Dirk Woessner leaving Rogers

Rogers Communications Inc.’s president of consumer business, Dirk Woessner, is leaving the company and is headed back to Deutsche Telekom AG (DT). A Rogers spokesperson confirmed in an email that Woessner will leave the company at the end of November and that Rogers is searching for a successor. It was only last month that Rogers said Woessner would take over its expanded consumer unit. "This is a great opportunity for Dirk to return home to Germany and take on an expanded role. He has made tremendous contributions to Rogers and built a strong consumer team who know what they need to do to deliver results,” Rogers said in a statement. Woessner will succeed the departing Niek Jan van Damme, a member of DT’s management board, on Jan. 1 next year, according to a Tuesday DT press release. “I am looking forward to working with and to his return. He knows this company better than nearly anyone else,” DT CEO Timotheus Hoettges said in the release, adding Woessner was “able to gather valuable experience” outside of DT and help Rogers “back to a course of growth.” Woessner had been with Rogers since 2015, when former Rogers CEO Guy Laurence appointed him as head of consumer. Before that, he led DT’s sales and distribution for wireless and wireline services in Germany. He held management positions at DT since 2002, the release said. Woessner is also the latest Laurence hire to leave, following a string of departures including chief strategy officer Frank Boulben in April and enterprise business president Nitin Kawale in May. Rogers also announced Tuesday that Dean Prevost will succeed Kawale as the new president of enterprise business, starting September 12. Prevost spent a combined 17-plus years at AT&T Inc. in Canada (in strategy and corporate development) and the BCE Inc.-purchased MTS Allstream (just over five of those years being spent as president), according to his LinkedIn profile. CORRECTION: A previous version of this story indicated Rogers would begin the search for Woessner's successor in November.

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