People in December 2021 / January 2022

SAS Germany in upheaval

Helene Lengler takes over the leadership of the German organization of SAS as Managing Director. Lengler is distinguished by many years of experience in the management and sales of IT companies. After starting her career at Digital Equipment, she worked for nearly 20 years in various management positions at Oracle before moving into management at InterSystems. Lengler studied at Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg, the University of New Mexico and AKAD University.

She replaces Annette Green, who will work with Helene Lengler until the end of the year to ensure a seamless transition. Concurrent with this leadership change, SAS is decoupling the organizations of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The offices in Vienna and Zurich will continue to operate as separate organizations and will be integrated internally into new regional structures in each case.

"We are in a major transformation phase in which all industries are digitalizing. I am very happy to be able to help accompany this change on board the market leader for analytics and AI - because these technologies are the key to the digital economy. But first, I'm very excited to get to know the customers, partners and the entire team at SAS Germany!"says Helene Lengler. Bert Boers, Senior Vice President South West and East Europe at SAS, adds: "Annette Green has implemented key strategic measures in recent years that her successor can now build on."