Director Platform and Technology Management
Telekom Austria

BSF Chairman

Since 1999 Helmut Leopold is with Telekom Austria where he currently holds the position of the Managing Director Platform and Technology Management. He is responsible for implementing new technologies and the realization of the new services in the infrastructure of Telekom Austria. Before,he had filled various management positions at Alcatel since 1994. From 1989 to 1994 he served as a research engineer at Alcatel ELIN Research Center where he covered the fields of high performance networking and multimedia communications.

Mr. Leopold has been always actively involved in European projects in broadband (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS and COST) and in international standardization (ETSI). He is a member of various task forces in telecommunication programs of the Austrian Government, and since 1997 he has been a lecturer on Broadband Communications at the University of Technology of Vienna and he has been evaluator in the R&D programmes of the European commission. He is also Vice president of the Austrian Research Center Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW) and is president of the IPV6 Task Force in Austria. Mr. Leopold holds a degree in Electronics and Communications from the Technical College HTBLV Rankweil, Austria and a degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Vienna