Personnel news March 2017
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Daniel Holz to be SAP's new head of Germany
Daniel Holz has been Managing Director of SAP Germany since January 1, 2017, and in this role is responsible for the German business. He succeeds Hartmut Thomsen, who is assuming the role of Chief Operating Officer of the Central and Eastern Europe (MEE) region for the Group.
Holz has been with SAP since 2008 and has headed the Discrete Industries & Automotive division in the country as a member of the Executive Board Germany since 2012.
He successfully led this important sector for SAP with a focus on the realignment towards hybrid cloud and on-premise architectures.
Previously, Holz held international management positions in SAP's EMEA sales organization for several years. Among other things, he was Managing Director of the SAP subsidiary in Turkey, Chief Operating Officer for the EMEA South region and Head of Sales for SAP in Moscow.
"I am pleased that with Daniel Holz we have been able to gain such an experienced manager for the important German market"
says Stefan Höchbauer, President of the Central and Eastern Europe (MEE) region.
"I am convinced that he will successfully continue the outstanding work of Hartmut Thomsen, who has provided important impetus for the digital transformation of customers in Germany."
Before joining SAP, Holz, who holds a doctorate in business administration, held management positions at Siemens Nixdorf, Oracle and IBM. Holz studied at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management, Boston.
SAP Appoints Regional President for EMEA North
Angela Mazza has been appointed regional president of SAP's EMEA North region. In this role, she will be responsible for growth in the Platform, Applications, and Business Networks business areas and will manage the business in the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and the Baltic States.
As Chief Operating Officer of the Central and Eastern Europe (MEE) region, Mazza previously drove digital transformation for customers and paved the way for SAP's transformation into the leading cloud company in the region.
In her new role as Regional President of the EMEA North region, she replaces Darren Roos, who is now Global President responsible for S/4 Hana Public Cloud.
Following the announcement of fiscal 2016 results on January 24, it is now clear how Mazza will focus in 2017 for the EMEA North region.
"It's important for companies of all sizes to have a concrete picture of how they can benefit from digitization and cloud computing to achieve rapid growth"
Mazza affirmed. She has been with SAP for 13 years. She has held a number of senior positions in various locations. These included Vice President Large Enterprises, Vice President Strategic Customer Network and Global Vice President Line of Business HR. She is also a member of SAP's Extended Global Leadership Team and the Swiss Institute for Boards of Directors.
WMD expands management
In the course of the change of name of the WMD Group (see page 64), the team of managing directors was also expanded in order to cope with the increasing strategic tasks.
Thomas Radestock, already a member of the Management Board since 2012, is appointed as the new Managing Director responsible for Sales.
He takes over this area from Andreas Karge and thus complements the current top management of the WMD Group. Andreas Karge continues to be responsible for marketing, human resources and the WMD subsidiaries.
Albrecht Lüdemann remains responsible for Finance and Legal Affairs and Matthias Lemenkühler, as Managing Director, is in charge of Development, Technology and Projects responsible for the USA subsidiary xSuite Solutions.
Software AG brings in digitization experts from SAP
Stefan Sigg becomes the new Chief Research & Development Officer and joins Software AG's Executive Board as its fifth member.
With this reinforcement, the Group is focusing on the further development of new technological innovations in the rapidly growing market for new digital solutions.
Sigg studied mathematics in Bonn and received his doctorate there in 1994. He then started his professional career in product development at SAP.
Most recently, Sigg was Senior Vice President and Head of SAP Analytics. At Software AG, he will primarily develop the Group's product portfolio in the areas of IoT, real-time analytics, process management, API management and data integration.
Sigg will also chair the Global Portfolio Innovation Steering Team.
Jim Snabe to become Siemens Supervisory Board Chairman in 2018
The Nomination Committee of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG has recommended former SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe for the office of Supervisory Board Chairman.
At its meeting on Tuesday, the Supervisory Board of Siemens took note of this with approval and consensus.
The scheduled elections to the Siemens Supervisory Board will take place at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on January 31, 2018.
At the subsequent constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board, Snabe is then to be elected Chairman. He intends to reduce the number of his mandates until the Annual Shareholders' Meeting so that he can devote the time required to chair the Supervisory Board at Siemens.
To avoid conflicts of interest, Snabe is also to resign from his seat on the Supervisory Board of SAP.
New Managing Director of SAP Austria
Since January 1, Rudi Richter has been responsible for the operational business in Austria, including sales, services and support, as well as for the strategic planning and orientation of SAP Austria.
Previously, he was Senior Vice President Sales Customer Engagement and Commerce at Hybris in Munich, Germany, where he and his team successfully served the EMEA region.
Prior to that, he was head of sales for sustainable solutions and was responsible for key industries and customers in the public sector, finance, and retail. Before joining SAP, he worked for more than ten years at the technology group HP in various international roles.
Richter succeeds Klaus Sickinger, who is now COO for the CEE region at SAP.
SAP Chief Technology Officer Bernd Leukert has been appointed to the Bertelsmann Supervisory Board. He already sits on the Supervisory Board of the Research Center for AI, the Market Strategy Board of the International Electrotechnical Commission, and the German government's Steering Committee for I 4.0.
Since the beginning of the year, Steffen Lorscheider has been managing partner of Camos Software und Beratung. He is responsible for the areas of development and technical product management and thus succeeds founding partner Hans-Jürgen Lehnert.
T-Systems Austria restructures its management team, bringing on board Peter Lenz from Austrian Railways and Thomas Arnoldner from Alcatel-Lucent Austria. Franz Grohs remains Chairman of the Management Board. Lenz becomes the new Vice President Delivery and Arnoldner the new Vice President Sales & Service.
Gregory Strasser is the new Sales Director Suisse Romande (Western Switzerland). In this role, he reports to Jean-Philippe Maurrasse, who as Head of Sales is also a member of the Executive Board of SAP Switzerland. He succeeds Frédéric Alran, who is now responsible for the French-speaking regions of Africa.
Stephanie Freise is moving from Microsoft to SAP Switzerland as Head of Communications. A native of Germany, she studied European Business Management at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. From 2010, she worked for Microsoft Switzerland. Most recently, she headed the Business Communications and PR department there.
Oliver Ciupke has been appointed as the second member of the Executive Board of Oxid eSales. As COO, the long-standing Head of Professional Services and Operations as well as a doctor of computer science is to drive the e-commerce platform manufacturer's business forward in the future together with CEO Roland Fesenmayr.
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