Dr. Heinrich Arnold is chief executive officer of Detecon International and in this position is in charge of the leading management and technology consultancy “Made in Germany”. In his previous position as Senior Vice President Innovation & Laboratories, he steered group research and innovation activities at Deutsche Telekom and directed T-Labs and its offices in Silicon Valley, Berlin, and Israel. He is founder and supervisory board member of a number of Telekom high-tech spin-offs. His career began with an international top management consultancy, and he was co-founder of one of the first German-Chinese high-tech startup. His service on management and advisory boards of a number of companies (including Connected Living e.V., Fraunhofer FOKUS, Labs Network Industrie 4.0, Max Planck Institute for Innovation, Munich Circle, Technology Foundation Berlin) makes his expertise and experience available to the innovation community in Germany. Wirtschaftswoche counted him among the 100 Digital Leaders in Germany as early as 2012. Arnold holds a Master of Science degree in engineering from Stanford University; he studied technical physics at the TU Munich and earned his doctorate in technology management.
