Raimund Schmolze, T-Mobile

Raimund Schmolze is Vice President Business Development & Innovation at T-Mobile International. He heads the DT Creation Center, a unit that enables the group wide systematic development of new product and service ideas. Furthermore, he is responsible for the international mobile data growth programme of T-Mobile that coordinates the explosive increase in data usage that is driven by customers' dynamically growing demand in mobile internet services. Previous to his role in the mobile data business Schmolze headed the company's European Customer Insights unit.

Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom Schmolze was with McKinsey & Company, a management consultancy, in Vienna, Amsterdam and Hamburg. He holds a PhD in Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics.