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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…
Diego Lombardini
Expert since 2023
Diego is an experienced Enterprise Solutions Architect with 20+ years’ experience across SAP technologies. He has worked both as partner as well as customer, giving him a complete perspective on what it takes to sell, implement and run systems and organisations. He is passionate about technology and innovation, focusing on customer outcomes and delivering business value.
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…
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…
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…
Chris Ortega
Expert since 2022
Hello, I’m Chris E. Ortega, the CEO of Fresh FP&A and we provide Fractional CFO and Advisory Services for businesses that allows them to transform and scale their finance organization. We have a proven track record in scaling finance organizations for Seed to Enterprise domestic and international businesses. Wide ranging leadership in public accounting, corporate…
Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy
Expert since 2024
Renjith Kumar Palaniswamy, a highly experienced SAP BW/4HANA architect with over 16 years of experience, he is also a distinguished author with a published book from SAP Press. He is currently serving as the BW/4HANA Services Architect at SAP Americas Inc within the SAP Cloud Success Services Center of Expertise , Renjith possesses extensive proficiency in SAP BW/4HANA and SAP DataSphere. His expertise covers various critical aspects, including data extraction from S/4HANA for BI analytical reporting, S/4HANA-based BW extraction, Native S/4HANA Data Modeling, Mixed BW/4HANA modeling , BW/4HANA Greenfield implementation and Migrations to BW/4HANA and SAP DataSphere. Renjith has excelled in his role as an SAP BW/4HANA architect and services consultant at SAP America, collaborating with renowned Fortune 100 companies across North America. His primary focus has been on BW/4HANA data modeling using mixed modeling techniques and Data Staging from S/4HANA. Renjith has played a crucial role in multiple SAP BW on HANA migration projects and complex SAP BW/4HANA conversions in North America, including overseeing the world's first and largest SAP BW migration powered by SAP HANA for a prominent retail company.Renjith has successfully led and contributed to numerous large-scale BW/4HANA implementation and conversion projects across various industry sectors, providing valuable insights and solutions for organizational Analytical Strategy positioning.
Shashank Paritala
Expert since 2024
Shashank Paritala - Practice Manager for Analytics and Data Monetization at Avvale, bringing extensive experience in the SAP Analytics Stack, including BW, Datasphere, and SAC, along with broad functional knowledge across various industries.
Nick Parkin
In 2001, Nick Parkin established Proceed Group in response to a growing need identified by SAP UK. Their customers were grappling with rapidly increasing data volumes, which posed significant challenges. Proceed Group was created to provide expert data archiving solutions for these clients. As word of the company’s success spread, additional SAP regions began seeking…