Dr. Hagen Hultzsch has more than 40 years of experience in Information Technology. He has been a Chairman or Member of the Boards of several enterprises in Germany, and the US after his stint as a member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG. He was instrumental in establishing T-Systems. He was also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of T-Venture. Early in his career, he served as Assistant Professor at Mainz University where he received his Doctorate degree in Physics. After a leave of absence assignment with 1BM's Thomas J. Watson Research Centre, he headed the Computing Centre of GSI Research Center in Darmstadt. He then became the Director of the Technical Services Group at Electronic Data Systems in Germany. After that, he joined Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg as Corporate Executive Director for Organization and Information Systems. In 1973, he joined Deutsche Telekom. Dr. Hultzsch is now a member of the Board of Directors of a number of companies in Germany including Exceet AG/SE, T-Systems Solutions for Research, SciEngines, Axxessio, Breuer Nachrichtentechnik, FhG-FOKUs. He is also a Life Member of IEEE.