While currently on sabbatical until Feb 2020, partly caregiving for his father, partly doing some side projects as investor, Helmut was heading Innovation Management within Deutsche Telekom Products & Innovation since May 2010 and was responsible for seeding and driving innovation dynamics & culture and thus supporting the setup of new business in products, services and platforms, such as currently Big Data, CyberSecurity and Global Cloud Education.
Deutsche Telekom’s annual Innovation Day, T-City from 2007-12 and today building an ICT Open Innovation Ecosystem just to name a few examples. Besides that various engagements as mentor and partner of entrepreneurial programs and consortia fostering cooperation between DT and start-ups of the digital space. Helmut actively shaped DT’s innovation and new business development since 2003. Before that, he helped set up Deutsche Telekom’s digital broadband cable business until 2002.