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Berlin, DE

Luzern, CH, CH

World Innovations Forum envisions prosperity for all nations through innovation and entrepreneurship.

Berlin, Berlin, DE

Davidson Shamir Technology Growth Debt Fund provides debt financing to mid-late stage tech companies in Europe, with a focus on Germany. Growth Debt is a form of hybrid capital, featuring both debt and equity components, customized for young and growing tech companies.

delphai is the premier analytics platform for actionable insights on the innovations and companies driving change across industries.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Chief Operating Officer for the unit Data Management and Big Data. The Big Data unit reports directly to the executive board and was formed in 2015. Its portfolio consists of a rich solution set for Data Governance.
• Responsible for the Big Data and Data Management portfolio, revenue, cost and headcount.
• Growing the Big Data Unit from 20 to around 600 employees globally.
• Strategic portfolio investment and disinvestment decisions.
• Setting strategic goals, unit KPIs, directions and ensuring delivery and execution for Big Data and Data Management.
• Launching new Big Data solutions such as Vora, Data Hub, Data as a Service, and Data Intelligence.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Senior Vice President for Strategic Research and Innovation reporting to SAP’s CTO and Executive Board Member responsible for Products and Innovations at SAP.
• Initiated and established SAP Strategic Research and Innovation unit at SAP.
• Responsible for community-based research activities.
• Chairing European Research organizations, i.e. NESSI (Networked European Software and Service Initiative) with more than 440 Members from Industry and Research.
• Defining and influencing the European strategic research agenda SRA and BDVA (European Big Data Value Association).
• Board member in research organizations representing SAP, i.e. Software Campus, Software Cluster and Connected Living.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Drove and implemented an innovation culture at SAP, by establishing Innovation Centers, by strengthening the company culture through design thinking, and by developing a platform for collaboration with research, academia, customers and startups. Kick-started SAP's first Innovation Center. Grew the innovation team to over 100 colleagues with team members in.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Direct report to the CTO of SAP, Vishal Sikka.
• Head of the global strategic-projects unit reporting to Executive Board Member with teams in Silicon Valley, and Germany.
• Managing cross-development technology roadmaps and initiatives.
• Establishing development processes for the office of the CTO (OCTO).
• Technical evaluations and due diligence for companies to be acquired.
• Drove strategic projects to explore and formulate SAP’s data management strategy.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Chairman’s Projects. Direct report to the CTO of SAP and responsible for the relationship with the HPI. Worked intensively with Prof. Hasso Plattner over the course of 9 years.
• Supporting SAP’s chairmen Hasso Plattner with his lecture, seminars and keynotes.
• Managed the relationship and joint projects with the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.
• Established a framework (contracts, IP, budget and resources) in which it was possible to operate and run joint research projects efficiently.
• Drove strategic research projects and initiatives, such as our joint HANA research program with the HPI.
• Link between research in Germany and innovation in Silicon Valley.

Walldorf, BW, DE

Setup a cross-organizational unit (XU) Product Architecture team with the mission to consolidate and evolve SAP's product software architecture to enable sustainable market-leading solutions. XUPA has been reporting directly into both board members Peter Zencke and Shai Agassi. The XU Product Architecture team defined the 3-5 year architecture blueprint.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Successfully established the service-oriented architecture and applied business meaning to the service oriented architecture (SOA) at SAP.
• Formulate and drive SAP’s Enterprise Services Architecture.
• Initiate and establish the “Enterprise Services Inventory” for SAP. It is a collection and structuring of business level content for the service-oriented architecture.
• Participate in architecture review workshops of SAP’s key customer’s regarding SOA.
• Support Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner in developing and lecturing on “Software Trends and Architecture in Enterprise Software Architecture” for Master students at HPI.
• Developed and defined SAP’s strategy for standards: OASIS, ROSETTANET, HL7, W3C, JAVA, etc.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Direct report of the Vice President for Product Strategy at SAPMarkets.SAP Markets was a spin-off of SAP in Silicon Valley developing digital Marketplaces.
• Responsible for defining SAPMarkets product portfolio and strategy.
• Owner of the standardization efforts at SAPMarkets.
• Driving awareness for important standardization efforts: Web Services, Rosetta Net, ebXML, HL7 and more.
• Evaluation of standards and defining importance for SAPMarkets,
• Participation in standardization groups like UDDI, OMG and W3C.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Direct report to the Vice President of Application Development
• Set up a global development team for advanced prototyping.
• Developed with a team of 30 software engineers the Demand Aggregation Application for our digital marketplace.
• Invention, design and development of a patent pending connectivity tool for analytical applications to electronic document sources.
• Responsible for business intelligence business exchange networks.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Responsible program manager for our global data warehouse implementation reporting directly to the CIO and CFO.
• Set up a global project team for our internal data warehouse implementation.
• Recruit project members in Philadelphia, Singapore, and Walldorf.
• Worked jointly with business users for requirements gathering, analyze user requirements (Board, Management, Controlling, HR, Sales, Marketing...) and translate them into technical design specifications.
• Setup Budget/ Resource and Hardware plan.
• Setup project steering committee and advisory board.

Walldorf, BW, DE

• Software engineer for SAP's Company Information System.
• Analyzed user requirements (Sales, Marketing, Service, Finance, Controlling...) and translated them into technical design specifications.
• Designed and developed the Company Information System (CIS) with the ABAP/4 Workbench.
• Designed, implemented and adopted a generic and flexible user interface in R/3 (Inbox-Concept).
• Integrated Logistics Information System (LIS), Executive Information System (EIS), and Management Information System (MIS) into SAP’s Company Information System.
• Developed migration programs from mainframe contract management system to R/3 customer master, R/3 installation database, Marketing Information System (MKIS), R/3 Sales and Distribution.

Berlin, DE

Guelph, On, CA

BIO’s core purpose is to create knowledge and develop applications to sustain natural systems on which all life depends.

Brussels, BE

Co-Chair and ChairmanNESSI is the European platform - dedicated to Software, Services and Data - with over 450 member organizations to unite the industry, startups, research and academia.

The MÜNCHNER KREIS is the leading independent platform providing orientation for decision makers in the digital world.

Cambridge, MA, US

MIT Technology Advisory board to help manufacturers with technology transformation

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, DE

Scpm

Design Thinking, D-School

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Leadership Development Program