Nikolai Dobberstein is a Partner of Kearney. He has over 30 years of consulting experience and has been involved in numerous business and digital transformation programs of technology companies and telecom operators in Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and Africa. Dobberstein 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 2016-2017.
Before joining Kearney in India in 2011, Dobberstein served as the Exco member for New Businesses at Maxis, Malaysia’s leading telecom operator, where he led data and digital businesses. Before Maxis, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company. Dobberstein also held directorship at Scicom (MSC) Bhd, Malaysia’s top BPO provider, and was an Exco member of the Global Wireless Broadband Alliance.
Dobberstein came to Malaysia in late 1996 to participate in establishing the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC). He has spent the last 30 years working in Asia, based in Malaysia and India. Dobberstein is German and has a PhD in Technology & Innovation Management from the University of Kiel, Germany.
