Speakers - SAP UK & Ireland User Group

Alan Bowling

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 ›

Jim Hagemann Snabe

Jim Hagemann Snabe was appointed Co-CEO on February 7, 2010. He also leads the Business Solutions & Technology organization, responsible for product development of large enterprise solutions, SME solutions, the technology platform and SAP Business Objects. Snabe joined SAP in 1990 and has been a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG since July 1, 2008.
Snabe has held various management roles in consulting, sales, and development. His career at SAP began as a consultant with SAP Denmark, where he was quickly promoted to lead the local consulting practice. Snabe briefly departed SAP in 1994 for a position as practice leader at IBM Denma...More ›

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax is best known for her comedy and celebrity interviews. She was at the Royal Shakespeare Company for 5 years and was Script Editor on “Absolutely Fabulous”. However, for the past 3 years Ruby has been studying for an MSc in Psychotherapy at Regent’s College and is also studying Neuroscience at UCL. Since graduating she has begun giving talks to senior executives in major companies about how our pathologies can affect our communication and effectiveness at work. Subjects have covered “The Importance of Openness”, “The Stress of Change”, “How We Get Our Own Way” and “Authenticity”. Ruby is also coachi...More ›

Sahar Hashemi

Named by H.M. The Queen ‘Pioneer to the life of the Nation’ Named by World Economic Forum Davos ‘Young Global Leader’

Her book ‘Anyone Can Do It’ has become the 2nd highest selling book ever published in the UK on entrepreneurship after Richard Branson's book- according to Nielsen Bookscan.
Lawyer turned entrepreneur

Founded Coffee Republic, the Uk’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. Giving up highly professional jobs, she a lawyer in London and he an investment...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 ›

Alexander Ilg

Alexander Ilg is the Managing Director of msc mobile and first came into contact with mobile software in 1997 when he implemented a mobile software solution for Daimler. He has worked with SAP’s mobile software since 2002 and has been involved in numerous mobile projects, bringing more than 100,000 mobile users live. Alexander was part of the team at SAP that implemented the SAP NetWeaver Mobile Time and Travel and Mobile Asset Management solutions. In 2006, he founded msc mobile. He is strongly interested in the usability and user-friendliness of mobile solutions....More ›

Alexis Lynch

5 years HR SAP experience both as an end user and in support role. Areas supported include HR & Payroll, Learning Solution and Performance Management....More ›

Amanda Byrne

Amanda has worked in a local authority for over 25 years and is currently employed by Worcestershire County Council's Financial Services Directorate. Amanda has been involved with the development and support of SAP Financials since its initial implementation in 2001. More recently she has been involved in the implementation of two new Company Codes for Pension Fund Administration and SAP in Bank Account Schools. ...More ›

Anne Breadmore

Anne has been with SAP for 15 years as a Solution Architect working with customers in a variety of industries including Telco, Transport, Professional Services and Public Sector. For the last 3 years she has been focussing on the flagship of SAP’s On-Demand portfolio - Business ByDesign....More ›

Anne Wignall

Since December 2008, I have been responsible to support and enhance the 30,000+ employees CAPITA payroll (GB, Ireland and India), Expenses, ESS, MSS. I have also implemented the new SAP Entreprise Learning Management portal.

I joined CAPITA after 12 years+ of SAP HR and Payroll CAPITA experience acquired in many industry sectors. ...More ›

Ben Crow

Ben has worked in the business software industry for over 13 years, cutting his teeth with some of the leading finance software vendors including SAP. Ben has had his ‘sleeves rolled up’ having been directly involved in the sales and implementation of finance systems to hundreds of companies of all shapes and sizes. He joined iDocuments in 2009 as the ‘cloud computing’ revolution started to take hold, and since then has helped growing businesses adopt simple ‘add on’ web and mobile applications which improve their workflow processes, control costs and stop re-keying without needing to replace their existing...More ›

Bill Lang

Bill has worked for SAP (and Business Objects before that) for 6 years as a Technical Architect. During that time he has worked in the Business Intelligence, Information Management and latterly the Enterprise Performance Management service lines. He has specialised in integration especially with SAP Netweaver. Prior to joining BusinessObjects he was with a number of customers so has experience from both sides of the fence....More ›

