Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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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.

  • 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.

  • Shawn Brown
    Expert since 2023

    Shawn Brown is a technologists at SAP and an expert on the SAP Business Technology Platform – which simplifies SAP customer landscape and accelerates time to value. Shawn has served the needs of his customers in pre- and post-sales roles with the underlying goal of helping his customers differentiate themselves from their competition.

  • Satwik Das

    Satwik Das is an Associate Partner at TruQua, an IBM company. He has more than 17 years of experience leading and managing large-scale SAP analytics, financial planning, and finance transformation projects. He has extensive experience in SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), and various reporting tools, and he has…

  • John Froelich
    Expert since 2021

    John Froelich is currently an SVP at Bramasol and brings over 40 years of sales, marketing, and leadership experience to his role. In his current role he helps consultant with and guide companies on how improving their Order to Cash process with deep expertise in customer facing, revenue recognition, treasury, cash management and leasing solutions.…

  • Prathyusha Garimella

    Prathyusha is a seasoned SAP EIM Portfolio Expert working at SAP America, Inc. with a passion for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. She holds a track record of driving transformative solutions and optimizing technology landscapes and her extensive experience spans across various industries, helping organizations unlock value and achieve operational excellence. Following are some…

  • Ingo Hilgefort
    Expert since 2019

    Ingo is an experienced product manager working in the analytics & BI software industry for over 15 years now. He always has been focusing on cross-product solutions and focusing on the “big picture” scenarios by keeping the customer experience and requirements in mind. In addition to his experience in product management and engineering, Ingo has…

  • 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…

  • Chris Ortega
    Expert since 2022

    Hello, I’m Chris E. Ortega, the CEO of Fresh FP&A and we provide Fractional CFO and Advisory Services for businesses that allows them to transform and scale their finance organization. We have a proven track record in scaling finance organizations for Seed to Enterprise domestic and international businesses. Wide ranging leadership in public accounting, corporate…