Muhammad Alam is an incoming Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE for SAP Product Engineering. He is currently President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network (ISBN) Product Engineering and General Manager for SAP Business Network, where he is charged with executing on SAP’s future-forward strategy.

In his role as a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Muhammad will have responsibility company-wide for all business software applications, including business functions ranging from product strategy and management to development and innovation.

As President and Chief Product Officer for ISBN, Muhammad is responsible for procurement, travel and expense, and contingent workforce product engineering, as well as the business network, which allows customers to connect with millions of trading partners in near real-time. His organizations work together with ISBN’s Marketing & Solutions and Customer Success teams, focused on bringing market-leading cloud solutions to customers worldwide so they can realize greater visibility across enterprise spend and manage supply chain disruption.

Previously, Muhammad was Corporate Vice President, Dynamics 365 at Microsoft, where he led product management and engineering for all operations-focused applications in the portfolio. He has also held roles at Capgemini and Ernst & Young LLP, focused on supply chain management.

Muhammad, a Certified Public Accountant, earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he currently resides. 

Thomas Saueressig is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He heads the Customer Services & Delivery Board area with global responsibility for long-term customer value in the cloud. This includes all business areas in customer services, comprising professional services, premium engagements, customer innovation services, and customer support. In addition, Saueressig leads cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, cloud lifecycle management, and private cloud delivery for SAP’s global customer base.

The goal of the Customer Services & Delivery organization is to further increase customer satisfaction by ensuring that customers get the best services, tools, and support to accelerate their cloud transformation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) through the immense value of the integrated SAP portfolio. SAP helps customers to drive their business transformation effectively while maximizing the benefits of the cloud and AI.

Previously, as a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE, Saueressig led the SAP Product Engineering Board area and was responsible for the company’s entire application portfolio. This also included cloud offerings, the global SAP Labs Network, the SAP Enterprise Adoption organization, and development priorities. These priorities encompassed innovation, AI, integration, design and user experience, cloud operational excellence, and the overall quality and security of SAP software products.

Before being appointed the head of SAP Product Engineering, Saueressig was chief information officer (CIO) and global head of IT Services at SAP. As CIO, he was responsible for SAP’s IT strategy and execution following a cloud-first approach. Under his leadership, the IT organization pioneered new business models and significantly advanced SAP’s own cloud transformation. Saueressig started his career at SAP in consulting in 2004 before moving on to spend time abroad and holding various management positions with growing responsibility across SAP.

Saueressig has a degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim (Germany) and a joint executive MBA from ESSEC Business School (France) and Mannheim Business School (Germany).

Since April 2022, Saueressig has been a member of the Board of Directors of Nokia.

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Michael leads the SAP BTP Foundation unit in SAP’s Technology & Innovation board area, operationalizing the Chief Technology Officer function for SAP. Michael’s team prioritizes security, reliability, and next-generation user experience for SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) as the centerpiece of SAP’s product strategy. SAP BTP is the solid technical foundation for our customers’ success with SAP solutions and the enabler for the development of Generative AI powered applications across the SAP ecosystem.

Michael’s core leadership values are trust, transparency, and perseverance. His authentic and pragmatic leadership style inspires others to bring SAP’s vision to life. Michael holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a diploma in media computer science from Technische Universität Dresden. Michael has been at SAP since 2006, when he started as a Research Associate. Since then, he has held various technical leadership roles from Development Manager to Senior Vice President & Managing Director of SAP Labs Dresden.

Dr. Philipp Herzig is Chief AI Officer at SAP.

In his role, Herzig oversees SAP’s Business AI efforts from strategy to execution to deliver exciting customer outcomes. Together with his team, he delivers state-of-the art AI services, tools, and technologies, and helps to embed AI across SAP’s entire application and platform portfolio.

Before being appointed to his current role, Herzig was globally responsible for bringing SAP’s product portfolio together in one seamlessly integrated experience for customers, spanning from integration efforts to user experience, and cross-product innovations.

Herzig started his career at SAP in 2009. Since then, he has held various roles as software engineer, architect, product owner and engineering leader at SAP's Innovation Center Potsdam. He led teams in multiple areas across SAP’s portfolio including Real Estate, SAP CPQ, and SAP’s Health applications. In these roles, Herzig focused on cloud-native application engineering, distributed systems, continuous integration and delivery, as well as fostering a culture of high engineering excellence.

Herzig is based in Potsdam, Germany, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Technische Universität Dresden. Dr. Philipp Herzig Chief AI Officer SAP SE

Jan leads Cloud ERP, which encompasses SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s flagship product for ERP, finance, and supply chain.

In this role he has global responsibility for the development, delivery, and product management of SAP S/4HANA, as well as the Digital Supply Chain portfolio. With SAP S/4HANA, customers have the choice to balance standardization with customization when running their mission critical processes with an intelligent, sustainable ERP system. Jan is also a member of the SAP Engineering Senior Leadership Team.

