Working Experience
Nationality
German
Date of Appointment
2 May 2025
Rainer brings 25 years of global business, technology and strategy leadership experience. He has built, transformed and grown businesses across digital sectors, including Telecommunications, IT Services, Media & Entertainment, Analytics & AI, and FinTech, in mature and emerging markets. His passion is sustainable company value creation.
Prior to Axiata, Rainer served as the Group Chief Operating Officer at Telia Company, the listed Nordic and Baltic telecom and entertainment market leader and also led the group transformation. Before, he was Group Chief Operating Officer at Dialog Axiata, leading its businesses and digital transformation, Chief Product & Innovation Officer at Reliance Jio in India to launch what is now the world’s largest data network, and worked in senior executive leadership positions at Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile International AG, and McKinsey & Company. He served as Non-Executive Director at Rain South Africa Ltd., South Africa’s digital telco, as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Deutsche Telekom UK Ltd., and as Senior Advisor to Bain and McKinsey & Company.