Jens Schulte-Bockum (born November 20, 1966, in
Kirchhellen) is a German manager. He is the former CEO of the German branch of
Vodafone and since 2017 he has been Group COO of
South African telecom multi-national
MTN Group, Johannesburg.
Life
Schulte-Bockum was born in Kirchhellen in
Ruhr
The Ruhr ( ; german: Ruhrgebiet , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km ...
in 1966. He studied Liberal Arts at
Emory University in
Atlanta, US, and economics in
Kiel, Germany, and completed his master's degree in economics at the
University of Chicago in 1993.
["Friedrich Joussen bereit für neue Aufgaben bei Vodafone", in: '' Börsen-Zeitung'', 15 March 2012, retrieved 14 February 2023.] He was a research assistant at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy from 1989 to 1992.
From 1993, Schulte-Bockum worked for the management consultancy
McKinsey, heading its
Hamburg office from 2000. In 2003, he moved on to Vodafone, where he was initially global head of strategy at the UK site.
He then oversaw their devices division from 2005.
From 2008 to 2012, he was the CEO of Vodafone Netherlands, and in 2012 he was appointed COO and then CEO of Vodafone Germany. In this position, Schulte-Bockum had to introduce cost-cutting measures to withstand increased competition. Furthermore, he drove the expansion of the
LTE
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Science and technology
* LTE (telecommunication) (Long-Term Evolution), a telephone and mobile broadband standard
** LTE Advanced, an enhancement
*** LTE Advanced Pro
* Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers produced by Compaq
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network. In his time at Vodafone he oversaw the acquisition of
MDAX
The MDAX is a stock index which lists German companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The index is calculated by Deutsche Börse.
Until 2021 included the 60 Prime Standard shares from sectors that rank immediately below (in value of mar ...
-listed
Kabel Deutschland Holding AG, for which he became chairman of the supervisory board.
In 2015, Vodafone announced that Schulte-Bockum had stepped down. Since 2017, Schulte-Bockum has been Group COO of
South African telecommunications company MTN Group.
He has served on the supervisory board of
Lagos-listed MTN Nigeria Plc since 2017.
Schulte-Bockum was a member of the presidium of the
BDI (Federation of German Industries) from 2012 to 2015.
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Vodafone people
German businesspeople
German chief executives
German business executives