Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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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…
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Sandeep Gambhirrao

    Sandeep has almost 18 years of global experience ( Middle east and India ) in Operation excellence and Quality Function viz. Supplier Quality, Incoming Quality, Process Quality, Product Quality (AIR CIRCUIT BREAKER), New product Quality and QMS Audits Operations, Instruments selection & purchase, setting quality function in the new plant. A lean Six sigma Black…
  • Rahul Goyal
    Expert since 2023

    HEAD of ERP, HRIS & ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS | CPA-MBA-MS | Finance, Accounting & data science expert for software firms | ERP, AI, ML, RPA, GAAP | 20 years of experience scaling businesses from $1M to $1B revenue, on-premise to cloud
  • Marc Hoppe
    Expert since 2023

    After graduating with a degree in business administration, Marc Hoppe worked at the (University of Applied Sciences Northeast Lower Saxony in Lüneburg, John Moores University in Liverpool and Baumann Technical University in Baumann Technical University in Moscow), Marc Hoppe worked for CAS AG as an SAP developer in the areas of logistics and production planning…
  • Rob Jackson

    As a Principal Solution Architect, Rob supports the sales process across North America with his product and process expertise for our accounts payable products and the Serrala data and document management solutions.  In his role, he is responsible for developing tailored demonstrations, conducting business cases, and proof of concepts for Serrala customers.
  • 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.