Speakers

Dr. Béla Waldhauser is the Chief Executive Officer of Telehouse Deutschland GmbH since 2012 and the head of the integrated operational business of KDDI and Telehouse in Germany since April 2014. Between 2007-2012 he was the Managing Director of Global Switch in Germany. Prior to this he held the same position at TeleCity where he was responsible for TeleCity’s German operations for four years. Before assuming this position, he has been the Managing Director of Teleglobe and responsible for their activities in Germany and Austria. Dr. Waldhauser earned a degree in theoretical physics and began his professional career at Telenorma/Bosch Telecom, where he has started as a trainee and later worked as an Executive Assistant. Following these early years, he went on to GTS-Westcom and later to First Telecom as their Sales and Marketing Director. Since more than a decade Dr. Waldhauser is orchestrating the “Competence Group Data Centre & Infrastructure” at the eco e. V. In this position he is also leading the related working group. As of 2018 Béla Waldhauser is the spokesperson for the “Alliance for strengthening the Digital Infrastructure in Germany”. Since 2021 Dr. Waldhauser is member of the Policy Group of the European Data Center Association (EUDCA) and as of 2022 Board member of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact (CNDCP).