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 had 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 2009 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.
Furthermore he is a part of the jury team for “Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis” since 2011. The price is awarded in conjunction with the yearly “Future Thinking” congress.
In July 2014 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) appointed Dr. Waldhauser in his position as an industry expert and member of the eco e.V. – guiding the organisation’s expert task force for data centres. For the BMBF he is involved in the development of the new strategy platform “IKT in H2020”.
As of February 2018 he is the spokesmen of the “Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany”.
