Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Rex Ahlstrom

    As Syniti’s CTO, EVP Innovation & Growth, Rex calls on his 30+ years’ experience in the technology space to help shape the company’s product strategy. Having earned a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from John Hopkins University and Bachelor from Drexel University, Rex’s early career involved a number of senior leadership positions inside the…

  • Steve Birgfeld

    Highly accomplished Information Technology and Business Operations Leader with 25+ years of demonstrated achievements in delivering superior technological and operational improvements for multibillion-dollar companies. Results-driven professional known for performing technology/financial analysis for matching IT requirements to strategic business goals. Creative problem solver, decision maker, team mentor and communicator with a proven ability to develop tactical…

  • Steve Biskie
    Expert since 2021

    Steve Biskie, Principal at RSM, is an internationally-recognized expert on SAP audit, risk, security and compliance issues. He is the author of Auditing SAP S/4HANA (SAP Press, 2023) and Surviving an SAP Audit, (SAP Press, 2010), and was an expert reviewer for the book Security, Audit, and Control Features: SAP ERP (3rd & 4th Editions). Steve also teaches beginner through advanced SAP auditing courses, and has traveled to more than 18 countries to share his expertise. Steve was first introduced to SAP in the mid-90s while working as an external auditor for one of the Big 4. Since then he has been involved with SAP systems in a variety of roles, including as an internal auditor, consultant, implementation team member, compliance team lead, and SAP Steering Committee Chair. He has worked directly with SAP as part of the SAP Influence Council for the Management of Internal Controls (MIC) tool, the first iteration of what is now SAP Process Control. He has also served as an advisor to SAP on optimizing SAP Process Control, SAP Audit Management, and SAP Business Integrity Screening (formerly known as Fraud Management).

  • 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

  • Darriel Dawne
    Expert since 2023

    Award-winning executive and speaker with deep experience in digital transformations, operational excellence and building engagement. Known for simplifying the hard stuff on high-profile, business critical missions. A collaborative, service-oriented leader with a proven track record of taking strategy to execution. Passionate about making sustainability solutions accessible.

  • Vijay Garg

    Key Architect and Core Team member of team behind SAP CRM products in SAP Labs. Led the initiatives to build Mobile Application Studio, Application Repository Services and related tools for SAP CRM. Provided consulting for various SAP CRM initiatives as Platinum consultant of SAP America. Primary focus, SAP CRM integration with SAP ECC, SAP BW and Non-SAP systems. Chief Architect and Co-Founder of The Principal Consulting. Since 2004, leading various initiatives in SAP CX space, Mobile solutions and Analytics solutions. Recently, the primary focus is around SAP S4 enablement, SAP Master Data Governance, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Integrating SAP systems with DataBricks and Snowflake.

  • Damien Johnson

    Damien Johnson is currently serving as the Global Chief Architect for the RISE, Ecosystem organization, to ensure our customers benefit from a complementary architecture patterns and capabilities from SAP partners, for their cloud journey. His extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect helping SAP’s large strategic customers modernize has helped him design and co-author strategic cloud…

  • David Maloney

    Dave Maloney is the North American VP for BTP Everywhere and is focused on helping SAP customers gain as much out of their SAP investment through consistent leverage of the SAP Business Technology Platform. Accelerating Cloud adoption & renewals through BTP is Dave’s measure of success – including SAP Store, Solution Extension & Solution Integration…

  • Thomas Neudenberger

    Thomas Neudenberger started his SAP Security Journey in 2002 when he founded realtime North America in the World Trade Center in Tampa. realtime is a 35-year-old European software consulting firm and IT service provider who developed the first 2FA/MFA for SAP technology called bioLock in the early 2000. The mission was to establish an enforceable…

  • 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.