Brian Egles

Brian worked for BOC/Linde for 24 years most recently as process architect for supply processes including 14 years working with SAP. A former chairman of the SAP UK supply chain management special interest group and a keen advocate of “getting the process right” from design through to implementation and training. Brian’s passion is using games (such as “the beer game”) to train project teams and end users....More ›

Carl Streatfield

SAP Business User group presales consultant, originating from BusinessObjects Carl works in the BusinessUser group concentrating on SAP integration to BusinessObjects toolsets along with the SAAS offerings of BI Ondemand and SAP Streamwork. ...More ›

Chandan A C

Project Lead of Payroll GB localization Solution with 6 years experience in SAP HCM, SAP PI , SAP ByD products...More ›

Chris Johnston

Chris has worked in security and audit positions for over 12 years and is currently a GRC Solution Principal at SAP. He left Deloitte in 2005 to join the startup company called Virsa Systems which was subsequently acquired by the ERP giant and has enjoyed success in several GRC related roles since....More ›

Chris Kernaghan

Chris has worked in SAP for 10 years, he specialises in Upgrades and Migrations of SAP systems. He has been working with SAP and Amazon for the past year....More ›

Christoph Kull

Before his current position Christoph worked as Head of Enterprise management Applications at Business Development in EMEA, Sales Director GRC at SAP AG, project manager at SAP. Christoph has a BBA degree in Information Systems from the University of Washington, USA and an MBA degree from Graduate School of Pforzheim in Germany. Christoph is married and has 2 children, Christoph is a keen golf and tennis player. ...More ›

Clair Walton

Clair has over 11 years experience with SAP, leading teams in End User environments, SI implementations and Application Management. Originally an Order to Cash specialist, Clair has been working with Solution Manager since 2003 and now focuses on increasing awareness and use of Solution Manager as well as working with customers on implementing their individual Solution Manager roadmaps....More ›

Colin Mackenzie

Colin has worked on HR systems for 9 years, and SAP HR for 4. His primary focus is on interfacing and transferring data between SAP HR and legacy systems....More ›

Colin Sharp

Colin Sharp, Director of Business User and Platform, is responsible for the continued growth and success of SAP BusinessObjects solutions for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC), Business Intelligence (BI) and Information Management (IM) together with Netweaver Platform and Ecosystem Solutions.

Colin has over 19 years’ experience in the application software industry where he has held a number of senior sales and sales leadership ...More ›

Craig Ellis

IT professional with 20 years of IT experience including 9 years implementing SAP within manufacturing, supply chain and retail environments....More ›

Darren Crowder

Darren Crowder is a Business Development Manager within the SAP Solutions Business Development Technology Centre of Excellence Team for Europe, Middle East, African and India. In this role, Darren is responsible for the Business User and Technology Platform products - ranging from NetWeaver Business Process Management to Sybase Unwired Platform. Darren is also the technical lead for Service Oriented Architecture and SAP’s Cloud Computing Strategy within EMEAI. Darren joined SAP in June 2007. Prior to SAP, Darren was Principal Technical Lead and Solution Architect for BEA Systems EMEA, responsible for Service Oriented Architecture / Next...More ›

Darren Ford

As the UK & Ireland Solution Principal for HCM Darren is responsible for activities such as customer & partner engagement, business development & product roadmap strategy. Darren has been with SAP for 9 years. ...More ›

David Greenfield

David has 18 years of IT experience, concentrating on value-add development. He has managed a wide variety of projects for Burton’s Foods – recently SAPGRC....More ›

David Kennedy

Dawn Cattermole

Dawn Cattermole, SAP Functional Manager, Application Services, Pearson Shared Services: Dawn is customer facing with a diverse skill set spanning technology integration with business needs, project and system management. She works closely with business users and core IT, bridging the gap between the two, delivering progressive technology to the business to solve their issues, deliver against their requirements, so enabling the business and support it to meet its goals and objectives. ...More ›

Derek Mizak

Derek has16 years of experience in IT Management across multiple countries and regions. He has experience from both sides as a vendor and a customer. Development and implementation of IT strategy. Oversee portfolio of IT projects: IT infrastructure lifecycle management, implementation and roll-out of SAP.

