Irfan Khan is President of SAP HANA Database & Analytics business with global development and product management responsibilities across the entire SAP HANA Database and Analytics portfolio, this includes (SAP HANA, Data Intelligence, Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud) and innovation technologies.
Prior to this role, he was President of SAP’s Platform & Technologies unit where he led global sales and GTM for all SAP technology inclusive of; (SAP Cloud Platform, Database, data management and analytics) assets. Irfan was also responsible for the SAP managed cloud business (HEC) which supports 1800+ private cloud customer deployments spanning SAP and Hyperscalers datacenters.
Over the past decade, Irfan has held various senior executive positions across SAP Sales, GTM organizations and strategy functions, including Chief Technology Officer for SAP’s Global field organization.
Irfan joined SAP through the acquisition of Sybase Inc. where he was Senior Vice President & CTO. He spent almost two decades in various executive leadership positions across Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
Irfan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Professional awards include Recipient of the Infoworld CTO Top 25 award and is a published author of “New Data Imperative: Managing Real-Time Risk in Capital Markets”