T-Systems Appoints David Andrews to Vice President of ICT-Operations and Member of the Management Board in North America

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- T-Systems, the business-to-business Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) unit of Deutsche Telekom, has appointed David Andrews to its North America Management Board as vice president, ICT-Operations.

He comes to this new position from his most recent roles as the T-Systems account executive for Volkswagen in the Americas and Africa regions as well as the Managing Director of T-Systems Argentina, where he led the company's local restructuring activities.

"David's breadth of experience and understanding of the T-Systems global organization makes him a strong addition to the TSNA executive team," said Heike Auerbach, Managing Director, T-Systems in North America.  "His first priority will be to ensure that the North American delivery activities related to recently announced global contracts with BP and Phillips are successfully transitioned to T-Systems."

David has more than 15 years of broad-based experience in the Information Technology industry across the sales, account management, service management, and delivery functions.  He joined T-Systems UK in 2001 as the Head of Service Management and Desktop Services.  Since that time, David has held a number of global positions with increasing levels of responsibility within T-Systems.

His appointment was effective January 1, 2010.

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About Deutsche Telekom AG

Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with over 150 million mobile customers, around 39 million fixed-network lines and approximately 17 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2009).  Its product brands are T-Home (fixed-network telephony, broadband Internet), T-Mobile (mobile communications), and T-Systems (ICT solutions).  As an international Group with approximately 260,000 employees operating in around 50 countries worldwide (as of September 30, 2009), Deutsche Telekom generated more than half of its revenue - EUR 61.6 billion - outside of Germany in 2008.

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About T-Systems

Drawing on a global infrastructure of data centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions.  On this basis, Deutsche Telekom's corporate customers arm provides integrated solutions for the networked future of business and society.  Some 46,000 employees at T-Systems combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add significant value to customers' core business all over the world.  The corporate customers arm generated revenue of around EUR 9.3 billion in the 2008 financial year.

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