Speakers - SAP UK & Ireland User Group

Alan Bowling

Chairman and Director, SAP UK & Ireland User Group Chief Information Officer and Director, Training and Development Agency for Schools Working with SAP products for ten years, and the user group for six years, Alan has run an SAP CCC and installed one of the first Netweaver solutions in the UK....More ›

Chakib Bouhdary

Dr. Chakib Bouhdary is the Chief Value Officer for the board area Global Field Operations. In this role, he reports to Bill McDermott, President and CEO of Global Field Operations.
Chakib is the founder of SAP’s Value Engineering framework. His mission is making every SAP customer a Best Run Business. Since joining SAP, he has built a world-class organization of professionals that is laser-focused on creating value along the entire IT investment lifecycle for prospects and customers, focusing on opportunities to take their business to a new level of growth by:
• Enabling business transformation initiatives by aligning business and IT stra...More ›

Kriss Akabusi

KRISS KEZIE UCHE CHUKWU DURU AKABUSI MBE MA Kriss is famous for his achievements in athletics where his greatest individual triumph was his Gold Medal in the 1990 European Championships when he also beat David Hemery’s 22 year old British Record. He began his international athletic career in 1983 as a member of the 4x400 metre relay squad and will probably always be remembered for helping Britain clinch the Gold and beat the Americans in the World Championships 4x400 metre relay in Tokyo in 1991. In 1992 as 3 x Olympic medallist, World, European and Commonwealth Champion Kriss was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty The Queen in her Birthday Honou...More ›

Ray Wang

R “Ray” Wang is a Partner with Altimeter Group and the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View”. The blog focuses on enterprise apps strategy, vendor selection, software contract negotiations, and emerging business and technology trends. As an enterprise strategist, Ray focuses on bridging the gap between today’s enterprise landscape with an emerging class of enterprise business solutions adopting the spirit of social technologies and Enterprise 2.0 concepts. Research topic areas often include ERP, CRM, Project Based Solutions, Order Management, Master Data Management, and SaaS. For software vendors,...More ›

Richard Newman

Richard has worked with body language since 1995, training over 11,000 people from 45 countries. His team will boost your success in business, with advanced sales, negotiation and presentation skills. Clients include FTSE 100 companies and he has been featured on BBC Radio, SKY TV and in The Daily Telegraph. ...More ›

Tim Noble

Tim Noble, Managing Director of SAP United Kingdom and Ireland, joined the company in June 2009. His primary focus is to drive the company’s business strategy, and execute growth plans that will enable SAP to expand its leadership position in the business software arena. A key goal for Tim is to carry forward the company’s Clear strategy which enables customers to exploit SAP’s integrated solutions for improved performance, efficiency and flexibility. Prior to joining SAP, Tim was Senior Vice-President and Executive Officer at Gartner. In this role, he had responsibility for the development and execution of the company’s global sales strategy...More ›

Adam Pederson

Adam Pedersen, SAP Business One Solution Expert - Adam joined the SAP SME Division in April 2007 in the Partner Enablement team. His primary responsibilities are to assist in the provision of expertise, advice and support to UK partners in selling and implementing the solution in the UK. Prior to joining SAP, Adam ran a Business One channel for an SAP partner for 4 years after the product launch in the UK providing pre-sales, implementation and support consultancy....More ›

Adam Trickett

Adam Trickett is a Systems Developer for CareFusion (formerly Cardinal Health). He has programmed in a variety of environments on a variety of projects for over 2 decades. He is an open-source advocate and a strong believer in “KISS” solutions...More ›

Alan Whitworth

Alan Whitworth is the Senior Business Analyst for PLM and SCM for Cardinal Health’s International CTSi Business in Europe. He has been working in a variety of roles in the Life Science Industry over the past 30 years (including the past 10 years in SAP). He has worked on numerous SAP projects at Warner Lambert/Pfizer, Alaris, and Cardinal Health....More ›

Amanda Byrne

Amanda has worked in local authority for over 24 years and is currently employed by Worcestershire County Council's Financial Services Department

She has been involved with the development and support of SAP Financials since its initial implementation in 2001. More recently she was involved in the implementation of the Human Resources and Payroll modules, responsible for the integration with the Finance modules. ...More ›

Andrew Bush

Andy joined the company (then Group 4) back in 1998. Over the years he developed the financial reporting and budgetary controls across a range of custodial and FM contracts, managing a team of commercial accountants. In 06 he was drafted onto the Financial Intelligence Project to look at products that could improve how the company put together its forecasts and how it consolidated and reported its numbers. He was then at the helm through the implementation of BPC - the selected product, and landed the role of Development Manager in November 07. ...More ›

Andrew Morris-Richardson

Andrew is a main board director of Abacus Holdings Ltd, which owns both Abacus Lighting and Abacus Shanghai. Andrew controls the strategic and financial operations at Abacus Lighting, integrating CRM, Finance and IT to drive the future growth of the business.

