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Jason Yeung is the Vice President of SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP) Center of Excellence practice.  In this role, he leads a team of subject matter experts that work to evangelize, build demand, create innovative plays, and drive customer success for SAP’s portfolio of data and analytics solutions.  He is passionate about all things analytics and is constantly pushing the technology boundaries to build innovative value-based solutions to solve complex analytics challenges.  Prior to SAP, Mr. Yeung held various leadership roles sales, pre-sales, and product management – all in the analytics space.

Noele Crooks is the Director, Business Intelligence & CRM for the San Francisco 49ers, working within the Business Strategy and Analytics department. The Business Strategy & Analytics (BSA) department has a direct hand in developing strategy for almost all departments of the 49ers business, including ticket sales & service, corporate partnerships, community relations, digital & email marketing, retail, concessions, and stadium operations. In her role, Noele oversees the maintenance and expansion of the team’s data environment, the strategic development and execution of the team’s CRM system, developing automated reporting and data visualizations for the organization, as well as the lead on fan feedback initiatives including surveys and HappyOrNot. Specifically on game day, she runs the Executive Huddle powered by SAP, which is a real-time SAP Analytics Cloud data center in a suite used for 49ers games. The Executive Huddle’s interactive dashboards provide real-time updates on event-day metrics for parking, ticketing, concessions, retail, and fan feedback. Prior to joining the 49ers in 2018, Noele worked for the Atlanta Hawks for six seasons working primarily in CRM and business analytics.

Dedicated and passionate leader committed to delivering real customer value through innovative software solutions with a high priority on global customer relationships, and overall customer satisfaction across all aspects of the retail business.

Specialties:

• Understanding our customers' business strategy, goals and obstacles
  
• Aligning SAP's resources and expertise in business process and outcomes
  
• Applying strong retail industry knowledge with deep experience in the global retail space
  Past experience:
  
• Over 17 years at SAP with rich multi-segment Retail experience, including consulting, product management and solution management
  
• Led the global Supply Chain team and the SAP Fashion Management team as the Global Vice President of the SAP Retail Industry Business Unit. Responsible for rolling out SAP’s Retail Portfolio globally with focus on Sourcing & Buying, Customer Demand Driven Supply Chain and Vertical Fashion
  
• Directed transformational journeys with major retailers in China and APJ

Zak DeOssie is the Director of Business Development for LO3, where he is responsible for sourcing and securing new investment opportunities. Prior to joining LO3, Zak was a Vice President with Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, where his team was responsible for managing the assets of high-net-worth individuals, families and foundations representing $8bn AUM. Previously, Zak played professional football for 13 years with the New York Giants. He was elected team captain for 9 consecutive years, winning two Super Bowl and two Pro Bowl championships. During his time in the NFL, Zak served as a Vice President of the NFL Players Association, where he served on the Executive Committee, Financial Literacy Committee and Finance Committee. He serves on the NJ Governing Board of America Needs You, and is a long-time supporter of Newark Mentoring Movement, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Lupus Foundation of America, and the Special Olympics of New Jersey. Zak received a B.A. in Public and Private Sector Organizations from Brown University.

Andy Mulumba is the BTP CoE North America Director for ISBN. In his current role, his primary focus is strategically finding ways to aid customers to get excited about BTP and think of it as a differentiator to their existing landscape with the help of our SAP Experts or Partners.

Doug Adams is responsible for the Sales and Go-to-Market strategy to the Retail and other Industries in North America for Fujitsu’s Digital Transformation capabilities. This includes supply chain, engagement, and workplace services and solutions both built natively within Fujitsu and created in concert with partners, including SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce and ServiceNow.

Bernhard leads our solution consulting group for the Fujitsu Loss Prevention Platform. Bernhard has 25 + years of international experience in Data Warehouse and BI Analytical tools. Bernhard works with Fujitsu clients around the globe who are looking for solutions to problems specifically around loss prevention and waste avoidance.

Tressa Klossner joined Fujitsu in 2019 following a retail technology career with Blue Yonder and IBM, with a focus on ERP, POS, Merchandise Planning, e-Commerce and Business Intelligence Solution sales. Previously Tressa spent 10 years in ERP Application Support, QA, Project Management and Implementation Consulting Services roles. Before embarking on retail technology Tressa spent 10 years in Merchandising and Store Management with Macy's and Dayton Hudson where she held positions as Buyer, Divisional Merchandise Manager, Store Manager and Operations Manager.

At Fujitsu, Tressa is focused on supporting the sales team in sales cycles by applying client-specific requirements to Fujitsu software and service offerings and more importantly solving client’s most pressing problems with technology.

Yasu is Software Development Manager, Global Retail for Fujitsu.

Reporting into Fujitsu’s retail leadership in Japan, Yasu is responsible for co-ordinating, growing and promoting a global retail business across all our markets.

Yasu is responsible for Fujitsu’s global retail portfolio and roadmap, which includes prioritizing markets, building the case internally and with partners for new solution development, and executing specific growth initiatives.

In his past roles, he was responsible for the teams designing and developing our key global retail solutions and providing the strategic proposition management for Fujitsu’s Retail focused software solutions.

