Meet the SAPinsider Experts

Gain insights and connect with the world’s leading SAPinsider Experts, in the largest and fastest-growing SAP membership group.

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.

  • 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…

  • Varun Bhatt

    Varun is a seasoned Technology Executive with 23 years of business and SAP technology transformation leadership across consulting advisory, enterprise, and solution architecture disciplines. Varun is a highly versatile professional with strategic and operational skills in technology and commercial disciplines and has proven success in architecting solutions to support global business transformation initiatives across the…

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.