Andrew is:

A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
A Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
A Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers.
A Freeman of The City of London.
Alumni of the International Institute of Management Development in Lausanne.

He sits on:

The OPDU Advisory Council
The DWP Trustee Panel
T...More ›

Andy Croston

Ann Fisher

Ann has been with Zurich for 29 years and during that time worked in Finance including managing Salaries. In 1996 she was part of a team who moved the Payroll from Finance into HR. This was very successful and helped to facilitate the move to SAP HR in 2000 when we merged 3 legacy systems onto a fully integrated SAP HR and Payroll System. Since then we also upgraded from 4.5 to 4.7. Our SAP HR product is ever developing both in ESS, MDT, Flexible Benefits and most recently Workflow, including in 2007 implementing a new Pension Scheme for the Company. ...More ›

Anne Wignall

Anne Wignall is the SAP HR Team leader, responsible for the CAPITA Group’s SAP HR & Payroll support and development. Anne has worked with SAP HRCM across commercial and public sector organisations since 1995....More ›

Ashish Morzaria

Ashish Morzaria is a member of the SAP Value Engineering (VE) EMEA organization and is responsible for the benchmarking programme in EMEA, where he works with strategic SAP customers and prospects on benchmarking engagements and business case studies...More ›

Bianca Ball

Bianca has worked with payroll in excess of 20 years and has the benefit of having been a user of SAP prior to joining SAP UK as a support consultant.
Bianca moved from Support to Product Localisation where she is able to make good use of her extensive knowledge of Payroll business processes and is able to advise on best practices when using the SAP payroll software. Bianca specialises in both GB and Irish Payroll and represents SAP at the Irish Payroll User group meetings ...More ›

Chris Axton

Chris joined Lilly’s SAP implementation team in 1998 after 7 years in manufacturing resource and mps planning. After successful SAP implementations in France and Spain he joined Lilly’s SAP Centre of Excellence in a support and implementation role. He was a member of this team for implementation at 23 manufacturing sites and 143 distribution centres. He became the global architect for PP responsible for DP, SNP and PP/DS design and support in 2005....More ›

Chris Darvill

Chris McLellan

Chris has worked at SAP for almost ten years as an HCM consultant and project team trainer within the Education department. His area of interest is Talent Management and Enterprise Learning. His role training consultants has meant that he has had wide experience in both the theory and practice of implementing these solutions....More ›

Chris Taplin

Currently at SAP as Head of PreSales managing a team of 80, Chris has spent 8 years in the Chemical Industry in Procurement before switching to a 11 year career in the SAP world. Firstly as a implementation consultant for a partner and then the last 6 years in various Presales roles at SAP UK&I....More ›

Chris Wilson

Chris has worked in the Supply Chain for the past 15 years. He started his career in Forecasting for Unilever before moving on to become Demand Manager for Golden Wonder. Following that he was Supply Chain Manager for Peter Black Beauty. Chris is now the Operations Director for The Gro Company....More ›

Chuck Nardi

Charles Nardi has more than 10 years of Information Technology experience in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, including significant experience with SAP. Mr. Nardi was Formerly Vice President, Operations of Aptuit Informatics; a $400 million global drug development services company, he was responsible for the software development organization that developed, implemented and maintained mission critical systems in drug development for major pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Prior to joining Aptuit, Mr. Nardi held senior positions in major companies, including Information Officer and Executive Director Business Systems at Purdue Phar...More ›

Claire Broughton

As the Head of ERP-HCM. Claire is responsible for the positioning of SAP’s Core Solutions. Engaging in numerous activities, such as Business Development, Partner Engagement, SAP GTM and Roadmap Strategy, Customer engagement and Business Case support. Claire has been with SAP for 11 years....More ›

Claude Gerber

South African born, immigrated in 1999 and worked on several contracts in the UK till taking a permanent position with the BBC in 2001. Part of initial BW implementation team at the BBC. Several BI based projects consolidating data across the BBC’s landscape. Currently working at Coca-Cola Enterprises as part of the Global HR Implimentation team to build a robust global CCE HR reporting platform....More ›