Interests: Knowledge Management, IT Strategy, Fishing ...More ›

Doug Kingsley

Doug’s 18 year career in IT ranges from consultancy roles in companies such as Atos Origin through to end user companies such as his current employer, Brakes. Since 2000, his main focus has been on BW starting with versions as early as 1.2B and has led him to his current role as BW Architect for Brakes....More ›

Dr. Ralf Baumert

Since finishing his PhD in Chemistry in 1997 Dr. Ralf Baumert started his business career as a Senior Engineer for Email and Collaborative Solutions at debis Systemhaus in Germany. With the merger of Deutsche Telekom and debis Baumert put more and more focus on Sales and Consulting Enterprise Mobility. Actually he is responsible to present and acquire the complete Mobile Enterprise Portfolio to national and international Business Customers....More ›

Duncan Jones

Duncan primarily contributes to Forrester’s offerings for Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals. He is a leading expert on ePurchasing technologies, such as eProcurement, eSourcing, and electronic invoice presentment and payment (EIPP) and advises clients on their application strategy in this area, how to make good choices between alternative solution providers, and how to get the best results from implementation. Duncan also covers software pricing & licensing, and helps clients negotiate advantageous software license and maintenance agreements.

Duncan has over 20 years experience of using enterprise applications...More ›

Gareth Watts

For most of the last 20 years, Gareth has run European operations for software companies offering soltuions in the manufacturing, retail, financial and public sector....More ›

Geoff Segar

Geoff Segar has been designing and delivering successful SAP training programmes for large, blue chip organisations across Europe and North America for 20 years. Having worked in both SAP Training and Change Management consultancy for a decade and subsequently as in-house Training Manager for a number of large multi-national companies, Geoff has a wealth of experience to share and unique insight into to what drives success in the field of SAP Training....More ›

Graham Wiffen

Graham is responsible for the change and development of the SAP systems at Electrocomponents (RS Components). In addition to supporting a significant business change agenda he has overseen the European roll out of a SAP R/3 and CRM template for all core business processes. Graham champions the use of SOA design principles and has recently introduced SAP CE into the RS system landscape. Prior to his current role he has worked in various Sales and Customer Service change management roles at RS ....More ›

Henny Claessens

Henny Claessens has over 30 years of IT experience in the private as well as the public sector; with extensive expertise in domains like e.g. Software Evaluations, Information Management, Business Intelligence, IT Architecture and IT Governance. Since 1997 he has been active in the SAP domain. Currently he is working at Maastricht University as overall SAP Teamlead and SAP Business Integration Consultant. He also is serving as a Board member of VNSG (Dutch SAP Users’ Group) where he is in charge of influencing and international affairs and he is a member of SUGEN (SAP User Group Executive Network)....More ›

Hitesh Babhania

Hitesh is a qualified Accountant and the Industry Principal for the Public Sector. He is the industry advocate, responsible for communicating the value of SAP solutions across all sub verticals within Public Sector. His key activities include thought leadership, business development and solutions go to market strategies. Hitesh has been with SAP for 12 years holding a number of positions including EMEA Industry Director for Business User and the Solution Principal for Office of the CFO....More ›

Ian Scott

Ian Scott has worked at SAP for 14 years, always in the Supply chain area. He has worked his way down from doing real implementation work to now being Head of Supply Chain for the UK and is a great fan of SAP's SCM products.

Prior to life at SAP, employment was provided by; a warehousing and distribution specialist software house; a large Third party logistics company; and running a distribution operation for an automotive components supplier. His free-time is taken up with motorcycling, scuba diving and fighting a rearguard action against the weeds in the garden. ...More ›

Iwona Jagiello

Iwona Jagiello is the Global SAP Support manager for the NSG Group, responsible for the support of the Group wide SAP solutions.

Iwona has over 10 years experience in the design, development and management of SAP solutions.

