Founder of Abc Telekom and The Phone House Telecom GmbH, René Richard Obermann is a businessperson who has been the head of 15 different companies and presently holds the position of Chairman of Airbus SE and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus International LLC.

He is also on the board of Airbus Defence & Space GmbH, Allianz Deutschland AG and Inexio Beteiligungs GmbH (former Chairman-Supervisory Board) and Vice President for BITKOM Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft-Telekommunikation.

In the past Mr. Obermann held the position of Chairman-Management Board at Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board of 1&1 IONOS SE, CEO & Chairman-Executive Board at Deutsche Telekom AG Chairman-Supervisory Board of T-Systems Business Services GmbH, Chairman at T-Systems ITS GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board of T-Systems International GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board for T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Chief Executive Officer of Telekom Deutschland GmbH, Chief Executive Officer for T-Mobile International AG and Chief Executive Officer for Deutsche Telekom, Inc. (which are all subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom AG), Vice President of German Association for Information Technology, Director at T-Mobile USA, Inc., Chairman-Supervisory Board at STRATO AG and Chief Executive Officer at Vodafoneziggo Employment BV.