Colin Cooper

Colin Cooper is Commercial Director of ISSEL, who specialise in the implementation of SAP Strategy Management, creating an environment where there is a clear view of performance achievement. His over 18 years of profit responsible, line management experience in the development of strategies in the consumer durables and consumer services arenas provide a background to understand the pressures on organisations today....More ›

Colin Rice

With over ten years experience in SAP training, Colin provides end to end training solutions for major SAP rollouts across Serco. He and his team design and deliver instructor led and computer based training packages to end users....More ›

Dan Barton

Dan has over 10 years SAP experience within Supply Chain and Logistics Execution which has been gained in various roles as an end user and consultant. In his current role Dan is responsible for the development of SAP Solutions & Business Systems across one of UK’s leading integrated dairy businesses - Milklink. He manages a team of Business Analysts to maintain and develop the Milklink’s SAP R3, BI and SCM system(s) in line with the business strategic approach....More ›

David Stanforth

David Stanforth has been in the ERP environment for 28 years. An employee of SAP for 10 years (1993 – 2003), he specializes in supply chain activities, specifically production planning and execution in a number of industries....More ›

Derek Knowles

Derek has over 12 years SAP experience, and been a project manager for both SAP customers and partners. Initially introduced to SAP at Princes, Derek project managed their first implementation of SAP. He then joined the business consulting team at SAP, prior to becoming Head of SAP at Unipart Logistics. Derek has recently overseen the delivery of a comprehensive outsourced warehouse solution for Waterstones books, implementing a supply chain solution incorporating a managed centralised distribution warehouse and proof of delivery / returns solution...More ›

Di Archer

Di has worked in local authority for over 11 years and is currently employed by Worcestershire County Council's Financial Services Department. She has been involved with the development and support of SAP Payroll since the initial implementation of HR Payroll in 2007. More recently she was involved in the implementation of the Travel Module and ESS/MSS. She is now responsible for Payroll developments and works for Worcestershire County Councils SAP Development Team. ...More ›

Ed Johnson

Ed Johnson B.A. Hons Born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England in 1968, after studying his A levels, Ed read Economics at Nottingham Trent University. After graduation he took his first job at British Aerospace in Cheshire as a programmer in 1990. After 3 years, Ed moved on to work for United Utilities, and then Barclays Bank in his first freelance role as an analyst/programmer. Ed’s freelancing, for 8 very successful and stimulating years, saw him welcomed back to both United Utilities and Aerospace, and then finally AstraZeneca, where he was offered a senior permanent position in 2003. In 2008, having been shortlisted by Gartner for their ‘EP...More ›

Gaurav Swarup

Gaurav is the SAP Delivery Manager at Yell responsible for delivery, resourcing and governance of SAP development projects running as part of business change programmes....More ›

Giles Hutchins

Sustainability Solutions is a rapidly evolving area for Atos and Giles is responsible for its remit across all sectors and service lines, whilst reporting to the Head of Atos Consulting and UK Board. He draws on over a decade of business and IT transformation experience to focus on how organisations can adapt efficiently to embrace the desire, and demands, to become more sustainable.
Giles’ main activities over the last few years as Practice Head have been: leadership & people management; sales & business development; delivery excellence; go-to-market proposition development; business strategy; partnership & alliance management;...More ›

Hamish Henderson

Hamish Henderson has over 25 years experience in IT Development and Operations both in Europe and the USA. For the last 10 Years he has focused on Enterprise Wide Process Automation. He is a Consultant with a wide knowledge of centralising and controlling the multiple Operating systems and applications, including SAP, in today’s data centres. Mr. Henderson has lead project teams implementing Process Automation solutions for major companies throughout Europe, Middle East and the USA. Recent Speaking Engagements OBUG Benelux FSD Konference Nyborg, Denmark ITSMF Netherlands and UK NCC SAP Malmo, Sweden AUOUG – Sydney, Australia NZOUG – Rotorua, ...More ›

Henny Claessens

Henny has been active in the ICT domain for more than 30 years. His experience with SAP started in 1997. He has been involved in the implementation of most of the SAP main offerings ranging from ERP, SRM, CRM as well as the most common NetWeaver components like SNP, XI/PI Middleware and BW/BOBJ. He also has experience with some of the ERP extension sets SLcM (being the SAP industry solution for Higher Education & Research), EH&S and eHR (ESS/MSS). He has been involved in the evaluation of Grants Management aimed at the administrative support of sponsored programs thoughout their lifecycle.
Henny currently serves as a Board member of ...More ›

