Jens T. Elsner

• sales and business development in PPDR sector (public protection and disaster relief) in the EFTA market • identification and management of sales and integration partners for airborne, maritime and terrestrial surveillance solutions • bidmanagement, contract negotiation for entire VITES portfolio: IP-Mesh, pLTE/5G, SatCom-on-the-Move - SOTM phased array antennas with beam steering, long range data links, GPS Jammer Detection • market trend analysis

• project director of 10+ diverse internal startups developing digital products • initiate and guide Smart City/Mobility projects in cooperation with partners (BMW, Infineon, MVG/SWM, MAN) and unternehmertum • co-initiator of DCL (Digital Creativity Lab) – the Nokia co-creation space for engaging with startups and ecosystem partners • director of PMO (project management office) for the integration of Bell Labs into Nokias CTO-Technology Innovation Unit in cooperation with McKinsey

develop strategic technology roadmap and manage related investment/budget decsions (5G, Cloud, AI/ML, IoT, Industry 4.0, Cognitive Networks)

manage lifecycle of a OSS portfolio with 40+ products

manage Ethernet/IP and PON (passive optical network ) products, drive major sales engagments with Tier1 telco players

direct sales support unit in sino-german JV for DWDM/SDH/OSS portfolio , location Guangzhou & Beijing

head product management activivities (R&D planning, sales service enabling) for network management product

system testing of GSM and TETRA networks

Dipl.-Ing. (UNI)