One of the recent projects lead by Iwona – the sales order front end solution was a Bronze Winner of the SAP Quality Awards in the New Business Application Implementation category in UKI.

Before joining the SAP team in NSG Iwona worked in Pilkington Poland as an export coordinator. ...More ›

James Neal

James has spent over a decade working with organisations to ensure they achieve optimum performance from their applications through every stage of the lifecycle...More ›

James Venables

James has 7 years experience of lead roles on SAP programmes and is currently responsible for Data and Security at the SAP HCM (re)deployment at Royal Mail Group....More ›

James Willis

James works for SAP (UK) Ltd as a Presales Business Consultant in ERP Financials.

Over the past 15 years he has implemented SAP Financials on many SAP projects covering a number of different industry sectors. Before becoming an SAP Financial Consultant James qualified as an accountant whilst working in industry. ...More ›

Jayne Chattey

Jayne has worked for Zurich for just over 10 years. She started her time within the HR Payroll and Benefits Team as a Payroll Specialist and then in 2008 moved to the Payroll Controls Team where she now works more closely with the running of the Zurich payrolls for UK, Isle of Man and Jersey dealing with over 7000 employees. Jayne main responsibilities are Tax Year End for all payroll’s, P11D’s, T9’s, 3rd Party Payments, Control and Exception Reporting and the testing and implementing of HRSP’s and system changes. More recently Jayne has been playing a key role in the migrating of the Endsleigh payroll to SAP HR. Jayne...More ›

Jayne Maughan

An experienced Business Analyst, Process Design Manager and Project Manager with experience of applying technology to improve business effectiveness by the implementation of Information Systems...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 Brennan

John has over 15 years experience in project managing and selling SAP BI solutions. He now works with clients developing and implementing BI strategies....More ›

John Hammann

John Hammann is an Industry Principal at SAP (UK) Ltd. Responsible for supporting the UK field teams and customers across Manufacturing Industries. He has international IT and Industrial experience....More ›

Jonathan Gurney

Head of Finance and IT for DASCOM Europe GmbH, a printer manufacturing and distribution company whose parent company is based in China. DASCOM Europe was established in June 2009. Currently acting as Executive Sponsor for the implementation of SAP Business by Design, SAP’s new cloud-based ERP solution....More ›

Julian Bond

Julian Bond is Head of ICT for Hillarys Blinds, the UK’s largest retailer of made-to-measure blinds, shutters and awnings. He has worked with ERP systems in IT management for UK and global enterprises for the last 20 years, predominantly in manufacturing and supply chain sectors, but most recently retail. Julian is a Chartered Engineer with an MBA....More ›

Julian McCormick

Julian is the GMPTE Project Controls Manager / System Developer specialising in SAP PS and Oracle Primavera. He has over 13 years experience in business management and Programme/Project control working predominently in large infrastructure capital project environments for both private and public sectors....More ›

Julie Loughlin

Lifetime involvement of customer focussed business interactions. Held the position of UK Customer Services & Distribution Manager, and possesses an in depth business process knowledge in the Vaccines vertical.. Currently 10 years with Novartis, 5 years ERP Sales & Distribution business user experience, subsequently SD Business Analyst, with the last 2 years as global ERP training manager with Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics...More ›

Karthikeya Reddy K

An SAP certified consultant with over 6 years experience on HCM area. Started with country version UK, moved into Ireland and Public Sector (India)....More ›

Keith Singer

After 25 years in the financial software development, Keith has spent the last 5 years at Thomson Reuters Legal working on a variety of implementation projects....More ›

Kevin Goulding

Kevin has worked in audit and risk for past 15 yrs and also presently acts as Group IT auditor....More ›

Laurence Leyden

Laurence Leyden is Director, Transaction Banking for SAP in EMEA within the Financial Services Line of Business. He has been at SAP for 9 years.