Holger Gauss

Holger Gauss is the Director of Technical Services for Sybase iAnywhere in EMEA. Holger has more then ten years of experience working with enterprise customers to deploy mobile solutions. Holger was running the project introduced himself and can share some insight into successfully deploying mobile projects using SAP as a back-end....More ›

Iain Sibley

As the Consulting Director responsible for Business Technology Iain has over 14 years SAP technology experience and has been involved with numerous SAP Upgrades....More ›

Ian Scott

Ina Kaiser

2006 – ongoing Tecan Trading AG, Switzerland Management of international projects: - SAP LSO (Learning solution) implementation and rollouts - SAP MAM (Mobile Asset Management) implementation - Development and implementation of global Project Management Process under consideration of regulatory requirements
2001 – 2006 Institut Straumann AG, Switzerland Management of international projects: - SAP R/3 implementation several countries - Implementation of an Archiving solution - Sub-project manager SAP CRM implementation globally - Development of standardized Project Management Method - Development and implementation of IT Change Management Pr...More ›

Jason Bath

Jason runs SAP’s solution sales business in the UK covering user interfaces, data architecture, agile processes and IT Excellence. He has been working at SAP for over two year and prior to SAP worked for Oracle in the UK. He lives in Farnham, enjoys sailing and has two young children....More ›

Joel Harris

Joel Harris, SAP Business One Solution Expert UKI - Joined the SAP SME Division during 2005 in the Partner Enablement team. His primary responsibilities are to provide UKI SAP Business One partners with expertise, advice and support in selling and implementing the solution in the UKI. Prior to joining SAP Joel worked within both the Systems Union and Microsoft Great Plains communities in various roles including Pre-Sales, Account Management and Development....More ›

Joerg Rudat

Joerg Rudat joined SAP in April 1996 as consultant in the logistics area. After several years as a consultant and a project manager in international projects, he expanded his responsibility as Head of Consulting for the process industries in Germany.
In 2006 he took responsibility for the Upgrade Competency Center in EMEA . This organisation is responsible for driving the adoption of SAP ERP 6.0 including Enhancement Packages and all SAP Business Suite 7 components across the EMEA region. ...More ›

John Appleby

John has been the visionary and mastermind in building Bluefin’s technology development team. Key to this success has been his leadership in technology innovation. John is working with customers and partners helping to develop, structure and deliver IT strategies to meet business needs and objectives. He is currently focusing on the value mobile solutions can deliver organisations of all sizes....More ›

John Burton

Jon Marshall

Jon Marshall is a Project Manager at Kohler Mira Ltd, specialising in the Supply Chain and Logistics of areas SAP. Of his 17 years in working IT, he has 10 years experience of SAP and recently managed the implementation of a European Distribution Centre in France. He is especially passionate about warehousing efficiency and effectiveness. He started his SAP career whilst working as an Assembler Programmer for Amadeus in the South of France. Implementing a Wireless and Paperless warehouse using SAP WM, RF and Bar Codes. ...More ›

Jonathan Chapman

Karthikeya Reddy K

An SAP certified consultant with over 5 years experience on HCM area. Started with country version UK, moved into Ireland and Public Sector (India)....More ›

Keith Grayson

Keith Grayson is the primary contact point for SAP Identity Management topics EMEA-wide, with over 10 years of experience in Identity Management and over 20 in secure IT....More ›

Ken Dent

Ken has worked as Company Financial Controller for Draka in the UK for 8 years, after working in the cable industry for ABB and BICC....More ›

Leif-André Aarlie

Leif-André works as Leading Advisor for the Procurement and Logistics Process Owner at Statoil ASA. He is corporate accountable for the Procurement and Supply chain application in the Statoil ASA group. His background is from Logistics, Customer Advisory, Software Advisory, Software Sales, Business Development and Consulting. When it comes to SAP knowledge he is in addition to ERP and SRM, skilled in SAP technology, Enterprise Service Architecture, Enterprise Portal, Knowledge Management, Collaboration and Mobility. Statoil is an integrated technology-based international energy company primarily focused on upstream oil and gas operations. Hea...More ›

Liz Pryke

Liz Pryke is a Business Systems Analyst working for Anglian Water. Her SAP experience includes business implementation for major SAP projects in the areas of work and asset management, including the use of mobile technology at Anglian Water....More ›

