René Obermann

René Obermann has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airbus SE since 2020.
Alongside his role at Airbus, René works as Chairman of Warburg Pincus Europe, a leading global private equity firm that he joined in 2015. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board at IONOS SE, a publicly listed web productivity and cloud company.

He previously served as a member of various company boards including E.ON, Spotify, Allianz Deutschland and Telenor and as CEO of Ziggo BV in The Netherlands in 2014.

René worked at Deutsche Telekom Group (DT) from 1998 until 2013. After running DT’s mobile division (T-Mobile International), he was appointed as CEO of DT in November 2006, where he remained until December 2013.

He began his career with a business traineeship at BMW AG in Munich. He then founded his own business in 1986: ABC Telekom, a distribution and services company in the telecommunications sector. After Hutchison Whampoa acquired ABC Telekom in 1991, René was appointed Managing Partner of the resulting entity, Hutchison Mobilfunk GmbH and was CEO of that company between 1993 and 1998. The company became one of the first virtual mobile network operators in Germany under his leadership.

From 2007 to 2013, René also served as Vice President of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM).

In 2013 he was awarded the rank of Officer of the French Legion of Honour.

Current Mandates:

• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Airbus SE (Public Company)
• Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of IONOS SE (Public Company)
• Chairman of Warburg Pincus Europe