Meet the Authors

Brian Jacobs is the Global Go-to-Market Lead for the SAP Analytics Partnership and Cortex in Google Cloud’s Strategic Pursuits Business Unit. In this role, he oversees Google Cloud’s Pre-Sales, Sales & Channels and Customer Success. Brian joined Google Cloud in 2022 to help expand Google’s SAP practice in North America, focusing on supporting joint customers with SAP cloud migration. He and his team created a new partner centric motion, drove growth across migrations and delivered signature Analytics wins. Prior to joining Google Cloud, Brian was Vice President Large Enterprise Consulting at Navisite, where he was responsible for leading their sales & partner teams. He also spent 13 years at SAP, leading North America Sales Teams in ERP Cloud, Procurement Cloud and Industry solutions. Over the course of his 15+ year career in enterprise software, Brian has actively participated in over 10 multinational transformation programs for Large Enterprise customers in Retail/CPG, HCLS and Manufacturing.

Brian Lee is a customer-focused application developer/system administrator with extensive experience in regulatory document control, enterprise content management, and intranet support.

Brian has worked in the IT industry for thirty years, across a variety of technical positions including Technical Pre-Sales roles with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SUSE, where he has been for the last five years. Across that time he has been involved in a number of SAP projects, dealing with aspects such as sizing, infrastructure design and high availability architecture.

Brian works as a Director in the North America Cloud Architecture & Advisory Team. In his current role Brian serves as an advisor for SAP’s strategic and Large Enterprise Customers to migrate and transform from traditional on-prem architectures to SAP RISE native architectures on Azure, AWS and GCP.

Prior to joining SAP Brian spent 12 years as an SAP customer supporting ERP systems as a Basis Administrator and Enterprise Architect for large complex system landscapes.

He has participated, led, designed, and architected full SAP application lifecycles and deployments.

Brian leads the product management team at Conexiom, delivering the best blend of tech and user experience to invoice and order automation. With extensive experience in AI and document automation gained at Thomson Reuters as well as innovation prowess gained working with hundreds of startups and during the rise and fall of BlackBerry, Brian brings agility and domain knowledge across dozens of industries to a long-standing problem. From AI to UX, and big data to insights and analytics, Conexiom’s product team puts users and customer business outcomes at the forefront of everything they do.

Bryce Gantt is an Analytics and Technologies professional with proven abilities to design, support and improve business analytics and data management. He has 25 years of information technology experience with 17 of those years devoted to analytics. His strong educational background allows him to work well across organizational boundaries providing business and technical alignment, project leadership, solution architecture, and product implementation on a wide range of software technologies, platforms, methodologies, and best practices. Bryce has successfully demonstrated these capabilities to highlight business opportunities as well as improve operations with more than 160+ clients, several of which were long-term and/or recurring engagements. Currently, he is responsible for delivering Syskoplan Reply’s analytics solutions using technologies from SAP, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

Cameron is an experienced technical leader with over 25 years of IT experience across multiple industries. Currently, Cameron is the General Manager Technology Corporate, Liquor and Emerging Businesses at Coles, responsible for the development and support of applications required by the Enterprise to support areas such as Finance, Procurement, Safety, Risk, HR and Payroll as well having responsibility technology supporting the Liquor and Payments businesses.

Cameron Borley is a dynamic professional serving as the Head of Finance and Procurement Technology at Coles Group. With a proven track record of success in the field, he leads the strategic implementation of technology solutions to drive efficiency and optimize financial and procurement processes within the organization.

Over the past decade, Cameron has been at the forefront of leading significant transformative changes for businesses throughout Australia and New Zealand. As an experienced technology professional, he has held prominent technology leadership roles within large organizations. With a strong background in operations, he has built a successful career by delivering tangible business outcomes through the effective implementation of technology solutions. His extensive work experience in both operational and consulting capacities uniquely positions him to bridge the gap between business teams and technology teams in organizations of any size.

I am an Industrial Engineer and have a degree in Business Sciences, an MBA, and completed the SAP Consulting Master’s program in 2014. Since that year, I have been working at CUVIV Business Services SL. I started as a finance consultant, but shortly after, I joined the company’s management team as one of the new partners. Despite beginning as a finance consultant, my role has evolved into a more managerial and commercial profile, allowing me to explore various SAP modules.

In recent years, CUVIV Business Services SL has undergone significant growth, becoming a consultancy capable of providing support in most modules, with a specialization in international legal matters. We assist multinational companies with a presence in multiple countries, standing out as experts in localizations, making us the ideal partner for their expansion projects.

All of this has also allowed me to expand my knowledge in the SAP world since continuous learning is essential to providing better service to our clients. SAP has undergone technological evolution in recent years, and everyone working in its ecosystem has evolved with it.

Carson Synder is a Solutions Engineer at Prometheus Group, a global enterprise asset management (EAM) software provider. He works with clients in many industries on best practices for EAM and how they can implement them in their organizations. Before Prometheus Group, he was a Process Engineer for Pactiv Evergreen Inc., one of North America’s largest fresh food and beverage packaging manufacturers. He received his bachelor’s degree in science in paper science and engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. You can connect with him [linkedin.com] on LinkedIn.

Mr. Hilker has been working in the field of financial and management accounting for 20+ years in various roles including development, consulting and product management. He is an advocate of financial excellence, enterprise optimization and profitable growth and has presented and published on the topic of Finance and Management Accounting in numerous occasions. He has served as a global solution owner for SAP Central Finance with GTM responsibility across all markets, channels, and related products. His past and current professional affiliations ASUG, IMA, CAM-I, the Resource Consumption Accounting Institute (RCA-I), Society of Cost Management (SCM) and the International Controller Association (ICV).