In my view, facing these challenges together with the new executive team, Léo Apotheker is an ideal CEO and thus my preferred successor for Henning Kagermann.”
Kagermann and Apotheker will continue their close collaboration of the previous years to focus the company on continued profitable growth and on providing innovative solutions to a growing market.
New Members Appointed to Executive Board: Effective July 1, 2008, new appointments to the executive board extend the company's top management to a team of ten. Erwin Gunst, Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe will bring their extensive software industry and customer-focused experience to the board.
McDermott joined SAP in 2002 to manage the Americas region. He successfully led the company's market growth in North America and Latin America over the past six years.
His purview was recently extended to oversee operations also in Asia Pacific and Japan. In the future, McDermott will have responsibility for all sales regions worldwide.
Snabe will have full development responsibility for SAP Business Suite and the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. He has been with the company for more than fifteen years, holding various management positions in sales and development, including managing director of the SAP Nordic region and general manager for industry solutions development globally.
Joining the executive board in the newly created position of chief operating officer(COO), Erwin Gunst will aim to further improve the company's operations and process efficiency.
A 20-year SAP veteran, Gunst currently serves as president of the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
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