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

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Carles Lamas Martinez
    Expert since 2023

    I am an Industrial Engineer and have a degree in Business Sciences, an MBA, and completed the SAP Consulting Master's program in 2014. Since that year, I have been working at CUVIV Business Services SL. I started as a finance consultant, but shortly after, I joined the company's management team as one of the new partners. Despite beginning as a finance consultant, my role has evolved into a more managerial and commercial profile, allowing me to explore various SAP modules. In recent years, CUVIV Business Services SL has undergone significant growth, becoming a consultancy capable of providing support in most modules, with a specialization in international legal matters. We assist multinational companies with a presence in multiple countries, standing out as experts in localizations, making us the ideal partner for their expansion projects. All of this has also allowed me to expand my knowledge in the SAP world since continuous learning is essential to providing better service to our clients. SAP has undergone technological evolution in recent years, and everyone working in its ecosystem has evolved with it.

  • Scott McCullough

    Scott McCullough

    Scott has 27 years of IT experience with a quarter century directly supporting/running SAP. Scott spent eleven of those years as a customer supporting SAP from the hardware up to SAP Basis for a global manufacturing company.   For the past 13 years, Scott has been assisting NetApp customers and partners who run SAP and…

  • 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…

  • Christian Niederhagemann

    Since May 2019 Christian is responsible as Group CIO of GEA, one of the largest suppliers for the food processing industry and a wide range of other industries. GEA generated consolidated revenues of approximately EUR 4.8 billion in 2018. The international technology group specializes in machinery, and plants as well as process technology and components.…

  • 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…