Prior to his current role, Jan had worked in SAP’s IT Organization as Head of Enterprise Architecture and later as Head of IT Business Services, since 2016. He reported to SAP’s global CIO, representing SAP IT internally and externally. In this role he was responsible for implementing a significant portion of SAP’s product portfolio. He drove SAP IT’s agile transformation and in this way his organization was essential in supporting SAP to become an Intelligent Enterprise.

He moved to the US in 2008 to lead SAP’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Practice for North America Consulting. He then worked in the Office of the CEO as part of SAP’s Corporate Strategy Group on Portfolio Strategy and in the Office of the CTO before joining the North America Field Organization in various business development roles as Value and Enterprise Architect

Peter Maier is SVP, Strategic Customer Engagements. In his role, Peter works closely with the Board and ensures that strategic customer engagements result in tangible business outcomes for his customers and in long-term partnerships with SAP.

Peter is passionately driving innovation that makes his customers more successful and he frequently shares his strategy and insights with customers, SAP partners, press, and analysts. He is regularly invited to deliver keynote speeches and to moderate panel discussions. In strategy meetings he advises leading customers how to become intelligent, sustainable, and resilient enterprises, and how to transition enterprise computing to the cloud while unlocking the potential of Business AI for measurable business value.

Peter joined SAP in 1991 as a consultant for the chemical industry. Over the years, Peter has expanded his responsibilities by running SAP’s industry organization and driving strategic corporate programs. He is a valued expert for trends, challenges and best practices across many industries and has earned the trust of strategic customers as an executive sponsor and of diverse young talent as a mentor and coach.

As Head of Premium Engagement & Advisory for SAP's Executive Board Customer Services & Delivery, Anja Schneider is responsible for empowering SAP’s top customers to master continuous transformation and innovation through tailored premium services, networked expertise of global COEs, and architectural guidance.

Irfan Khan is an experienced executive in the technology industry, with a focus on engineering, marketing, and sales. Currently serving as President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data & Analytics, he is responsible for the global development and management of SAP's data and analytics products. Under his leadership, SAP's data & analytics portfolio has grown significantly and become a recognized leader in the industry.

Prior to his current role, Irfan was the President of SAP's Platform & Technologies unit, where he led global sales and go-to-market strategies for all of SAP's technology offerings. He also oversaw the SAP managed cloud business, supporting over 1,800 private cloud customer deployments across SAP and Hyperscalers datacenters.

Irfan has held various senior executive positions at SAP, including Chief Technology Officer for SAP's global field organization. He initially joined SAP through the acquisition of Sybase Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer.

In addition to his role at SAP, Irfan serves as a Senior Adviser to Warburg Pincus, a global growth investor, where he identifies investment opportunities in the technology industry to drive innovation and business development.

Irfan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has received professional awards for his contributions to the technology sector, including the Infoworld CTO Top 25 Award. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and is the author of the book "New Data Imperative: Managing Real-Time Risk in Capital Markets" (2009).

Gina Vargiu-Breuer is SAP’s Chief People Officer and Labor Director, as well as a Member of the Executive Board. In her role, she leads the People & Culture organization and owns SAP’s global People Agenda.

Gina Vargiu-Breuer brings over 20 years of experience in international human resources to SAP.  Before joining SAP, she served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Siemens Energy for more than four years. During this time, she spearheaded the company’s spin-off from Siemens AG and successfully drove the transformation for 94,000 employees. Her work focused on building the entire HR value chain and implementing a new operating model that seamlessly integrated business processes with HR. Her transformative efforts significantly shaped Siemens Energy’s working environment and corporate culture.

Prior to this, Gina Vargiu-Breuer held various positions at Siemens AG, including Senior Vice President for Global HR in the Gas & Power, Service & Digital division. During this time, she gained both technical expertise and extensive experience in global business management, international talent development, and organizational transformation.

Gina Vargiu-Breuer holds a master’s degree in Economic Psychology from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

Simone Engelhardt is Senior Vice President and Head of Customer Engagement Support in SAP’s Cloud Success Services area. Her organization actively contributes to Customer Lifetime Value by supporting and engaging with customer-facing colleagues and customers directly, with the goal to improve customer health, satisfaction, and to foster SAP customers’ success in the cloud. In her current role, Simone is also responsible for the “Power Your Success” experience of the SAP Services and Support Portfolio.

During her 35 years tenure at SAP, Simone has worked in various leadership roles. She joined SAP in 1988 as a software developer and became a member of the core development team for SAP’s System R/3 for enterprise logistics. She then served as an Executive Board Assistant to Dietmar Hopp, Chairman of the SAP Executive Board, and later to Gerhard Oswald, member of the SAP Executive Board. In 2002, she was appointed Vice President Business Development of SAP Hosting AG. Later on, she joined Global IT Infrastructure Services (IT-IS) as Global Vice President Operations and became a major contributor to the “SAP runs SAP” program, and the implementation of a Continuous Improvement System within IT-IS. From 2013 to 2015, she was Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Scale Quality & Support board area. After that, she became Senior Vice President and Head of Events & Communication for the Board area Digital Business Services (DBS).