Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Sachin Kachhawaha
    Expert since 2024

    Sachin Kachhawaha is currently the COO of SAP Fieldglass Product Engineering group and is working with SAP for more than 16 years. Sachin has in-depth knowledge and expertise in SAP products and architecture. Sachin worked very closely with customers globally and provided advisory, solution architecture services, defined best practices, strategies, and methodologies.

  • 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…

  • Matt Montes
    Expert since 2020

    Matt Montes is a Finance and Data driven professional currently working as an SAP Financials Senior Managing Consultant for TruQua, an IBM Company. His professional experience is comprised of Finance Transformation engagements which includes accounting, business process design, financial planning & analysis, data analytics, training, and change management. Matt Montes has 7.5 years of financial consulting experience utilizing SAP Central Finance, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP, SAP Fiori, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Group Reporting, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. In addition to 5 full lifecycle implementations, product development, and 6 POC’s, Matt Montes also works as a trainer, content developer, and international speaker.

  • Paul Ovigele

    Paul Ovigele is the founder of the premium consulting platform ERPfixers. He has worked as an SAP financials consultant since 1997 in both North America and Europe, specializing in implementing financial accounting and controlling along with their integrated areas for companies in industries such as consumer goods, chemicals, logistics, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and entertainment. Paul has…

  • 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,…

  • Chris Rae
    Expert since 2023

    Chris is a business-oriented technologist, SAP evangelist and a member of SAP’s coveted global mentor program, who founded DalRae Solutions in 2015. Having spent over 20 years in the SAP industry, he is passionate about driving business change through technology, and Chris is a business-oriented technologist, SAP evangelist and a member of SAP’s coveted global…

  • Ram Ranganathan
    Expert since 2023

    Ram R is a senior-level delivery manager with over 15 yrs. of combined experience in enterprise management and product consulting experience in driving operational and digital transformation projects for fortune 500 companies in B2B and B2C businesses across the globe. He has spent the recent 10 yrs in managing the delivery of the ERP cloud…

  • Umut Rodoplu
    Expert since 2023

    Umut Rodoplu is currently carrying out Director of Information Technology role for TED University, Ankara, Turkey and holds a master’s degree in industrial engineering. Within TED University he is managing a large-scale SAP ERP landscape (SLCM, Fiori, BPC, CRM, BO/BI, CO, FI, MM, SD and HR), integrated with other enterprise business systems required within the higher education domain. As an IT professional with more than 21 years of business experience in higher education, telecommunication, oil & gas, manufacturing and defense sectors and with 17 years of experience in program/project management (certified PMP since 2010, certified PSM I since 2019), Umut has designed, developed and managed many large scale enterprise digital transformation projects, ERP transformation and upgrade projects and service delivery operations which have been listed as local and global success stories. At TED University, he is also acting as Digital Transformation Lead mentoring C-Level management and business owners to develop a digitally driven culture, working with them to develop a clear understanding of the value chain and seek for innovation areas. Umut is an experienced speaker and presented previously in several SAP HERUG and SAP Insider Conferences.