Founder & sole director of Veles Capital. A career operator who has led, scaled and transformed some of the world's best-known technology and telecoms businesses.
Rene Schuster has spent more than 25 years at CXO level across telecommunications, IT, media, healthcare and retail. He began his career as a development engineer at Robert Bosch before becoming a partner at KPMG, leading consulting across Europe and the Middle East.
He went on to hold senior leadership roles at Compaq and Hewlett-Packard, and in 2004 became Global Director at Vodafone.
As CEO of Telefónica Deutschland (O2 Germany) from 2009, he led one of the most significant growth and consolidation stories in European telecoms — and one of the continent's largest IPOs.
Former CEO, Telefónica Deutschland (O2). Senior leadership at Compaq, HP, Vodafone & KPMG. Group COO experience and multiple board chair roles.
What Rene led as chief executive — the kind of structural growth Veles Capital now helps other businesses pursue.
Partner, leading consulting across Europe & the Middle East.
Senior leadership roles in global technology.
Global Director (from 2004).
CEO of Telefónica Deutschland — scaling, IPO and consolidation.
International group operating leadership at the highest level.
Founder & director — putting decades of operating experience to work for others.
"Great companies are built on structure as much as vision. I help leaders build both."
Rene founded Veles Capital to do for other businesses what he spent his career doing inside large organisations: find the constraints holding growth back, redesign the structure beneath the ambition, and stay in the room until the change is real.
Where the opportunity is compelling, that conviction extends to investment — backing select projects with capital as well as counsel.
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