Wolfgang Odenthal

Experienced freelance Senior Consultant with extensive expertise in the development of innovative digital products (B2C, B2B, B2P) & solutions as well as overall project management in the IT, wholesale, and product sectors within the mobile communications, telecommunications, and energy industries.

Expert knowledge in:

Mobile communications (5G NSA / 5G SA), broadband, IIoT, IoT.

Extensive experience in managing large to medium-sized projects with up to 150 employees and a duration of up to 3 years (Agile and Waterfall).

Program & project experience in ICT, StartUps, energy services, software development, and insurance.

Flexible, meticulous, quick learner, effective, and efficient.

Extensive experience in creating concepts and decision papers for top management.

My extensive experience in product & project management, wholesale, business development, controlling, technology, and operations allows me to quickly view issues from various stakeholder perspectives and derive requirements for individual assignments.

My decision papers for managing directors and executive boards have optimally prepared the decision-makers.

Most beautiful successes:

- As project manager, responsible for the 5G connection of Drillisch Online to 1&1 Mobilfunk (up to successful connection) and the driving force for the concretization of 5G requirements development

- Subsequently, I was responsible for the commercial 5G Plus launch at Telefonica in 2023 as overall project manager

- Winning the Challenger Award of the E-Plus Group (now merged into Telefonica) for the best Challenger Project in 2010, where I implemented an idea with the project team that was groundbreaking and significantly increased revenue.

In addition, I am a keynote speaker on topics in the commodity, telco, and wireless industries (5G, WiFi6, LoRaWan, etc.) as well as on (i)IoT, particularly on business models, product development, innovations, and market requirements.