Super excited to share that I will be joining SAP as Global Head of Market Strategy. A function within the product and engineering board area, our team’s charter will be to help connect how SAP’s global product strategy is set up to solve the big transformative opportunities as well as challenges that our customers face as they look to build meaningful experiences and connections with their customers and employees, and with society.
Transformation as a topic is something I’ve been immersed in for a long time and so I’m excited about the role and the timing for three main reasons.
The market: First, every industry is going through a transformation in some form or another, but the world needs fresh thinking on how to employ technology more than ever at this time; to sustain itself for now but to also thrive for decades to come. On the other side of these challenging times, many industries will have changed how they manufacture, source and deliver products and how they become more meaningful to their stakeholders. And they are looking for the right technology and thought partners to collaborate with, to get there.
The ability to make impact: Second, to embrace this challenge, few technology vendors have the reach or the technology breadth and domain heft as SAP does, to help our customers make an impact at scale.
The people and sense of purpose: Finally, I’ve been privileged to know the current leadership team from my last tour of duty at Successfactors/SAP, and I left the company with an incredibly strong feeling of gratitude for the relationships I made across the globe. Thomas Saueressig, Executive Board Member, and I got to know each other over the years and began discussing a possible comeback. Through subsequent conversations with leaders such as Jen Morgan and Chief Product Officer Abdul Razack, I felt a genuine sense of renewed purpose, and the sheer energy and drive to make a demonstrable impact on the market and on society was evident.
For those of you who know me, this role is different in some ways as I’ve been an operator for most of my professional life. Yet this role has phenomenal breadth as it spans SAPs significantly broad portfolio of products. As I looked at a number of opportunities, I got more conviction about what I was looking to accomplish in my next role, and the ability to have an impact at scale emerged as priority #1. Given the task at hand for every business over the coming years, combined with SAP’s reach and bench strength, this innately felt like the most unique and ambitious choice to make a dent.
I couldn’t be more fired up!
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