His role is to work with financial services clients who are looking to replace their core banking systems to meet their evolving business requirements. He has been extensively involved in many SAP transaction banking evaluations. Laurence regularly speaks at industry events and is often quoted in industry publications. Laurence is also regularly involved in SAP strategy for Financial Services and has been involved with many new innovative areas such as corporate to bank connectivity.
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Louise Stevenson

Louise is a Principal Business Consultant with extensive experience within the retail industry. She has spent the last 11 years helping retailers implement and drive business benefit from SAP solutions....More ›

Luke Metcalfe

Luke Metcalfe has been using Crystal Reports for around five years, working in a small management information reporting team for an adult social care department. He also participated in the development of an Xcelsius reporting dashboard. He is an expert user of Microsoft Excel and is familiar with querying Microsoft SQL Server....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 a number of 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, automation is key to our way forward. ...More ›

Marc Delaet

Marc has been at DSM for more than 12 years and has been driving the Corporate eCommerce strategy for the last 3 years, although has had involvement in the strategy, direction and implementation since the late 1990’s on business unit level as well. Having worked as a sales manager at DSM for 5 years, Marc does have a sound understanding of DSM’s markets and customer’s expectations.
His personal objective is to ensure that DSM’s eCommerce strategy adds maximum value to the business and that the company is regarded by the customer community, as a ‘No hassle company’. ...More ›

Mark Gallacher

Mark Gallacheris the financial controller for COFELY Limited in the UK. He has worked in Finance for 14 years and has 9 years experience in the GDF Suez group. He has been involved in 3 different I.T Intergration processes including the introduction of SAP into the Industrial and Energy Services division of COFELY....More ›

Mark Lewis

Mark has been with Indigo Lighthouse for 9 years starting as an ABAP developer and managing IT for the past 2 years. In 2002, Mark was part of a team that implemented SAP 4.6c with CRM 2 and later in 2007, CRM 2 was replaced with CRM 4. In 2009, with consultancy from Chelford, they upgraded from 4.6c to ECC 6.0 with great success. This provided Indigo Lighthouse with the foundations when they decided to replace CRM 4 with a bespoke Contact Centre application on NetWeaver utilising consultancy from Weaveability and then ultimately Self Service functionality to the stores and consumers they support....More ›

Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis established Beta Group in 1987 and with the help of SAP Business One, has successfully grown the company into a service & maintenance business that also manufactures its own range of air filters.

In order to improve their use of SAP Martin joined the SAP User Group in 2007 eventually becoming the B1 SIG Chairman. Martin was then invited to join the SUG board in June 2010 to add some vital SME experience. ...More ›

Martyn Peggie

Martyn is responsible for HR Systems, HR Management Information and Employee Reward in the University of Stirling. Additionally he acts as an internal Project Manager on a number of organisational change programmes....More ›

Matthew Towey

Matt began his career as an information governance professional at the Information Commissioner’s Office, assessing complaints focussed on instances of non-compliance with the Data Protection Act. In 2007 he relocated from Manchester to London to take up the post of Information Governance Adviser within the General Counsel function of Transport for London. Matt is responsible for co-ordinating TfL’s information governance training and awareness programme; overseeing the organisation’s response to ‘data breach’ incidents; and providing specialist advice to colleagues on a range of data protection and freedom of in...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 a...More ›

Michaela Lyburn

Michaela has worked with SAP software across the last 12 years and has extensive experience of delivering business critical technology programmes across ERP, procurement, substitution, pricing and comprehensive supply chains. Her down to earth approach delivers no nonsense results which add differentiating value in customer and retail service....More ›

Mike Dean

Mike has played a critical role in the maintenance of the User Group since joining in 1993 and becoming Treasurer and a Director in 1995. He was Project Manager of the initial Cadbury Limited Finance and Procurement Project and has since held various senior management positions with SAP implementation partners. He is also a continuing member of the Conference sub-committee. Mike is now Vice Chairman of the User Group and director responsible for international collaboration as the SUGEN UK representative....More ›

Mike Lewis

SAP are the world’s leading business applications software provider – with more than 1,500 utilities in over 70 countries using SAP applications to manage their businesses. SAP produce standardized applications specifically tailored for the Utilities sector to manage Customer, Asset and Business Support business processes. More than 3 billion utility bills are produced and managed by SAP systems. Mike is SAP’s Utilities Industry Director – he joined the Utilities practice at SAP UK & Ireland in 1998, and has an intimate knowledge of customer challenges in the sector. Over this time Mike has worked with the majority...More ›

Munish Handa

Munish Handa is a Solutions Architect and a Project Management Professional (PMP Certified). He is also an SAP – HR professional (SAP portal certified), possessing over ten years of SAP HR experience, employed with Shell International based in Netherlands.

