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Director-General of the FTTH Council Europe steps down per November 30, 2015
September 2015 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
The FTTH Council Europe announces that its Director-General Hartwig Tauber has decided to step down. Hartwig Tauber has been the Director-General of the FTTH Council since 2007. He will officially resign his position on the 30th of November, 2015. The Board of Directors of the FTTH Council Europe will assess the next steps in the coming weeks.
Hartwig Tauber has been involved with the FTTH Council Europe’s activities since its creation in 2004. He was elected President in 2004, a position he held until 2007, and then kept working for the organisation as Director-General. For more than a decade, he has helped the FTTH Council Europe evolve into the powerful professional and lobbying organisation it is today. From 30 member companies in 2004 to more than 150 nowadays, the organisation has become a global reference and valued source of information for FTTH-related topics. Ground breaking work on network financing, deployment cost modelling and technical workshops allowed the organisation to increase its lobbying power with the European Commission, regulators and operators.
Along with the Board, Hartwig and his team have also worked tirelessly to promote the positive social and economic benefits of ultra-fast fibre access networks. In this regard, the FTTH Conference is a concrete and powerful demonstration of the organisation’s unparalleled commitment to FTTH. Attendance at the annual FTTH Conference has skyrocketed since its inception and the event has become the leading FTTH conference worldwide with more than 3,000 visitors. Furthermore, Hartwig was one of the drivers behind the creation of the FTTH Council Global Alliance (FCGA) – the cooperation of all five global FTTH Councils.
