Personnel announcements September 2020
SAP loses Germany chief
Daniel Holz, who has headed SAP's German business since the beginning of 2017, is moving to Google, where he is to head the Internet group's cloud business in Europe from October 2020. The reason for his departure is unclear, it was only said that he was leaving SAP "at his own request".
The 50-year-old had been employed at Europe's largest software company for around a decade. With a doctorate in economics, he had previously worked at IBM and Oracle, among others. Daniel Holz will be succeeded by Alexander Kläger, who will take over responsibility for the sales organization in the country as Managing Director of SAP Germany.
Alex Kläger has been with SAP in various leadership roles since 2012. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer and Head of Cloud for the Central and Eastern Europe (MEE) region. In this role, he was responsible for the structural setup, management of the internal organization, optimization of business-relevant processes and the entire cloud business in MEE.
Prior to that, he was a member of the management team at SAP Germany for six years, where he was responsible for sales in the process, consumer goods and services industries. After studying technical business administration at the University of Applied Sciences in Reutlingen, Kläger began his career at Volkswagen in Mexico.
"Alex Kläger is intimately familiar with the business and our customers in Germany"says Hartmut Thomsen, President of the MEE Region.
"I am convinced that he will successfully continue the work of Daniel Holz."
Cisco top manager moves to SAP
Anuj Kapur, former chief strategy officer at Cisco, has been appointed president of corporate development and strategy at SAP. Kapur is expected to help identify trends early and deliver even greater value to customers.
Kapur is also responsible for the cross-divisional implementation of SAP's growth strategy. He reports to SAP CEO Christian Klein. He will remain based in Silicon Valley.
"Such responsibility requires a creative thinker and a competent leader who has a comprehensive understanding of global and local requirements." Klein said.
"In Anuj, we have found that person. Staying the course in today's volatile environment can be challenging. More than ever, we therefore owe our customers, partners, employees and shareholders a clear strategy that points the way forward.
As with our solutions, a holistic strategy is required that brings together and reflects SAP and the respective goals. It must also bridge the gap between today and tomorrow, set a clear vision and define how to achieve it."
Kapur grew up in India, Kenya and Canada and now lives in San Francisco. He held various roles at Cisco driving strategy and business development before being named the company's chief strategy officer. Kapur holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo.
New Country Manager at NetApp Austria
Peter Hermann has been appointed Country Manager in Austria by NetApp. Hermann can look back on almost 20 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He worked for Microsoft for many years in a wide variety of sales positions.
There, he was most recently Director Public Sector and then Enterprise Partner Group Lead. His most recent position was at VMware, where he was Lead for the Public Sector for four years.
Peter Hermann takes a positive view of the new challenges: "I am looking forward to my new tasks as Country Manager Austria with great pleasure. NetApp is currently the market leader in Austria in various business areas. I look forward to continuing on this path and consolidating NetApp's position in the market."
His predecessor Peter Hanke, now Senior Director in Germany, is spreading roses to his successor: "As a long-standing sales expert, Peter Hermann has gathered an enormous wealth of experience, which predestines him for the position of Country Manager in Austria.
Peter Hermann has always distinguished himself as a team player and was highly regarded by his colleagues and employees. I am glad that we were able to recruit him for this position."
Datavard Appoints SAP Executive to Supervisory Board
Markus Schwarz was elected to the Supervisory Board of the software and consulting company Datavard.
"We are very pleased to have Markus Schwarz join us as an SAP expert with invaluable know-how and years of international management experience for the company. Together with the Executive Board, he will support Datavard's strategic transformation."explains Stefan Elßer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
CEO Gregor Stöckler adds: "I have known and held Markus Schwarz in high regard since our time together at SAP. All the more reason for me to look forward to working closely with him in the future."
Markus Schwarz was appointed Professor of Foreign Trade and Digital Globalization Strategies at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in the summer semester of 2020. Previously, he held various management positions at SAP for 26 years.
Most recently, as Chief Customer Officer, he was responsible for existing customers worldwide and was a member of SAP's senior executive team. He studied business administration with a focus on marketing and industrial management in Germany and the U.S. and then earned a part-time doctorate at the University of Mannheim.
Philipp Rösler becomes new Brainloop supervisory board member
Philipp Rösler, former Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is appointed to Brainloop's Supervisory Board. Brainloop, a premium provider of highly secure cloud solutions for board communication and the exchange of highly confidential documents, is expanding its expertise in the areas of data protection and modern governance in the German-speaking market with this addition to the board.
Rösler's international experience is a great asset for Brainloop. After serving as Federal Minister of Health (2009-2011) and Federal Minister of Economics and Technology as well as Vice Chancellor (2011-2013), Rösler's first stop after active politics brought him to Geneva in 2014, initially as Managing Director and Board Member at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
He then became CEO of a non-profit organization focused on education and health in New York, which he led until early 2019. Since then, he has focused on his international mandates. Rösler has extensive expertise in the context of his current activities in several companies and foundations.
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