Dr Nikolai Dobberstein

Partner, Global Lead, Communications, Media and Technology Practice and Malaysia Country Head, Kearney

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Dr Nikolai Dobberstein is the Global Leader of Kearney’s Communications, Media and Technology Practice and the Managing Partner of the Malaysian Practice. He has been involved in multiple business and digital transformation programs of technology companies and telecom operators in Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa. Nikolai was the lead partner for Kearney’s collaboration with the WEF on the Future of Production in ASEAN and a member of the Indian Government’s Innovation Taskforce in 2016/17.

Before joining Kearney in India in 2011, Nikolai was the Exco member for New Businesses at Maxis, Malaysia. Nikolai had P&L responsibility for all data and digital businesses and helped propel Maxis into one of the global top 15 data operators. Before Maxis, Nikolai was 12 years with McKinsey & Company. He was a Director on the Board of Scicom (MSC) Bhd from 2005 to 2017 and Exco member of the Global Wireless Broadband Alliance. Nikolai went to Malaysia in late 1996 when he was involved in setting up the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). He has spent the last 30+ years working in Asia, mostly in Malaysia and India.

Nikolai has been recognised as one of the top 25 technology consultants of 2024 and received Malaysia’s outstanding entrepreneurs lifetime achievement award. He has a PhD in Technology & Innovation Management from the University of Kiel, Germany.