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

  • 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.

  • Ann Largent
    Expert since 2022

    Enthusiastic SAP expert with 22 years of SAP technical experience, I have enjoyed working as an SAP Basis and Security Administrator, Solution Architect and Manager in different areas such as county government, public utilities, and Pre-sales Solution Engineering roles. I have built robust, high-performing SAP landscapes with pro-active planning and architect SAP solutions and upgrades with a future-looking and strategic vision. Highly focused on the goal that the IT SAP Solutions we build need to enable exciting digital user experiences, while also achieving business value and competitive advantages for my customers. In my current role as a Senior Solution Engineer at enosix, I educate, architect, and articulate how customers and prospects can optimize their SAP integrations to Salesforce, SAP C4C, SAP Hybris and other front ends to enable robust systems of engagement with our game changing integration solution. We at enosix provide pre-built, real-time integration solutions for both S/4HANA and ECC customers, please reach out if you want to learn more. I enjoy connecting with anyone in the SAP eco-system, so please reach out directly to me anytime.

  • 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…

  • Brenton O’Callaghan

    Brenton is an IT executive that specializes in customer experience transformation in the software industry powered by data and automation. Today, he is the Chief Customer Officer for Avantra, the industry-leading SAP landscape management, and automation solution where his team is focused on solving real-world IT operations problems for the Avantra global customer base. At…

  • 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,…

  • James Roeske
    Expert since 2021

    James Roeske is CEO and Co-Founder of the Customer Advisory Group LLC. James has over 27 years of SAP Security, Audit, GRC, and executive management experience. Over those years, James has had a professional focus on technical configuration of SAP security, segregation of duty design, user provisioning solutions, GRC software solution design, and corporate compliance implementations for companies around the world. Prior to founding the Customer Advisory Group, Mr. Roeske held strategic positions at Virsa Systems, SAP America, and SAP Canada. This has allowed him to lead, plan, and participate in over 280 SAP GRC and security projects for some of the largest and most complex compliance environments across the globe.

  • Biswaranjan Senapati
    Expert since 2023

    Biswan Senapati is Platinum-level ERP-SAP Consultant having 20 + Years of Industry Experience in Domain Consulting, Business Consulting and Solution Architect for large-scale ERP systems Design, Development, Implementations, Roll out, Support and business process re-engineering capacity in Supply Chain, Chemicals, Hi-Tech, CPG, Pharmaceuticals, Wholesale, Fashion Retailer, Health-Care, and Manufacturing Domains. Biswan has worked SAP Group…

  • Laz Uriza

    Laz is the Global Sales and Strategy Lead for SAP on Azure; he works with the Global Azure Sales Team focusing on RISE on Azure and SAP on Azure initiatives. He also ensures Partners (SI’s, MSP’s and ISV’s) are engaged to provide services on the Azure Cloud Platform.   Before joining Microsoft, Laz has over…

  • David Vives

    Graduated in Mathematics from UPC (Spain) with a Master’s Degree in Management of IT Departments. Over 25 years of experience leading and developing SAP consulting services in global companies. SAP passionate, always trying to discover new SAP solutions and automate business processes. Currently acting as a Managing Partner of CUVIV.