Niek Jan van Damme

Member of the Board of Management Deutsche Telekom AG for Germany

Chairman of the T-Home Board of Management

Chairman of the Managing Board T-Mobile Deutschland

Niek Jan van Damme, born in 1961, has been a member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Telekom AG since March 2009. As of July 2009 he is responsible for Germany - i. e. sales, marketing and service for fixed and mobile communications in Germany. Furthermore he is Chairman of the T-Home Board of Management and since October 2009 Chairman of the Managing Board T-Mobile in Germany.

From January 2004 to 2009, Niek Jan van Damme was Chairman of the Managing Board of T-Mobile Netherlands where his successes included the integration of the mobile communications and fixed-network activities of Orange Netherlands into T-Mobile Netherlands (October 2007). In that position, he represented one of the core mobile communications markets on the Executive Committee of the T-Mobile International group.

Niek Jan van Damme studied Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He started his career with Procter & Gamble in 1986 before joining the Dutch retailer Ahold in 1993. Niek Jan van Damme was a Managing Partner at Floor Heijn Retail from 1997 until he joined Ben Nederland, later T-Mobile Netherlands, as Director for Marketing Communications in June 1999.