Meet the Authors

Alison is a senior IT leader with over 20 years of experience across the manufacturing, technology, and utilities industries. Currently, Alison is the Head of Workplace Technology at CitiPower, Powercor & United Energy, accountable for enterprise applications, IT & OT infrastructure, end user compute and cyber security delivery as well as operational support for key field and designer technologies.

Allen Cutting is an experienced Senior Solutions Architect with over 20 years of expertise in SAP security, IT audit, and governance. Currently at Pathlock, Allen specializes in streamlining security processes for SAP environments, including S/4HANA migrations, role redesign, and compliance management. With certifications such as CISSP and CISA, and a strong background in business process standards, Allen has worked with leading organizations like DXC Technology and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, driving innovative security solutions. He holds an MBA in Finance from Virginia Tech and brings a client-focused approach to every challenge.

Alok Sahu is a Global Manufacturing Solution Lead at Fujitsu North America, Inc. In his role, Mr. Sahu is responsible for understanding the business needs of our global customers to help them transform and modernize their businesses through the use of digital technology and unique strategies to improve supply chain visibility, manufacturing transformation, and offerings modeled on Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory. He is a recognized Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer and industrial IoT practitioner. Through Alok’s deep experience, astute business planning, operational excellence and steadfast commitment to customers, he is a trusted leader in IT consulting, systems integration, and digital services.

Amin Hasan is a Senior Solutions Engineer at insightsoftware, specializing in Data Analytics and Data Integrations. Amin excels in developing custom technical solutions for data-driven processes and digital transformation projects. He helps companies achieve their business goals by addressing complex technical challenges and offering expert consultation on product best practices to customers and prospects.

Amit Garussi, Panaya’s Change Intelligence products leader with over 10 years of SAP domain professional expertise.

Amit is the Senior Manager at Orica heading the Enterprise systems. His accountabilities includes SAP solution landscape, applications that integrate with SAP and also the hyperautomation solutions such as RPA.

He has been with Orica for 8 years and in the SAP world for close to 20. Prior to Orica, he has worked on SAP projects for Mining and Manufacturing organisations globally.

Amit is passionate about helping finance leaders in transforming their finance function. A veteran in finance as a function coupled with finance technologies & innovations, his everyday job includes advising Finance leaders on Finance transformation, process improvements, financial planning redesign and everything which has finance in it. A finance soul intensely focused on outcomes! 

Ana believes developing ecosystems of true partnerships that ensure business priorities are aligned with that of customers in a constantly changing environment, utilising best of breed platforms and solutions tailored for customer benefit is the key to success. She aims to form alliances in order to achieve objectives that one business could not otherwise achieve alone.

Anastasios has more than 25 years of professional experience in the tech industry across Europe, USA, and Asia. SAP has been a big part of Anastasios’s career, from implementing SAP centric test automation/management solutions to playing a key role in one of Hong Kong’s first SAP S/4 HANA implementations. Anastasios is an insight-driven automation enthusiast with an obsession for customer success. Because ultimately. Technology is made by people, for people. 

​Anders is the leader of the Data Excellence team in Tech Collective’s SAP hub. The team focuses on implementation of Reporting & Advanced Analytics, BI data platforms, and SAP S/4HANA embedded analytics. The Data Excellence teams build solutions with different technologies like SAP Analytics and Microsoft Power Platform across data disciplines like data management, cloud data warehousing, Microsoft Azure data lake, and machine learning tools. Anders is an experienced BI architect as well as BI developer, and combines his knowledge of Reporting & Analytics technologies to create a pragmatic foundation for ESG related reporting

Andrea is a member of the Product Management team for SAP Cloud ALM for Operations. She is a Solution Expert and the product manager for Landscape Management and Setup Automation. Andrea joined SAP in 2008 after graduating with a master’s degree in computer science from Free University Berlin. She worked for Service & Support for 14 years, supporting customers with Application Operations for SAP Solution Manager, SAP Focused Run, and SAP Cloud ALM before joining the SAP Cloud ALM Product Management team.

Andreas has worked in the SAP ecosystem for the last twenty years. He has a consulting and pre-sales background and has extensive experience in low-code business process automation and optimization. In his role he supports customers in their ERP modernization journey.

Since 1986 Andreas Schmidt is part of Deutsche Telekom family. He worked for different departments within Deutsche Telekom but since 2000 he’s been working with SAP Solutions at T-Systems International GmbH.

Starting as ABAP developer 20 years ago he soon took over responsibility as development and offshore coordinator for different international projects. As a consultant and project manager for the SAP Solution Manager he worked several years in Europe and US. 2018 Andreas moved to the Portfolio Management SAP at T-Systems International GmbH as Offering Manager for the topic Digitalization with SAP.