Walldorf, Germany - May 6, 2014, Walldorf, Germany - SAP AG, a software company, announced the decision of its supervisory board to appoint Robert Enslin and Bernd Leukert to the company’s executive board, effective May 4, 2014.
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Mr. Enslin will continue to lead global customer operations and Mr. Leukert will assume responsibility for the global development organization.
Mr. Enslin joined SAP in 1992 and began his career as an SAP consultant supporting customers in South Africa. He has steadily risen to his current role leading the company’s over 20,000 professionals in sales and services and has presided over the integration of SAP’s go-to-market teams to advance a simplified experience for SAP customers.
Mr. Leukert joined SAP in 1994 and has long been one of the company’s foremost technologists and solution visionaries. He was appointed to the Global Managing Board in 2013 after successfully orchestrating the development and delivery of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA. He will now lead the global development organization in redefining business applications on the SAP HANA Cloud platform.
The Supervisory Board also approved two new appointments to the Global Managing Board, Helen Arnold and Stefan Ries, to strengthen the next generation leadership team of SAP.
A 18-year veteran of SAP, Ms. Arnold will assume the role of chief information officer for the SAP Group and lead cloud operations and the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, in addition to her current responsibilities as the head of SAP´s internal Business Innovations and Application Services organization. She has broad experience leading SAP’s internal innovation agenda, most recently transitioning SAP to a next-generation financial management system on the SAP HANA platform.
Mr. Ries recently rejoined SAP to lead global human resources from Egon Zehnder, where he served during the last three years as principal consultant, advising global companies in leadership and executive search. Between 2002 and 2010, he had several global and regional leadership positions with SAP’s HR organization. ■