Kathrin Buvac

Kathrin has more than 13 years of international management experience in the telecommunications industry. Her previous roles have ranged from financial management, corporate auditing and in-house consulting, business development, mergers and acquisitions, turnaround management and synergy execution. Kathrin is Nokia Networks' Vice President, Corporate Strategy. As the company’s chief strategist, Kathrin helps to shape Nokia Networks' vision and strategy by working with the company’s executives and senior leaders, customers and analysts worldwide. Kathrin is responsible for the development and implementation of Nokia Networks corporate strategy including market forecasting, competitive intelligence, the formulation of the company’s strategic plan addressing new markets, portfolio and services areas and business development that seeks to expand the company's portfolio by capitalizing on it's assets. Before being named to her current position in January 2013, Kathrin in her role as Chief of staff to the CEO was instrumental in building the company's current strategy which repositioned the company as a high quality, innovative and focused mobile broadband and services company. Before NSN, Kathrin held positions at Siemens’ carrier related operations for fixed and mobile networks. Her responsibilities included managing the strategic investment of the US based routing company Unisphere Networks and its later sale to Juniper Networks in 2002 as well as leading the financial carve out of the Siemens Mobile Phones business to the Taiwanese mobile phone manufacturer BenQ in 2005. Kathrin earned a Diploma Degree in Business Information Systems from the University of Cooperative Education, Germany and a Bachelor Degree in business administration from the Open University London, with a concentration in economic value-add. Kathrin is based in Munich, Germany, having lived in the US, UK and Italy previously.