Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Nithyasree Balasubramanian
    Expert since 2023

    Nithya is an SAP Cloud Architect and an SAP BTP expert from Deloitte. She has experience with full cycle implementations handling some of the latest products of SAP like S/4 HANA Cloud, services of SAP BTP like SAP Process Automation, iRPA, CPI, Integration Suite, SuccessFactors, Ariba among others. Passionate about automating the SAP Software Products, her main goal is to build and deploy powerful conversational interfaces to revolutionize the customer experience.

  • Andy Hancock

    Andy Hancock is a Global Vice President of the Centre of Excellence within SAP Digital Supply Chain. As a seasoned global executive who has held numerous leadership roles during his 15-year tenure at SAP, he has brought quantifiable results to leading global brands through innovation advocacy. Having worked in more than 40 countries and experienced a vast array of cultures, he understands the importance of challenging the status quo to drive business outcome and create a competitive differentiator in turbulent global markets. Andy brings thought leadership and a clarity of vision to businesses by merging a strong technical foundation, a passion for solving problems and leveraging a vast array of knowledge obtained from real world situations he has encountered during his career. He understands how to quickly uncover the root of a problem and articulate a clear path to a successful business outcome. Andy holds a Master’s in Computer Science and a Bachelor in Aeronautic Engineering from the University of Salford, United Kingdom. He is also a Professional Member of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Brenton O’Callaghan

    Brenton is an IT executive that specializes in customer experience transformation in the software industry powered by data and automation. Today, he is the Chief Customer Officer for Avantra, the industry-leading SAP landscape management, and automation solution where his team is focused on solving real-world IT operations problems for the Avantra global customer base. At…

  • Doug Smith
    Expert since 2022

    Doug Smith is the Product Lead for the Cloud Services Business at Microsoft Canada. Smith has over 20 years of experience partnering with  customers on their digital transformation journey to the cloud. He offers expertise in areas like: IoT, SAP on Azure, Data Center Modernization, Advanced Analytics, Big Compute, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Application Development, and Cloud DevOps.

  • Laz Uriza

    Laz is the Global Sales and Strategy Lead for SAP on Azure; he works with the Global Azure Sales Team focusing on RISE on Azure and SAP on Azure initiatives. He also ensures Partners (SI’s, MSP’s and ISV’s) are engaged to provide services on the Azure Cloud Platform.   Before joining Microsoft, Laz has over…