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  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Danny McCarthy
    Expert since 2023

    17+ years of IT leadership experience; inclusive of multi-year accountability for SAP/ERP management, including responsibility for all Global SAP environments, managing hosting, upgrades, monitoring, development, strategy, compliance, security, policies, authorizations and user management. Also held responsibilities over global Integrations including business decision making over system integration architecture and design, integration synergies and accountability for all business related integration projects. Managed teams accountable for the SAP Enterprise Portal and SAP MDM (Technical) Architectures. Currently I am the Director of IT, Technical Infrastructure Services, for Baker and Baker. Responsible for managing the entire IT infrastructure landscape which includes IT Workplace Services, Enterprise Infrastructure and Operation Services and managing the IT Operations Service framework with the objective to reduce the overall cost of infrastructure management, and to optimise the infrastructure budget.

  • Gaurav Pandey

    Over 19 years of experience in ERP(SAP) implementation and over 13 years of managing and leading SAP project teams across Life Sciences, Retail, Automobile, A&D, Hi-Tech, and manufacturing industries. Managed all aspects of SAP solution design through technical implementations, Architecture re-design and configurations. Technical design expertise includes product development, testing, implementation, roll-out and support. Successfully managed projects of up to 10 million USD annual portfolio and created opportunities within the existing engagements.

  • Aric Quinones
    Expert since 2022

    Aric is a Managing Director at Protiviti who leads the SAP Practice and Technology Consulting Practice in the East. For over 20 years, Aric has been helping clients manage digital transformations with the implementation and maintenance of SAP and the surrounding ecosystem. He is one of Protiviti’s firm-wide experts in S/4, Central Finance, Finance Transformation,…