Meet the SAPinsider Experts

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Experts

  • Gabriele Fiata

    Thought leader with a strong background in business processes, internal controls, information technology and security. For more than 15 years, he has been leading teams in implementing innovative process improvements to identify and mitigate risks, to promote resilience for the whole enterprise, and enable overall business growth.

  • Heiko Hecht
    Expert since 2021

    Heiko started working with SAP software in 1994. Heiko serves as a subject matter expert for Financial Accounting, System Upgrades/Transformations, Compliance, Process Discovery/Mining, ESG and Solution Documentation with SAP Solution Manager. Heiko is responsible for the collaboration with SAP and the roll out of SAP TRAC (Total ROI Analysis Campaign) and SAP STAR (System Transformation…

  • 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.

  • René Linsner

    René Linsner is a Partner and CEO of Horvath USA and is responsible for the global SAP practice of the Horváth Group. While studying business administration, he founded an IT start-up that developed innovative solutions for universities before joining Horváth. There he was responsible for developing various areas in Germany and Switzerland before becoming CEO…

  • 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…

  • Suzie Montagu

    A senior finance professional with over 20 years of experience in Top 50 ASX listed companies in the Financial Services industry and Transport sector. Joined Aurizon Holdings Limited in 2010 just prior to the company’s initial public offering and listing as part of a new finance team, responsible for governance and reporting. My current role is Finance Governance Lead for Aurizon Group Finance responsible for Delegations of Authority, Segregation of Duties, Internal Controls and Finance Policies. Previously worked with Suncorp Group Limited (Finance, Banking & Insurance), across several roles including Financial and Regulatory reporting for the Group, Banking and Treasury Operations, and the Banking Group. During my time at Suncorp Group the company underwent several mergers, and I was involved in several projects to integrate accounting systems and reporting. Completed a Bachelor of Business degree (Acct major) at QUT in Brisbane. Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) and Associate member of the Governance Institute of Australia. 

  • Thomas Neudenberger

    Thomas Neudenberger started his SAP Security Journey in 2002 when he founded realtime North America in the World Trade Center in Tampa. realtime is a 35-year-old European software consulting firm and IT service provider who developed the first 2FA/MFA for SAP technology called bioLock in the early 2000. The mission was to establish an enforceable…

  • 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,…

  • Abhishek Rajput

    Abhishek has worked for Lilly over the last 14 years in SAP Security and Controls area. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He implemented SAP Process Control in 2014. Initially he went live with master data and CCM. Since then he has increased the adoption of PC across different functional towers. In addition to…