Lynn Farrell

I have worked for Southwark Council since 1983, starting in HR and then working through a variety of non-HR operational posts before joining the SAP implementation team that first went live in 1999. I am currently the SAP HR & Payroll Manager. We have been through 2 upgrades of SAP. Following the last upgrade to ECC6 we are further developing ESS, exploiting MSS functionality as part of our efficiency and green agenda....More ›

Mark Hudson

Mark is the co-founder and Vice President of Product Management at Antivia. After graduating from Leeds Metropolitan University with a BSc (Hons) in Computing, Mark found the application of business intelligence and data warehousing came relatively naturally and found himself falling quickly into a career focused on business intelligence. He was lucky enough to start his career right at the beginning of the BI explosion when there were a plethora of BI vendors to choose from. Vendors which are now unfortunately only fondly remembered by employees and ex-customers. Mark’s firm favourite has always been BusinessObjects and he has had the enviab...More ›

Mark O’Connor

Mark has over 20 years experience within within the Utilities & Construction sector. He recently led, the Solution Architecture & Configuration on UK SAP centric Back Office implementation....More ›

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis established Beta Group in 1987 and with the help of SAP, has successfully grown the business into the profitable multi-division £5 million turnover business it is today...More ›

Martin McCann

Martin is Head of Business Development at SAP and an authority on Financial Performance Management. Prior to SAP Mr McCann held senior executive positions in consulting, software and analyst firms focused on Enterprise Performance Management. He is has published many articles on corporate strategy and Financial Performance Management....More ›

Martin Ogden

20 years in IT and I have been looking after an Infrastructure for around 9 years, 2500+ users, 32 sites across the UK. SAP ERP 6, BI 7, BIA, EP 7, SRM 5, XI 3, SM 7.0, Oracle 10g, Citrix MPS all under pinned with Windows 2003. NetApps storage, MPLS...More ›

Martin Riedel

Martin Riedel joined SAP in January 2006 as Partner in the Office of the CEO/internal consulting organization. In November 2006 he became head of the Global Upgrade Office (GUO) as a Senior Vice President, and in 2009 expanded his responsibilities as Head of Support Portfolio Management. With 20 years experience in IT, including 10 years as the global CIO of a multinational, multibillion healthcare company, as well as 3 years as Associate Principle with McKinsey, he combines insights gained as customer, consultant and SAP executive....More ›

Martin Stoker

Martyn Proctor

Martyn leads su53 Solutions, one of Europe’s top independent specialist GRC Consultancies. His innovative management and transformational experience make su53 the success it is today....More ›

Maureen Gregory

Maureen Gregory is the UK and IE Payroll Localisation Manager and is responsible for ensuring that the payroll product offered by SAP remains legally compliant.
Maureen has been with SAP UKI for 13 years starting as a senior Payroll consultant working on many large payroll implementations before transferring to Product Management in August 1999.
Prior to joining SAP, Maureen spent many years working in the payroll area of the business and then as a business analyst within the Finance area. She brings over 20 years experience into the SAP Product.
She plays an active role in the internal payroll department of SAP and is therefore able to...More ›

Mike Jones

Mike has over twenty years experience in developing and implementing business systems, carrying out a variety of roles including management consulting, business partnering, project management, program office establishment and operation, project assurance review, BCP/DR development, team leading and systems analysis, design & development. Mike has worked extensively in the insurance industry in the UK and abroad, following an earlier background in engineering and manufacturing. In 2008 Mike managed RSA’s code remediation workstream on their upgrade from SAP 4.6c to SAP ECC6. ...More ›

Mike King

With a background of over 20 years of experience in the management of technology projects, programmes and operations at all levels of the organisation, for the last 5 years Mike has been responsible for the SAP Development Programme in Oxfordshire County Council....More ›

Natalie Chiang

Natalie is a director at Column 5 Consulting, a firm specialising in enterprise performance management and the implementation of enabling SAP technologies. `

Following qualification as a charted accountant with PwC Natalie became an M&A professional at a merchant bank before moving into strategy roles at blue chip organisations. Natalie was first introduced to enterprise performance management software at GUS plc where she project managed the implementation of their new reporting platform using SAP BPC. Following a period of internal consulting with Burberry she has worked with a number of large enterprises and household names on the ...More ›

Neil Crew

Neil has been with Princes for nearly 15 years, and was one of the team that originally implemented SAP in 1997. He has been IT Director since 2000...More ›

Nick Everitt

Nick has been the manager of the corus1 Support Team since 2008. He currently manages the support of over 4,000 users which is expected to increase to just under 7,000. Nick also has 12 years Public Sector experience. He was involved in the implementation of SAP into Cardiff Council and spent four years managing the SAP Competency Centre...More ›

