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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…
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.
Paul DeCrane
Paul is the Americas partner and practice leader at Zanders providing management consulting services to a wide range of global financial services, corporations, NGOs and public organizations in the areas of corporate finance, treasury, and risk. Paul is responsible for managing client engagements with a market leading consulting team of finance experts having professional experience…
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.
Erik Mekelburg
Expert since 2022
As regional Vice President, Erik Mekelburg leads SAP’s customer success team, including customer engagement and sales vision, strategy and execution for large enterprise customers across 18 industries in the West region of SAP North America. In his nearly two decades at SAP and as part of its ecosystem, he served in roles across core software…
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.
Sparsh J Varsani
Expert since 2022
Sparsh is a passionate, results-driven architect with over 18 years of SAP practice. He specializes in Order to Cash and Variant configuration and has implemented various projects including S/4 HANA implementation. His experience includes SAP implementation, support, upgrade, and rollout across a wide range of businesses globally, giving him a well-rounded perspective. He has done…
Chanda Verma
Chanda Verma heads the SAP practice division at Perigee Solutions Inc. She has worked on multiple SAP integration projects with focus on: Procure to Pay Process Order to Cash Process Cross module integrations Data Staging for complex cross-module end-to-end processes High volume data conversions Working closely with the external parties, e.g., banks, tax advisors, internal…