Vita

Bankkaufmann

Diplom wirtschaftsinformatiker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

PhD in Marketing Science (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany)

Since 2001 at SAP SE

Starting as Assistant to the Board Member for Development

Various Management Positions in Development and Innovation

Part of the so called AP/A1S Program which results in the first Cloud solution of SAP: Business ByDesign

Now

Senior Director in Technology & Innovation Board Area (Jürgen Müller)

Part of the Strategy & Operations Team

Main tasks: Driving Platform business Strategies at SAP; Content Owner of the SAP Business challenge Network

Since 2014

Dietmar Hopp Foundation Professorship of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of ApplieD Sciences, Karlsruhe and Academic Director of the [X]Lab

Guest Lecturer at MIT/Sloan School of Management

Founder and Business Angel of various international startups

Research

[X] Lab - Experimental Lab für die Entwicklung neuer Geschäftsmodelle

Platform Economy and Platform Business Models