Claudia Nemat

Claudia_NematBorn in 1968, Claudia Nemat has been a member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG since October 2011 and is responsible for the Board area Europe and Technology.

Before joining Deutsche Telekom AG, Claudia Nemat spent 17 years working for McKinsey&Company where she was elected Partner in 2000, and Senior Partner (“Director”) in 2006. Among other responsibilities during her time there, she was Co-leader of the global Technology Sector and led the unit for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Her main areas of expertise include large-scale strategic and operational turnaround and transformation programs, especially for global technology companies as well as in the software and telecommunications industries. She also led McKinsey’s initiatives on Europe based global technology leadership.

Mrs. Nemat has worked in numerous European countries as well as North and South America.

Since 2016, Claudia Nemat has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Airbus Group.

Claudia Nemat studied physics at University of Cologne, where she has also taught in the department of Physics and Mathematics.


FRIDAY, October 14, 2016 | MAIN STAGE | 11:45 – 12:30


Disrupt – or be disrupted

Large companies find change hard. Especially developing disruptive innovations that might displace their value propositions. Most of them try to compete only when it’s too late, and they fail.
But there is still hope: In this talk I will show you what we have detected to constantly improve our competitive advantage and why everyone should believe in technology.