Yasu has worked in the software industry for 22 years and have been responsible for middleware development, quality assuarance, technical support, and technology / business partner development globally

Yasu graduated from Chuo University with a bachelor’s degree in International Ecnomics.

He is currently based in Tokyo, Japan.

Jeff Holker is responsible for the msg global solutions Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) business unit for the Americas.  For 35+ years, msg global solutions has been a systems integrator, software development partner and managed services provider for SAP focused on SAP solutions.  Holker has held various leadership positions within the office of finance in major corporations, and in his current role, has a passion for helping msg/SAP customers make more informed decisions and achieve their performance objectives utilizing SAP technology, including SAP PaPM.

Marcelo Berger is an Associate Principal for Mindset based in Denver, CO, with a background in SAP’s portfolio of analytics tools, including SAP BTP, embedded analytics in S/4, and BW. With over 19 years of SAP Analytics experience, Marcelo has been involved in multiple support engagements and full life cycle implementations across multi-billion dollar organizations, cross-cultural teams, and several countries. Marcelo is a frequent blogger in the SAP community and enjoys sharing his expertise and experience with colleagues and customers, enabling all around him to be successful. His most recent projects involve migrating legacy HANA customers to HANA Cloud, architecting and deploying S/4HANA embedded analytics solutions and real-time dashboards using SAP Analytics Cloud and Digital Boardroom

As NIMBL's Director of Development and Innovation, Nathan leads an organization of accomplished technology enthusiasts who are experts in Application Development, Automation, Integration, and Intelligent Technologies. Nathan's objective is to create value, enable competitive advantage, and resolve strategic business challenges agnostic of a company's digital core. His approach entails leveraging leading cloud technologies from SAP Business Technology Platform, applying current market trends, and developing high performing teams that share his passion for innovation and excellence. Nathan is a three-time SAP Press author with publications ranging from Application Lifecycle Management to SAP Business Technology Platform

As one of Solace's solutions architects, Himanshu is an expert in many areas of event-driven architecture, and specializes in the design of systems that capture, store and analyze market data in the capital markets and financial services sectors. This expertise and specialization is based on years of experience working at both buy- and sell-side firms as a tick data developer where he worked with popular time series databases kdb+ and OneTick to store and analyze real-time and historical financial market data across asset classes.

Himanshu holds a bachelors of science degree in electrical engineering from City College at City University of New York. When he's not designing real-time market data systems, he enjoys watching movies, writing, investing and tinkering with the latest technologies.

For more than 25 years, Friedbert has been working for technology companies in development, marketing, partnership, business development and pre-sales and sales roles. He spent 15 Years thereof at SAP Switzerland, since 2018 he is at SAP SE (Walldorf) in GoToMarket and responsible for the Apple partnership in the regions MEE - EMEA.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/friedberteberle/

Toros Aledjian is a Senior Director of Global SAP Business Technology Platform Go to Market with responsibilities for Customer Experience, Business Development and Go to Market initiatives.

With over 22 years at SAP, Toros has advocated and promoted all aspects of Development, Product Management and Customer engagement on a variety of projects from CRM to UX to SAP BTP.

He brings over 29 years of technical industry experience in government and commercial software.   His engagement in and promotion of partnering and instrumental Business Development brings a unique insight for potential business growth, through Customer engagement that fosters a productive and efficient win – win environment.

Tricia Johnson is part of the Solution Management for Enterprise Integration team at SAP. Her career spans more than 20 years of data quality, data integration and integration technology at SAP.  When not working, she enjoys spending time with her two kids, exploring outdoors or new cuisine as well as reading and shopping.

Twitter: @TriciaLJohns

Linked-In: triciajohnson

Batool Hussain leads Sustainability Services Go To Market for the Americas with a focus on Business Technology Platform (BTP). In her role, she leads strategic discussion with clients to define and achieve their sustainability goals. By leveraging the power of BTP, Batool collaborates with partners to helps customers create business value and drive transformational change.

Batool works with teams across SAP’s ecosystem to align resources and expertise to deliver tangible results.  She has 15+ years of global management and consultancy experience having worked across UK, Europe, and the U.S.

Prior to SAP, Batool worked in the financial industry; leading global transformations, innovation programs and was Chief of Staff to the Americas COO and CFO at a large global investment bank.

Matthew Whigham is a Technical Architect for Mindset based in San Antonio, TX, with a background in SAP Full-Stack Development, including SAP BTP, S/4, and ECC Development. With over 9 years of SAP Development experience, Matthew has been involved in several engagements including full life-cycle implementations, UX Strategy/Delivery, and custom product services. His most recent projects involve integrating BTP solutions with existing on-premise systems and transforming everyday tasks to a better UX with SAP BTP.

Samra Sulaiman is a Senior Directory in the SAP North America Business Technology Platform (BTP) Center of Excellence, collaborating with customers on data management and data strategy topics.  Prior to joining SAP, she was an independent consultant, providing advisory and implementation services to a diverse roster of financial services and other commercial clients focused on data integration, data governance, and master data management.  Samra led Global Delivery for Strevus, a SaaS company focused on Regulatory Compliance in Financial Services. Prior to that, she led the Enterprise Data Management program at Fannie.  Her background includes extensive experience in systems integration, data architecture, system development, and operations. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/samra-s-1b245a2/