Speaker Profile

Christian Hillabrant is Chief Executive Officer and member of the Management Board of Vantage Towers AG, a leading telecommunications infrastructure company based in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

Christian has an impressive professional career and has held various executive positions – most recently the position of Chief Operating Officer at Tillman Infrastructure, a fast growing wireless tower company in the United States, Samsung Electronics America and Ericsson in Europe and North America, where he held several key positions. He has also gained valuable experience as a Board Member with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Competitive Carriers Association. With over two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry, Christian Hillabrant has a proven track record in strategic leadership and management of telecommunications companies in the U.S. and Europe. 

 

Vantage Towers is a leading tower company in Europe with more than 84,000 sites in ten countries, connecting people, businesses and devices in cities and rural areas. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Düsseldorf. Vantage Towers’ portfolio includes towers, masts, rooftop sites, distributed antenna systems (DAS) and small cells. By building, operating and leasing this infrastructure to MNOs or other network providers such as IoT companies or utilities, Vantage Towers is making a significant contribution to a better-connected Europe. While already 100% of the grid electricity that Vantage Towers uses to operate its infrastructure is obtained from renewable energy sources, green energy generation is piloted directly on site with the help of solar panels and micro wind turbines, and also hydrogen solutions are under testing. This fits well into the overall strategy of the company to drive a sustainable digitalisation in Europe and to support partners through technological innovation in decarbonisation and achieving their climate goals.