O-RAN ALLIANCE announces its new Chairman of the Board and new COO

The O-RAN ALLLIANCE is pleased to announce that Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi has been elected as new chairman of the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s Board of Directors. Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi, Chairman of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom, has served as COO of O-RAN ALLIANCE since its founding in 2018. Alex replaces Andre Fuetsch, who served as chairman from 2018 until his retirement from AT&T in August 2022.

The Board appointed Stefan Engel-Flechsig as O-RAN ALLIANCE’s COO. Stefan also has been engaged as a critical part of O-RAN’s staff since its founding.

The new O-RAN ALLIANCE leadership stays fully committed to O-RAN’s mission to transform Radio Access Networks towards open, intelligent, virtualized and fully interoperable RAN.