Nick Hancock

Nick is a Senior Business Analyst/Project Manager at WWU. He has worked at WWU for 4 years and has over 25 years Energy sector experience ranging from power line engineer to project manager. Nick has been working with SAP for the past 8 years with his experience including IS-U, R/3, and CRM. ...More ›

Nick Parkin

Nick Parkin has over 25 years’ experience in deploying ERP systems, including 14 working with SAP. Nick has spent the past 8 years implementing archiving strategies for SAP customers. He has a PhD in Computer Science....More ›

Nigel Hirst

Nigel Hirst has been an instrumental player in Wilts’ business transformation programme, ensuring that the organization acquired the correct ERP tool to support the business in these challenging times and is posed to be at the forefront of the economic recovery. He has a background in a variety of industries such as manufacturing, service provision and investment banking....More ›

Olivier Dubuisson

Olivier has a Masters in Industrial Sciences, specialising in Computer Sciences. Olivier, working with NorthgateArinso since 2005, has experience of defining and implementing new HR standards and products to several global organisations across many industries. Originally a key member of NGA’s euHReka Products team; more recently Olivier has moved from Belgium to the UK to take up the post of UK SAP Technology...More ›

Pamela Flanagan

With previous experience in programming and lecturing in Further Education, Pamela joined RSA in1998 as part of the initial SAP implementation team. Originally a SAP ABAP programmer she was then a SAP Delivery Team Leader for over 5 years and is now a Solution Architect specialising in SAP developments. She moved to Accenture as part of the outsourcing of RSA application support in 2004 and led the SAP Finance/Interface team through this period of change. Moving to the solution architect team in 2007 she was the lead technical resource for Accenture on the combined SAP Upgrade Project team in 2008 which involved SAP, RSA, Accenture, Experian,...More ›

Patrick Crampton-Thomas

Patrick is responsible for SCM, R&D and Purchasing solutions for SAP EMEA. Previously Patrick gained experience in a number of industries over 20+ years in supply chain management working for several software companies as well as logistics operational experience in Retail and 3PL sectors for companies including M&S and Asda....More ›

Paul Jackson

Paul used to work for one of SAP’s first customers, then moved to work with an SAP Service Partner, representing them globally in methodology discussions with SAP. After providing field experience to SAP developments of ASAP and ValueSAP Paul was engaged by SAP in the early development of Solution Manager and later joined SAP in 2002. Working with SAP he has delivered advice, support and knowledge transfer to SAP customers and partners on using AcceleratedSAP Roadmaps and the Solution Manager platform – leading to the delivery of efficient and controlled implementation projects/programmes and visible Solution Information for solution applicat...More ›

Paul Misere

Investment adviser at Rabobank Treasury Analyst, Treasury Manager and now Manager Order-to-Cash & Treasury at Medtronic. Professional in Treasury, Cash Application and Bank reconciliation processes and solutions in a shared services environment. Involved in European SAP and Commissionaire transition projects. ...More ›

Paul Muir

Paul has worked for Manchester City Council for over 20 years with a background in Accountancy, Systems Development, Project Management and SAP Implementation. Paul implemented Purchase Cards into Manchester and managed the programme for a number of years. He has spent the last three years working in SAP Business Support and recently project managed the implementation of XiBuy, which is the software that manages the Purchase Card programme. This product is fully integrated with SAP....More ›

Paul Phillips

Paul is the British Gas Residential Test Manager at Centrica. He is an IT professional with 17+ years experience in the utilities sector holding both PRINCE2 & ITIL qualifications. In recent years, he worked as the non-functional test manager for legacy migration of Gas/Electric accounts to the worlds largest SAP-ISU Billing system. Paul has successfully delivered key SAP/Siebel initiatives to improve testing quality and focus within BGR (Test Automation, QA & TDMS for SAP-ISU). ...More ›

Pete Steer

Pete has been with Zurich for 37 years and after the early part of his career in the Sales Admin part of the Life business, he moved to HR where he has been involved with all aspects of managing Zurich’s Shared Service Payroll and Benefits area. More recently he has also headed up Zurich’s UK Recruitment Operations. During this time, he has seen many changes of HR and Payroll Systems including in 2000 managing 3 legacy HR and Payroll Systems onto SAP HR. Pete has been instrumental in driving forward the development of SAP for ESS and MSS and also in implementing and administering a very comprehensive Flexible Benefit offering for employees. T...More ›

