Thomas Aidan Curran
Thomas Aidan Curran, 49, is Deutsche Telekom’s CTO for Products & Innovation. His responsibilities include the Group’s Innovation Management, the development and deployment for one of Europe’s leading ISP, T-Online, and for Europe’s largest IPTV platform, T-Home Entertain. Thomas also heads the new set of three-screen convergent technologies, “Connected Life and Work”, and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.
Thomas founded 5 high tech companies, making an innovative development tool for cross platform software engineering, and a breakthrough product connecting the Internet and SAP. After working for SAP as developer and product manager from 1991 to 1997, he founded Component Software which developed a state of the art e-business integration platform software.
In 2000, he joined Bertelsmann as Group CTO and CIO, respons ible for technology strategy and transforming the IT organization into an international IT and media service provider.
Thomas became a founder and director of the Digital Media Pro ject in 2003. He was also strategic advisor to BBC, Microsoft, Silicon Image and Wherever.TV, and volunteer CTO for the Department of Education New York City. From 2006 to 2009, he was a founder and member of the Executive Board of Telemos AG in Munich.
Thomas graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently held teaching and research positions at Wharton Analysis Center and in Berlin.
