Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Global Vice President, SAP Startup Focus (March 2014 – Present)
Vice President and Program Lead, SAP Startup Focus (October 2012 – March 2014)
Conceived, designed and launched initiative for SAP’s first programmatic engagement with the global startup community. This program is designed to identify, recruit, enable and help go to market big data
and real-time analytics startups to build on SAP HANA, SAP’s flagship in-memory data management system.
Recruited 1500+ startups into the program in two years. Delivered 100+ certified solutions. Enabled $20M in startup revenue in 2014 with 2015 pipeline forecast of $90M. Oversaw 120 startup outreach events in 70 cities. Startups in the program represent 55 countries and 22 different industries and lines of business.
The program was referred to by Hasso Plattner, SAP Co-Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, as “One of the best ideas at SAP of the past ten years” and by Holger Mueller from Constellation Research as “probably the largest ecosystem development that has happened in the high tech industry ever.”
Frequent speaker and panelist at startup, big data and industry focused events. Company executive and member of SAP’s Extended Global Leadership Team.