Peter Mulder

Peter Mulder has been working with ERP Software for small businesses since 1995 where he was involved in the implementation and support of ERP software. In addition he designed and delivered training to consultants enabling them to become successful implementers. Since joining SAP in 2007, he has focused on SAP Business One licensing, training, certification and partner enablement....More ›

Peter Whitehurst

Having held a number of senior roles in SSL International including Head of Audit, Group Projects Director, and Group IT Director, Peter Whitehurst has successfully implemented SAP globally as a global transformation project. Delivering on time and to budget, Peter has been pivotal in ensuring that SSL’s consumer and healthcare businesses continue to deliver high value visible results with SAP ERP, AFS, and the newer NetWeaver technologies including mobile, portals and composite applications....More ›

Phil Mapley

Phil Mapley is a Solution Architect in the Atos Origin SAP practice.
His background in engineering and IT has given him over 20 years’ experience of building Supply Chain solutions including several ground breaking APO and PLM implementations. He was instrumental in the development of SAP’s PP-PI functionality.
His current role has particular responsibility for Manufacturing solutions in the UK Centre of Expertise for Consumer Packaged Goods (CoE CPG) within the global “Maximise Manufacturing Together” (MMT) program.
Atos Origin’s “Maximise Manufacturing Together” (MMT) programme is designed to help manufacturing companies consolidate i...More ›

Phil Nilson

Based in Newcastle, Phil works in HMRC’s Business Customer Unit. As part of the Employer Team, his role involves working with employers, their representatives and the payroll software industry to improve the services HMRC provides. A significant part of this role involves informing customers of changes and Phil is now a regular speaker on tax, NICs and other employer responsibilities at many payroll conferences. This role earned him the Strathearn Lifetime Achievement Award at PAY magazine’s 2007 awards ceremony and, in June 2009, Phil was voted the most influential person in payroll in a poll conducted by Payroll World magazine...More ›

Philip Mugglestone

Philip Mugglestone is Director of Solution Marketing with the Enterprise Performance Management team at SAP BusinessObjects with a primary focus on financial consolidation and reporting. He has 20 years of experience in performance management and enterprise business intelligence, including the implementation of financial consolidation and management reporting solutions at several large organizations....More ›

Richard Good

Richard Good is the SAP Programme Manager for Capita Plc, with responsibility for the group’s SAP development, implementation and business process improvement. Richard has ten years experience in ERP systems management, implementation and development....More ›

Rodney Andrews

Rodney has 10 years experience in SAP audit, security, and controls design. He has worked for KPMG and PwC since 1995 in audit, consulting, and service development roles. He has worked with over 40 clients on various aspects of SAP controls and security and helped major clients to achieve SOX compliance in their SAP implementations. Over the last 3 Years he has worked with several clients implementing, integrating and supporting SAP Access Controls solutions. More recently Rodney has worked with clients on potential strategies for SAP process control, looking at a wide range of applications from better management of compliance, through contro...More ›

Roland van der Breukelen

Roland drives the business development of the SAP NetWeaver platform and the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in the UK & Ireland.
Since joining SAP in 2001 Roland has been driving adoption of the SAP NetWeaver Platform across the EMEA region with particular focus on the areas of integration, master data management and now more recently Business Process Management. ...More ›

Romano Kowalczyk

Romano has worked at Premier Foods for 11 years and has held various positions in the ISC division. In his current role as ISC Account Manager he is the business’ primary point of contact for all ISC related services, and is responsible in managing the relationship between IS, the business and third parties and to ensure the business and IS are aligned....More ›

Russell Seddon

Russell is an experienced project and programme manager with an IT technical background covering both applications development and infrastructure. He has successfully delivered a number of difficult and challenging projects in the UK financial sector covering banking and settlement and the logistics and management of banknotes....More ›

Scott McKenzie

Having spent all my working career at Headstock Distribution Ltd, I have been involved in the creation of an internal IT Department migrated from a third party support system. I was a key decision maker in the decision to implement B1 and am now solely in charge of the day to day support and development of the B1 product....More ›

Shashi Sharma

As a senior, certified Business Intelligence consultant within SAP Consulting, Shashi has focused for the past seven years helping customers maximise their return on their SAP investment. Whether as a trusted advisor, design authority or technical architect, Shashi’s ability to translate technical solutions to business scenarios and deliver customer value has resulted in him working across numerous industry sectors. Currently leading the BI team in one of SAP’s largest UK engagements, Shashi also finds time to deliver classroom training and act as the UK “Pioneer” roadmap champion ...More ›

