Kerstin Günther
German business executive (born 1967)
Kerstin Günther (born 1967) is a German business executive. Since 1991, she has held management positions in the Deutsche Telekom Group where in March 2012 she was appointed Senior Vice President Technology Europe, reporting to Claudia Nemat, board member Europe and Technology. From 2013 till 2017, she has been chairwoman of Magyar Telekom, which is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. From 2016 to May 2020, Günther was a member of the Supervisory Board and the Audit Committee of the publicly listed, pan-European stock exchange Euronext N.V. Since June 2020 she is a member of the Supervisory Board and the Audit Committee of Deutsche Wohnen SE. Since April 2019, she is Chief Financial and Technology Officer of the health research center Helmholtz Zentrum München. She is responsible for the areas of finance, law, personnel, infrastructure, IT and digitalization.
Background and education
Born and raised in East Germany, Günther studied electronics at the Wrocław University of Technology in Poland, graduating in 1991. She recalls that at the time only about 2% of students were female. She completed her education at the Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio, where she earned an MBA in finance in 1999.
Career
Günther joined what was then the Deutsche Bundespost in 1991, working in telecommunications. After it was privatized as Deutsche Telekom in 1995, she took on management assignments in Hungary (Senior Vice President Wholesale) and Slovakia (Senior Vice President Strategy and External Affairs) where she spent a total of 12 years.
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