Geoff Hollingworth

  • Chief Marketing Officer at Rakuten Symphony
Geoff Hollingworth - Chief Marketing Officer at Rakuten Symphony

Geoff is a software engineer by birth, being fortunate to be involved in both mobile and the internet as they have started and have grown. Geoff first worked at CERN as Tim Berners Lee invented the internet and then joined Ericsson in 1991 as 2G was starting.

Throughout his journey in telecom and cloud, he’s been a software engineer and led research and development, business development, network rollouts, consulting, marketing campaigns and strategic communications for his teams.

He has been embedded in AT&T, helping to catapult their Silicon Valley innovation initiatives and delivered the world’s first live global mobile sports channel with the Volvo Ocean Race Round the World Race.

Geoff also served as chief marketing officer for MobiledgeX, a startup founded by Deutsche Telekom, focusing on the mobile edge computing space.

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