A1 Telekom Austria has appointed Dr Alexander Kuchar as its Group Director Technology & Future Services with responsibility for the new group-wide technology strategy and future services.
In his new position, which he took up on February 1 2018, Kuchar will, amongst other things, drive forward the introduction of new cloud and over-the-top-based services (OTT) and the modernisation of convergent mobile communications and fixed line infrastructure, according to the Austrian telco.
In 2011 Kuchar was appointed Director Group Procurement and Director Supply Chain Management A1. In this position, he generated group-wide purchasing synergies and set up the A1 logistics centre near Vienna.
Kuchar joined the company in 2000. He studied telecommunications and electrical engineering at Vienna’s Technical University TU Wien.