Omantel appoints Dr. Gerd Wittkemper as Omantel Board Member

Dr Wittkemper is an expert in information and communication technology, with an emphasis on sector level policies, strategy-based transformations of corporate entities, mergers and acquisitions, and disruptive technology and operating models. His experience spans over more than 30 years in mature as well as developing markets.

Dr. Wittkemper retired from Booz Allen Hamilton in 2006. He was Senior Vice President based in Berlin, Germany. For more than 9 years he was a member of the firm's Worldwide Leadership Team managing the global Communications, Media and Technology Practice (CMT) during the first 4 years and being Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton Europe/Middle East thereafter.

Dr. Wittkemper's main consulting focus lies on strategy, organization and technology management for industry and for government agencies. In the public sector he is focusing on policy advice, economic development and e-government.

In his more than 20 years in Consulting he has developed comprehensive plans for restructuring and renewal of business units and entire companies. These transformation programs included the design of worldwide strategies and the resulting organizational adaptations as well as the coordination of the implementation plans by improving the underlying processes and systems for sales, marketing, logistics, production, customer care, controlling and administration. The strategic programs comprised portfolio design through global strategies as well as acquisitions. In many cases, Dr. Wittkemper also implemented post merger integration programs.

Dr. Wittkemper personally served companies like Deutsche Telekom, Saudi Telekom, Thailand Organisation of Telecom, Telkomsel of Indonesia in yearlong restructuring programs; he also advised telecom carriers in many European countries, USA, Latin America, Australia, and Japan. In parallel he supported many telecom supplier, computer and component companies.

Before being elected as Partner of Booz Allen, Dr. Wittkemper was head of Corporate Development at Philips, Germany. In the beginning of the 80`s he

coordinated the restructuring program which led Philips back to profitability. During his last two years with Philips he was a member of the management team of Philips Kommunikations Industrie AG, Germany, with responsibility for strategy development, acquisitions and public relations.

Dr. Wittkemper began his professional career as an industrial engineer with Procter & Gamble. Shortly afterwards he was promoted to head of production .

Later on he joined McKinsey & Company. Over a period of five years he worked as a consultant to various inter¬national companies like Siemens AG, Bayer AG, BASF AG, and Reemtsma AG, focusing on worldwide strategies in the electronics/telecommunications, chemical and consumer goods industries.

Dr. Wittkemper studied economics and physics in Hamburg and Göttingen and obtained a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the University of Hamburg. During this time he lectured on Nuclear Physics. At the same time Dr. Wittkemper was representative of the Associate Professors at the Physics Faculty of the Hamburg University. He subsequently lectured on economics as a guest professor at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria.

Dr. Wittkemper is a member of the "Münchner Kreis", a supranational association for telecommunications research which supports the development and implementation of new communication systems. For several years he was on the Advisory Board of Transearch, an international Human Resource Management company.

Dr. Wittkemper regularly speaks on topics relating to the development of the Information Society. He also spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He has written many articles addressing new methodologies in strategic planning as well as on industry trends in the global high-tech industries.