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

  • David Austin

    Deep Learning Engineer leading AI projects in computer vision and machine learning

  • John Austria

    John is an Information Technology leader with over 20 years of business application implementation experience spanning multiple enterprise platforms, technologies, and industries. John leverages his IT management consulting experience, program delivery, and seasoned leadership and motivational skills to deliver technology based solutions to drive business process efficiencies and achieve business objectives. John most recently led…

  • Nicholas Aversano

  • Javaid Awan

    Javaid Awan has deep process, configuration, and technical knowledge of finance and supply chain with over 25 years of experience in business and IT roles. Awan has held several senior positions as a Financial Controller, CIO, Head of Shared Services, Head of Business Transformation, Head of DevOps, and has implemented both SAP and non-SAP solutions…

  • Vishal Awasthi
    Expert since 2024

    As Founder and CEO of Neev, Vishal leads both the software development and commercial operations, where he oversees a global team servicing some of the world’s best known companies. He has more than twenty years’ experience in the IT industry and specializes in design, productization, marketing, pre-sales, implementation and support of enterprise business and content management solutions. Prior to Neev, Vishal was Senior Vice President of Serrala where he led the global development of the Corestone and Accounts Payable solutions. His work with Serrala began when, Dolphin Solutions Corp, merged with Hanse Orga and e5 Consulting. Vishal served as the Chief Technology Officer of Dolphin for X years. During his time at Dolphin, Vishal transformed the company from a niche consulting startup to a software product company. In this role he carried full P&L responsibilities, helping build and manage consulting, product, and engineering teams and spearhead successful partnerships. Vishal has strong skills in cloud architecture, database design, systems analysis, programming as well as team and project management. He has extensive experience setting up and managing teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Vishal has BS in Electrical Engineering and MS/MBA in Industrial Engineering and Management.

  • Reiner Bachthaler

    Reiner Bachthaler

    Reiner Bachthaler is an experienced Senior Product Manager with a long and successful history in the hardware and software industry. His current focus is on software solutions for the digital transformation of SAP landscapes, combined with the journey to the Cloud. Bachthaler graduated as an Electronic Engineer from the Technical University of Karlsruhe (KIT).

  • Tim Back
    Expert since 2023

    Chief Development Architect in Business Technology Platform at SAP.

  • Kevin Bader

  • Nitin Badjatia

    Nitin Badjatia serves as the Senior Vice President, Marketing and Solutions for SAP CX. A veteran of the enterprise software business, Nitin has held executive positions at Servicenow, Oracle, RightNow, and Siebel Systems. Before diving into technology, Nitin was in global institutional risk at NationsBank and Mellon. He is also a founding board member of Customer Commons, a non-profit spinoff from the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet Law and Society, at Harvard Law School.

  • Christoph Baeck

    Christoph is the Head of IT Infrastructure at Hilti and is responsible for approximately 30,000 clients, 1,200 Hilti locations, and an SAP S/4HANA / SAP ByDesign-based landscape used by 2 out of 3 Hilti employees every day. From 2011 to 2015 Christoph built up Hilti Asia IT Services, the Kuala Lumpur-based strategic IT location for…