In the past 7 years with Shell he has worked on different assignments in implementing a single SAP HR solution across the operating countries. He has held lead, team lead, solutions design architect, project management and Security Architect roles.

He is currently working as Solutions Architect within Global Functions Architectural team looking into solutions desig...More ›

Neil Dable

Neil has been working at Linklaters for 12 years and manages the SAP CCC/CoE. He was the stream lead of the data migration resources during their SAP installation 7 years ago and has experience of both basis and BW.

He has helped drive a number of changes of strategic importance to Linklaters within their SAP landscape, such as monitoring, leveraging the use of Enterprise Support and an ability for the firm to respond quickly to changes demanded by the business. Recent months have seen upgrades to both ERP6.0 and BI7.0 and the implementation of Business Objects. ...More ›

Norman Black

Norman Black is Industry Director for Insurance Solutions, working in the Business Development function of SAP EMEA. His role is to position SAP’s strategy for the Insurance Sector and to work on key strategic engagements. Prior to joining SAP, Norman spent 13 years with IBM’s Insurance Solutions Group. He was involved in major redevelopment projects in UK insurance companies, as well as leading the development of complex product configuration systems for insurance clients in Japan, the USA and South Africa....More ›

Patrick Warner

Patrick Warner is the Global Director of Financial and Controlling Systems at Chemtura Corporation. He leads the SAP FICO team at this global Specialty Chemical Company.
Patrick has been involved in SAP implementations, mainly working in the FICO area, since 1997, working in roles in Team Management, Project Management and as an internal functional consultant. ...More ›

Paul Barker

Paul Barker works in the UK NetWeaver and Business User team, he joined BusinessObjects in 1994 and subsequently SAP as part of the aqusition in 2008....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...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 has spent the last four years working in SAP Business Support, bringing in many improvements to their SAP solution and most recently project managed the implementation of the Pivot mobile solution...More ›

Paul Rogers

Paul Rogers is a long standing member of the Sapphire team and has been with the company for 12 years. He is responsible for business development and account management. Paul started working with SAP Business One when it was launched in 2002 and has been instrumental in helping Sapphire become SAP’s number one partner focused on SAP Business One in the EMEA region.

In 1998 Paul graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a BSc Hons degree. Outside work Paul enjoys socialising, diving and golf. ...More ›

Paul Viney

iQlink was formed by Paul Viney in 2004, to bring innovative SAP-centric mobile and integration solutions to market in the UK. Paul has over 16 years experience working with SAP Software, 8 of which were spent at SAP UK in a number of senior management positions. These roles were followed by the set up and development of a successful services company specialising in SAP implementation in mid-size companies, prior to forming iQlink....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 ›

Raimondo Saiu

Raimondo gained wide experience at Unisys as Order-to-Billing Manager in Shared Services Centres in both EMEA and Asia-Pacific, and as Credit Manager at Cascade Europe. In 2006, Raimondo joined former SigmaKalon as Credit Manager, which involved implementing AutoBank for SAP and SAP FSCM Collections & Dispute Management. Since the acquisition by PPG Industries, Raimondo has also implemented AutoBank Next Generation for the subsidiaries using Oracle....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 ›

Richard Neale

Richard Neale is Head of Business Development at SAP UK & Ireland. Prior to this, he worked in a number of product marketing roles for more than 13 years at Business Objects and has been part of the Business Intelligence market for about 18 years. Before his move into the IT industry, Richard was an environmental scientist....More ›

Richard Symes

A decade of supply chain experience on SAP R/3, including development of capable to promise that verifies material and capacity availability through the entire sequence of bill of material levels before confirming delivery dates to customers. MSc degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield. Global SAP manager at Scapa responsible for Europe and North America....More ›

