Meet the SAPinsider Experts

Gain insights and connect with the world’s leading SAPinsider Experts, in the largest and fastest-growing SAP membership group.

Experts

  • Marc Auro
    Expert since 2023

    Throughout his career, he has successfully led and executed more than 25 SAP rollouts across all five continents. Additionally, he has spearheaded full life-cycle SAP projects, including Finance, Cash Management, Electronic Invoicing and Controlling implementations.
  • Joerg Boeke

    Joerg Boeke is an SAP BW / HANA solution architect and senior consultant working with BIAnalyst GmbH & Co.KG, with 24 years experience in SAP BW and 10 years experience in SAP HANA , having worked on it since SAP BW 1.2A and first HANA version until recent versions. He offers significant expertise in the SAP BW / HANA, analytical area, including design, data integration, data visualization, performance optimization, and the cleanup of existing SAP BW as well as HANA systems. He is the author of SAP BW 7.x Reporting – Visualize your data,SAP BI Analysis Office - a Practical Guide, SAP HANA SQL-Script
  • Shawn Brown
    Expert since 2023

    Shawn Brown is a technologists at SAP and an expert on the SAP Business Technology Platform – which simplifies SAP customer landscape and accelerates time to value. Shawn has served the needs of his customers in pre- and post-sales roles with the underlying goal of helping his customers differentiate themselves from their competition.
  • Noele Crooks

    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.
  • Satwik Das

    Satwik Das is an Associate Partner at TruQua, an IBM company. He has more than 17 years of experience leading and managing large-scale SAP analytics, financial planning, and finance transformation projects. He has extensive experience in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), and various reporting tools, and he has…
  • Shashidhar Garimella

    Shashidhar Garimella is an accomplished Principal Architect at SAP America Inc., known for his exceptional skills and expertise in the field of Enterprise Software Solutions. With a career spanning over a decade, Shashidhar has made significant contributions to the areas of SAP Analytics (BW, BW/4, DWC), Enterprise Information Management (EIM)- DI, SLT, SDI, Financial Planning(BPC,…
  • Suraj Gauli
    Expert since 2023

    Suraj Gauli is a Senior Manager in the PwC S4 HANA Cloud Platform and Intigration team. He has 15+ years of experience in advisory firm, retails, consumer products, transportation, automobile, semiconductor and healthcare IT services consulting with exposure to business project transformation management. Suraj has excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to…
  • Paul Grill
    Expert since 2024

    Paul Grill is the Co-Founder and CEO of InfoSol Inc. working with organizations around the world to help them implement Business Intelligence solutions to analyze and see beyond their data. Paul believes that Business Intelligence is not just about analyzing data to provide better insights but also about the human actions you take as a result of those insights. Paul has worked with Fortune 50 companies, small startups and everything in between to help them create transformational impact to their productivity and bottom line. Data holds amazing nuggets of precious information and that can be put to use to make a difference in people’s lives. Paul is a thought leader who is passionate about Business Intelligence and his passion is contagious. He lectures and has written extensively on the subject. In addition to being an avid runner, Tai Chi practitioner and kids soccer coach, if you really knew him, you would know that Paul is also passionate about Ancient Egyptology and gorillas.
  • Heiko Hecht
    Expert since 2021

    Heiko started working with SAP software in 1994. Heiko serves as a subject matter expert for Financial Accounting, System Upgrades/Transformations, Compliance, Process Discovery/Mining, ESG and Solution Documentation with SAP Solution Manager. Heiko is responsible for the collaboration with SAP and the roll out of SAP TRAC (Total ROI Analysis Campaign) and SAP STAR (System Transformation…
  • Ingo Hilgefort
    Expert since 2019

    Ingo is an experienced product manager working in the analytics & BI software industry for over 15 years now. He always has been focusing on cross-product solutions and focusing on the “big picture” scenarios by keeping the customer experience and requirements in mind. In addition to his experience in product management and engineering, Ingo has…