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.

  • 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…

  • Rob Jackson

    As a Principal Solution Architect, Rob supports the sales process across North America with his product and process expertise for our accounts payable products and the Serrala data and document management solutions.  In his role, he is responsible for developing tailored demonstrations, conducting business cases, and proof of concepts for Serrala customers.

  • Akash Kumar

    Akash Kumar is an author, speaker, and techie for emerging and disruptive technology topics with a focus on Intelligent Enterprise. He is currently working as Solution Architect with HCL and supporting new products, services, and offerings on the Industry Cloud. He has supported multiple customers in digital transformation by creating business use cases and technology roadmaps, migrating from old to new technology such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Analytics, implementing new business model on artificial intelligence/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, and enabling business process simplification with Celonis and task automation with robotic process automation. He is the author of PlanViz: Improving SAP HANA Performance (SAP Press) and Building and Extending SAP HANA Live Views (SAP Press). He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and holds numerous certifications, including Scrum Master, Agile, IoT, Devops, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Activate, and SAP S/4HANA.

  • Shashank Paritala
    Expert since 2024

    Shashank Paritala - Practice Manager for Analytics and Data Monetization at Avvale, bringing extensive experience in the SAP Analytics Stack, including BW, Datasphere, and SAC, along with broad functional knowledge across various industries.

  • Nick Parkin

    In 2001, Nick Parkin established Proceed Group in response to a growing need identified by SAP UK. Their customers were grappling with rapidly increasing data volumes, which posed significant challenges. Proceed Group was created to provide expert data archiving solutions for these clients. As word of the company’s success spread, additional SAP regions began seeking…