Herbert Damker serves as the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for CAMARA. At Deutsche Telekom (DT), he is integral to the Technical Product Management team of DT’s Magenta API Capabilities Exposure program and holds a position as a Cloud Architect within the Group Technology department. His tenure at DT’s Technology & Innovation area includes a variety of roles in strategy, technical program management and architecture, focusing on Service Delivery Platforms, Content Distribution Networks, Network Function Virtualization, Telco Infrastructure Cloud, Edge Computing, and APIs for 5G Core Networks. Herbert has made significant contributions to ETSI NFV, CNTT (now LFN Anuket), and the GSMA Operator Platform Group (OPG). He currently is a member for DT in the GSMA Open Gateway Technical work stream.

Before joining DT, Herbert was a Senior Consultant for IT Management at Detecon, a Program Manager at a software company, and engaged in a research project on Security in Telecommunication. He earned his Computer Science diploma from the University of Karlsruhe.

Markus Kümmerle is responsible for Engineering and Production within the Magenta API Capabilities Exposure organization of Deutsche Telekom. In 1995 Markus joined debis Systemhaus, at the time a subsidiary of Daimler, which was later transferred to the Deutsche Telekom Group. He worked as Executive Program Manager and Customer Service Delivery Manager in the automotive area for customers like Airbus, Audi, BMW, Boeing, Mercedes, VW. From 2014 until 2020 Markus was in addition responsible for project and service quality for the System Integration unit, later Digital Solutions unit of T-Systems. In 2020 he took over the responsibility for the Magenta API Capabilities Exposure Program of Deutsche Telekom which was transferred in early 2024 into a line organization. In early 2021 Deutsche Telekom, together with other partners initiated CAMARA, which then was launched at MWC2022. Markus drives the activities in CAMARA since the beginning and acts as a Deutsche Telekom representative in GSMA Open Gateway.

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