Roland Slagman

Sam Dudley

Sam started his SAP career as an ABAP developer for several years before leading technical teams and then managing cross functional teams. During this period he has mentored a number of developers, engaged contractors and worked with more than three offshore SI partners. Sam has a keen eye on quality and the delivery of operationally robust solutions. He uses a number of SAP tools to check quality at all stages of the development lifecycle and post go live productive use...More ›

Santosh Takoor

Santosh is a Chartered Account who trained with KPMG before joining UBS Warburg as Financial Controller. Over the last 12 years he has assumed a number of roles within SAP’s UK, EMEA and Global organisations. His focus has always been the delivery of financial excellence through technology: a perfect fit with the EPM & GRC portfolio....More ›

Steffen Schwark

Steffen leads Bluefin Solutions' enterprise mobility practise helping clients to design and built industry leading mobile solutions....More ›

Stephen Read

Stephen Read was appointed Director of SME, SAP UKI in January 2009 and is responsible for the management of the SME team covering the entire portfolio of SAP SME solutions: SAP Business All-In-One; SAP Business One and SAP Business ByDesign. Stephen is responsible for driving growth in this sector and brings to this role more than 16 years’ experience in sales and marketing at UK and International levels with a proven track record in multi-channel and volume business models. Stephen joined SAP in April 2006 when he joined as Senior Director, Midsize Enterprise Partners, EMEA and was responsible for the indirect channel business within ...More ›

Steve Yates

Having been client side of an implementation and with 11 years experience in SAP within Warehouse and Distribution, Steve now runs a Netweaver consultancy. We deliver engaging eCommerce and Netweaver solutions to everyday business issues, leveraging the SAP landscape you have already invested in. eCommerce, Trade counters, Telesales systems, Banking integration and Mobile application development for Warehousing....More ›

Svetlana Kropp

Svetlana Kropp has been with SAP for nearly 5 years, working with customers and partners across a number of technologies and solutions. She is the UK Ramp-up owner and is responsible for successful introduction of all Ramp-up products in the UK with a specific focus on the upcoming SAP Business Suite 7 Innovations 2010....More ›

Timo Elliot

Timo Elliott is a 19-year veteran of SAP BusinessObjects, and has spent the last twenty years working with customers around the world on information strategy.

He works closely with SAP research and innovation centers around the world to evangelize new technology prototypes.

His popular BI Questions and SAPWeb20 blogs track innovation in analytics and social media, including topics such as augmented corporate reality, collaborative decision-making, and social network analysis.

His PowerPoint Twitter Tools lets presenters see and react to tweets in real time, embedded directly within their slides. A popular and engagi...More ›

Tom Ings

Tom Ings has held a number of roles in finance across a range of different industries. Most recently Tom has worked for a global multi-metals company (Nyrstar) in roles including Project team Leader (BPC), Business Analyst, Consolidation Accountant and Financial Accountant....More ›

Tony Smollett

Tony has over 20 years experience across a number of different roles and industries. Working in large well-know business such as Boots and Homebase. Tony has a strong background in all areas of IT, including customer systems, IS and infrastructure services. In his current role at Halfords, Tony has driven transformation across the systems, including taking the time and resource to build a clear test strategy for Halfords moving forward....More ›

Venkatesh “Venky” Seshadri

Venkatesh “Venky” Seshadri is part of the Accenture Software Team that specializes in well known software tools such as the Audit & Compliance Tool and the Clone & Test Tool particularly for SAP HCM Customers based out of Heidelberg. With over 25 years of Sales & Sales Management experience in Pan-European/Global roles with companies like IXOS (today Open Text) and significant business development experience in niche areas such as Product Information Management and Marketing Analytics, Venky’s responsibility is to drive adoption of the new and innovative Quick Document Builder solution across the SAP user community. Ve...More ›

Yann Stähli

Yann Stähli, born in Switzerland
Studied Business Administration in Windisch
Working since 2007 for coresystems as a Global Sales Manager ...More ›

Zahid Malik

Zahid is the BI Architect for L’Oreal UK with 6 years of experience with SAP BW/BI and 10+ years of SAP development/configuration in general...More ›