Simon Harkins

Simon has over 20 years experience working at British Gas and is currently Test Manager at British Gas Residential. Having worked in a number of roles within the Business and IS, he has a rounded view of the company. Simon has successful led the functional testing of the British Gas Residential SAP ISU Billing System upgrade from ISU4.64 to ERP6.0.
He is Prince 2 qualified and a Certified Scrum Master. ...More ›

Simon Landau

Simon Landau has worked in the steel industry for over 30 years in IT and business change roles. He currently has the role of managing the exploitation of Corporate business intelligence focusing on the wealth of data in SAP that can be used as information for effective decision making and efficient reporting....More ›

Simon Stokes

Simon Stokes is an Enterprise Architect working for CSC in the United Kingdom. He has extensive SAP experience including taking the Lead Solution Architect role on some major SAP projects in the areas of work and asset management, including the use of mobile technology. Simon joined CSC in 2001 after spending 11 years in the Oil industry working in IT Management and the implementation of SAP based projects....More ›

Stephen Coxsell

I have been at Yorkshire Water for 24 years and have been involved with SAP for 10 years including the original implementation in 2000. I have operated in a number of roles since then with my existing responsibilities being as a Solutions Architect across the SAP system. Last year I was Project Manager for the upgrade to ECC6.0....More ›

Stephen Wood

Stephen has worked in the business consulting and customer management field for over a decade. His breadth of expertise has developed through operation experience, and more recently through his work as an industry analyst and a consultant with Big 4 and boutique consultancies. Through his consulting work, Stephen has developed a sound understanding of best practice and transformational tactics in a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, finance and the public sector. He has also been involved as a consulting “expert witness” in a number of corporate transactions and valuations. ...More ›

Stuart Worthington

Stuart is a Principal Business Consultant with over 10 years consulting experience, on both SAP-related and non-SAP assignments. He has led Business Design and Strategic Review assignments, working with Senior Managers and Executives in the Retail, Government, Communications, Education, Charity, Legal and Entertainment sectors. He has significant experience of the Business Transformation lifecycle, from initial analysis through to organizational transition. His key areas of expertise are situation assessment, change planning, organisational change management and Value Analysis, with a particular focus on Customer Centres of Expertise (CCoE)....More ›

Sue Farrow

Sue has lead SAP training teams and designed SAP training solutions within Xerox for over 10 years. She has unparalleled experience of the many training and change approaches that can be applied to complex SAP implementation programmes, in particular those that involve significant business transformation and cover large, dispersed end user audiences across multiple countries, cultures and languages....More ›

Sven Denecken

Sven Denecken is Vice President and Head of Sustainability Co-Innovation at SAP.
In this role, Sven Denecken is assessing customer and market requirements, defining the Co-Innovation approach to new developments with customers and partners.
Sven Denecken’s experience working with customers in the Sustainability area since 1990, network to SAP´s field organization and partners allows him to bring client issues and challenges directly into the software development process, assuring that the next generation software solutions address customer requirements and help customers gain competitive advantage. Closely cooperating with the respective ...More ›

Thomas Stratmann

For 4 years Thomas has been developing SAP’s BPO and business service provider partnering in the context of market development and Go-to-market activities, working extensively with NorthgateArinso.
Prior to this he was working in the BPO Territory Sales Organisation in EMEA having joined SAP in 2004 from Siebel Systems where he had focused on several Sales & Marketing positions.
Thomas holds a masters degree in economics. ...More ›

Tim Monson

Works for Varian Medical Systems who use SAP PS module to support project accounting / cost control and to manage demand for project resources....More ›

Tom Canning

Tom Canning is the Worldwide Vice President of Flexera Software’s license optimization business. For over 5 years, Tom has helped numerous Fortune 500 and mid-size companies improve their process and visibility around SAP licensing to ensure a clear repeatable processes for optimal license management....More ›

Tony Parker

Tony has collated over 20 years experience in the IT sector in the capacity of Business Consulting....More ›

Walter Kiesinger

Endress+Hauser has small branch offices dedicated to sales spread all over the world. For them, SAP Business One is the strategic solution to conduct business transactions – Business One is in use in 16 different locations worldwide including Ireland. All installations are centrally hosted and are available to each individual branch office as Citrix solution. AddOns in SAP Business One 2004 and 2005 had a high demand in memory requirements. Consequently, a growing amount of memory availability was needed for central hosting. coresuite framework helped lower the memory requirements of Endress+Hauser InfoServe and made it much easier to program...More ›