After studying economics at the universities of Hanover and Bremen, Carola Böttcher began her career at Deutsche Telekom AG – initially in marketing for small and medium-sized enterprises. She followed this with, among other things, a role as an executive assistant for the fixed network area in mobile and business customer sales. In 2016, she moved to T-Systems’ then-young public cloud division. Since 2023, she has worked as a PreSales Consultant for application modernization, specifically mainframe and mainframe modernization.