CEO, NGMN Alliance

Anita Döhler has more than 25 years of experience in various telecommunication fields including more than 16 years of senior management responsibilities with operators of mobile communication networks. In addition, she has extensive experience in new business development and innovation, ecosystem- and partner management, standardization, technology strategy and product management, digital transformation. From 2016 until 2020, Anita Döhler held senior management positions at Accenture, including one of their Industry X.0 Innovation Centers.

Prior to joining Accenture, she was 16 years with Vodafone Group as Senior Manager in Technology and Commercial. She also worked at E-Plus Mobilfunk and Philips. She holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Telecommunication Engineering (Novosibirsk, Russia) and an executive MBA degree from Henley Business School (UK). Further, she is a systemic business coach. She is passionate to support the world’s leading operators, vendors and research institutes as CEO of the Next Generation Mobile Network (NGMN) Alliance.

Group CTO and Senior Vice President, Orange Innovation Networks

As of September 1st 2021, Laurent Leboucher leads Orange Innovation Networks organization supporting Orange business units.

He joined Orange in 1992 and held various technical, management and executive positions in several areas (operations, R&D, IT, start-up creation) in France and the United States, with a particular focus on software systems and IT transformations. More recently, within Orange Innovation IT and Services, he led the development of new customer relationship solutions, defined and supported a new IT strategy built on cloud practices and oversaw the IT and Services architecture.

Laurent is “Distinguished Fellow” of the TM Forum. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, from Telecom Paris and has a PhD in computer science. Laurent is also NGMN Board Member.