Claus Karthe is an MBA from IMD Switzerland and has a 22 year spanning career in telecommunications with proven business management achievements in multinational companies both on the supplier and operator side. Claus is energized by building up new businesses and solving complex problems where his solid engineering and business administration degrees as well as his consulting and coaching skills come handy. As an entrepreneur, Claus possesses proven business startup skills which brought him his wide industrial (Mobile Content, Telecommunication Networks, Maritime Communications) and geographical (USA, Central Europe, Middle East, South East Asia, Australia and Japan) experience. Claus is founding shareholder of several IT/Telecom Companies in the Mobile Content, Content Management, IT & Telecom Services field and BPO operations. He was a member of business board of Nokia Asia Pacific until the year 2002. Lately, Claus gained strong operational experience as CTO/COO of a wireless carrier in the maritime GSM sector. Claus is based in Singapore.