SAPinsider Leadership Team
Jamie is a proven global business leader, with 25 years of market leading expertise in founding, leading turnarounds and ramping growth for numerous companies in domestic and international marketplaces. He is a serial entrepreneur, business builder of content driven, technology enabled businesses. Jamie has successfully transformed several companies into high growth recurring revenue firms with exceptional sales team cultures including Reputation Institute, JAZD Markets and Aberdeen Group. Jamie has extensive investment capital raising, M&A and exit transaction experience. He is frequently published and an active speaker on strategic global growth strategies for technology enabled companies.
Rizal (“Riz”) Ahmed serves as SAPinsider’s President and Chief Research Officer. In his 30 years with the company, he helped create and grow the SAP business from the beginning. Riz launched and managed SAPinsider’s first events and served as Editor in Chief SAPinsider’s flagship magazine. For the past several years he has worked to build the SAPinsider research organization, which publishes more than 30 reports per year. Additionally, he created the Technology Executive Forum, a subcommunity of leading CIOs’ and technology executives that run SAP. Riz leverages his passion and knowledge of content to invigorate and scale SAPinsider’s event business while expanding our overall research and content strategy.
Prior to SAPinsider, Riz was a Research Associate with Forrester Research and a reporter for the Manila Times in the Philippines. Riz earned dual degrees from Dartmouth College in History and Economics.
Shawn is an innovative sales and audience development management expert with over 12 years of professional experience in audience driven environments. He specializes in expanding digital and print product audiences, data analysis, audience profiling, email/direct mail marketing, networking, and social media marketing.
As the Chief Events Officer, Annette leads a global team delivering all aspects of event operations, event programming, festivalization, immersive experiences, sponsor & attendee success. She ensures all events, summits and roundtables are infused with community spirit and innovative end user driven research-based session programming.
David Southwick is a high energy, results-oriented leader with a track record for growing global sales organizations. David’s background includes leading multiple companies’ growth journeys for SAAS, PAAS, community-based content, and market research firms.
At SAPinsider, David leads the end-user membership and the SAP Partner vendor sales teams. Previous accomplishments include driving the growth of Forrester Research from a startup to a successful IPO to a 200M dominant brand. In addition, David was a key executive in leading the turnaround of the Aberdeen Group from 4M to 25M with more than 1,000 clients, resulting in a successful acquisition by Harte Hanks. David also headed international sales and marketing for the The Reptrak Company, growing revenues from $20M-$50M in less than 3 years.
As CEO, ERP Today & Chief Content Officer, Wellesley Information Services, Mark leads all global business, content and client strategy and execution for ERP Today, the leading multi-media platform for enterprise technology, working directly with the world's largest and most innovative technology companies to grow their top lines, reimagine their marketing playbook and captivate their customers. For the three brands of Wellesley Information Services: ERP Today, SAPinsider, and Mastering SAP, Mark leads all digital content strategy, programs and operations, driving market awareness, customer consideration, and stakeholder engagement for the world's most influential technology companies. He has spent the last 28 years in enterprise technology and services primarily in marketing, product and solution management, and business strategy leadership roles, with stints at Fortune 500 firms like Oracle, Qualcomm, Verizon Wireless and NCR as well as early- and mid-stage software shops. Mark has a passion for harnessing emerging technologies like IoT, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, AI and IT Service Management to drive lasting digital transformation. Mark has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, with concentrations in Marketing, Finance and Strategy. Mark is based in Atlanta, Georgia where he lives with his wife and three children
Stephen oversees editorial and product strategy for SAPinsider, Mastering SAP, and ERP Today. Stephen brings decades of experience in successfully transforming and shepherding media organizations into the 21st century through a digital first approach. He is a digital marketer, content strategist, and industry analyst whose passion is connecting brands with audiences.
