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

  • Javaid Awan

    Javaid Awan has deep process, configuration, and technical knowledge of finance and supply chain with over 25 years of experience in business and IT roles. Awan has held several senior positions as a Financial Controller, CIO, Head of Shared Services, Head of Business Transformation, Head of DevOps, and has implemented both SAP and non-SAP solutions…
  • Narasimha Prasad Bhat
    Expert since 2023

    Narasimha Prasad Bhat is a highly regarded SAP expert, leveraging more than 15 years of experience in SAP IT, coupled with a rich 15-year background in the Oil & Gas business domain. His comprehensive understanding of production planning, procurement, maintenance, and safety, a result of his unique blend of business and IT roles, has made…
  • Varun Bhatt

    Varun is a seasoned Technology Executive with 23 years of business and SAP technology transformation leadership across consulting advisory, enterprise, and solution architecture disciplines. Varun is a highly versatile professional with strategic and operational skills in technology and commercial disciplines and has proven success in architecting solutions to support global business transformation initiatives across the…
  • Craig L. Brown, Sr.
    Expert since 2022

    As the Principal of one of a few US based certified SAP ALM Hub Partner and Tricentis TOSCA Certified Implementation Partner, Craig Brown leads the Transformation Architect team at Xceleon. A proven leader and an invaluable resource in Information Technology, government, public, and private entities utilize his management skills and keen ability to identify technology-based value opportunities. His 33-year career started in the United States Army as a highly decorated enlisted soldier who globally managed troops to deliver classified mission-critical communications during both peace and wartime efforts. After his honorable service was complete, he joined the private sector, where he held positions that utilized his vast knowledge in technology, management, and process design & application development. His management skills make him a natural leader when guiding resources from multiple business units, as he incorporates processes across various platforms. As a volunteer, Craig has served with SAP's ASUG Solution Manager Special Interest Group (SIG) as the Solution Manager Community Facilitator, focusing on the SAP Solution Manager influence counsel for nine years. In addition to educating the SAP Community about SAP Solution Manager's latest and greatest features and benefits, he also teaches certified application lifecycle management tools tightly integrated with SAP Solution Manager to facilitate value-driven projects and solutions. Craig is also the ASUG IT Operations Alliance Community's Task Force Lead and an SAP Insider Expert focused on application lifecycle management. SAP chose Craig to speak at the 40TH annual SAP Max Attention Summit in Waldorf, Germany, where he outlined the benefits of deploying a fully integrated ITSM system through Solution Manager and the value it enabled for his employer. Craig Brown is a visionary leader in the IT industry and a proven asset to any organization he serves, leveraging his vast knowledge and expertise to drive success.
  • Indrajit Roy Chowdhury
    Expert since 2023

    Indrajit is a SCM solution architect and technology leader helping organization's achieve digital transformation using SAP suite of products. Comprehensive 19 years’ experience in leading large-scale global business transformation projects in the supply chain management area using SAP S/4 HANA and Ariba. Held various leadership position as enterprise architect, supply chain lead, source to pay track lead, spearheading multiple high visibility projects and initiatives highlighting strong project management, client management, and technical and functional business process knowledge. Change agent & problem solver with a passion for technology, skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing, developing, implementing solutions & collaborating closely with business leaders & senior level executives in the parent and customer organization. Customer/Stakeholder obsession to resolve pain points, loves storytelling to influence and build consensus. Provide thought leadership by publishing articles and speaking engagements etc.
  • Guy Couillard
    Expert since 2022

    As CEO of Baton Simulations, Guy Couillard has helped public and private organizations, software vendors and systems integrators improve the way they position and deploy SAP software. He developed leading edge seminars and reusable methodologies covering the entire enterprise system lifecycle. For more than 20 years, he has been sharing his expertise in technology adoption, risk and knowledge management. In 2015 he became CEO of Baton Simulations, makers of ERPsim, used in 65 countries to accelerate understanding and adoption of SAP solutions. At Baton, Mr. Couillard manages global strategic relationships and the innovation portfolio
  • 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…
  • Sachin Kachhawaha
    Expert since 2024

    Sachin Kachhawaha is currently the COO of SAP Fieldglass Product Engineering group and is working with SAP for more than 16 years. Sachin has in-depth knowledge and expertise in SAP products and architecture. Sachin worked very closely with customers globally and provided advisory, solution architecture services, defined best practices, strategies, and methodologies.
  • 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.
  • 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…