Sven Horlemann, Deutsche Telekom

Sven Horlemann is product manager for Payment & Cards, a business unit of Deutsche Telekom. Responsible for the development of new concepts for prepaid cards, he also manages technical realization projects. In 2008 he oversaw the development of the new prepaid account platform 'PKP'. This platform merges the account data and services of different products on one single platform, ensuring that they use the same processes and interfaces. Apart form the synergetic cost cutting effects this is a new infrastructural concept, which sets one platform as the heart of todays products as well as future products.

As a Master of Arts Horlemann started his career at the Südwestfunk in Baden-Baden. After filling in as an editor for opera and symphony, he switched to a mid-sized firm providing asset management service as an executive assistent. In 2000 he joined DeTeCard Service, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, as a senior product manager for security management. 2005 he joined T-Home, Products & Innovation. He currently is part of the newly formed team of the Produkthaus of T-Home.