly, I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity to work with, learn from and eventually become friends with so many brilliant people. Mentioning all of them would clearly shatter the frame here, but I cant' leave without a shoutout to my incredible current Broadband Innovation & Engagement leadership team (Marion Wolf, Sascha Dech, Vladimir Trendafilov, Sven Cornelius, Diana Zalbidea, Michael Schneider, Jascha Minow), a whole bunch of amazing "partners in crime" from more recent and earlier days (Alex Ball, Hanna Rieke, Uli Bornhauser, Pedro Caldeira dos Santos, Holger Nathrath, Kay Schrader, Hatem Mousselly Sergieh, SUBASHINI RAJAN, Luis Felipe Villa Arenas, Javier Antonio Acosta Corredor, Sapan Kumar Jain, Bharat Jagtap, Frank Lischke, Benno Willoweit, Jörg Gutmann, Philipp Neumann, Kerstin Hennig, Martin Griedelbach, Mandana Büttner, Rickard Damm, Shweta Shetty, Torsten Winkler, @Fabian Schützeichel, Michael-Torsten Esser, Jon Carter, Christoph Mohr) as well as formative leaders I had the privilege to learn from along the way: Olaf Jutt, Thorsten Müller, @Bernd Hammer, Tibor Megyeri, Omar TAZI, Pedro Bandeira, Jonathan Abrahamson. Your support, mentorship, and camaraderie have meant a lot to me.
Secondly, I am incredibly grateful and #werkstolz for having the opportunity to be part of Deutsche Telekom as a company. It's hard to imagine a better place to generate true customer impact while at the same time being exposed to so many opportunities for learning and growth. Building and launching a multi-million user app from ground up (#ConnectApp), establishing one of the first actionable machine learning based data products at scale in broadband (#PredictiveMaintenance), pushing the boundaries of telco customer engagement by standing on the shoulders of giants (#OneApp), building and working closely with incredibly talented teams across the whole globe (#India), being exposed to an energizing community of talents via #TalentHub (Inge Rader), finding a home in a community pushing #productexcellence (Tibor Megyeri)… I could easily continue the list. In a nutshell: Thank you #DeutscheTelekom for constantly providing places to #QuestionTodayandCreateTomorrow
I'll cherish the memories made and the connections formed up until now and can't wait to open the next chapter of my journey within Deutsche Telekom. Stay tuned… 😉
Florian
President • CMO • Editor in Chief • Founder
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