Stefan Steinle
Executive Vice President, Head of Customer Support

Stefan Steinle is responsible for managing SAP’s Customer Support organization.

Customer Support is responsible for providing support to all of SAP’s customers. The organization guides SAP’s customers through their individual digital transformations, providing the platform for end-to-end application lifecycle management and business data transformation. To safeguard every single customer throughout their journey, Customer Support delivers a unified support experience across all SAP applications and a world-class service for mission-critical processes and critical events. Finally, Customer Support collaborates closely with engineering units to support development and quality improvement. With approximately 6,000 experts, Customer Support has distributed teams across the globe – with locations in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

Stefan is vocal about transformation that ‘sticks’ – bringing cultural transformation in lockstep with digital transformation. He firmly believes that groundbreaking innovation comes from passionate people empowered by leaders investing in diverse and inclusive teams that are working in an exciting environment.

Stefan joined SAP in 2000. Before heading Customer Support, he was COO & Head of Strategy of the SAP Product Engineering board unit, powering SAP’s engineering teams to deliver the world’s #1 business software. Prior roles were Head of SAP Globalization Services, COO of SAP’s Global Business Operations board area, and also served former executive board member Gerhard Oswald as Executive Board Assistant, Chief of Staff, and Head of Operations. In his first ten years at SAP, Stefan worked as a consultant, overseeing large implementation projects at multinational companies.

Stefan looks back on over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He holds a diploma in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Mohammed Ajouz
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Technical Support

Mohammed joined SAP in the summer of 2017 as Global Head of Technical Support. He is an experienced services executive, with more than 30 years’ background leading enterprise support organizations. His background includes the leadership of various enterprise support organizations at Oracle, as well as the successful transformation of support from on-premise to cloud at Skillsoft, where he led the customer support, as well as the cloud, operations organizations. Mohammed is a progressive thought-leader with an accomplishment record of providing effective, multi-faceted, innovative support to global enterprise customers.

In his current role, Mohammed is leading the way in a transformational era of change and growth to deliver the SAP's Real-Time Support for the digital enterprise with an award-winning support experience that delights customers. Always. He is responsible for leading and providing overall direction for Technical Support, ensuring customer and employee success while successfully executing on the overall SAP strategy. He lives the SAP leadership principles while providing ongoing coaching to the Techncal Support leadership team as a high performing team.

Jens Bernotat
Head of Strategy and Ecosystem Management

Jens joined SAP in 2007 as Vice President in the Corporate Strategy Group. Here, he has guided a series of high impact strategic programs for SAP, with a focus on support strategy, portfolio and offering & commercial design. From 2011 onwards, Jens was driving Strategy for Maintenance Go-To-Market, where he designed commercial transformation programs from on-premise to Cloud and multiple new support offerings. Jens then led SAP's global Support Portfolio from 2017 to 2020.

As Head of Strategy and Ecosystem Management for Customer Support, Jens is responsible for driving SAP's overall maintenance strategy, defining and coordinating maintenance phases, end dates and corresponding offerings. He orchestrates the overall Customer Support strategy development in close alignment with all Customer Support units. Jens is also representing CSI as the biggest stakeholder for SAPs overall Support strategy and Support portfolio development, in close collaboration with Customer Success and Corporate Portfolio. Jens is in the lead for Support Ecosystem management, defining the effective setup of how partners deliver support to our customers.

Vivian Luechau-de la Roche
Senior Vice President, Global Head of SAP Mission Control Center & Mission-Critical Support

As Global head of SAP Mission-Control Center and Mission-Critical Support within Customer Support, Vivian Lüchau-de la Roche is responsible for SAP customers’ businesses across the globe in situations, ensuring the continuity of those businesses through global escalation management. Vivian and her team maintain an unwavering commitment to providing extraordinary support while recognizing the unique demands of each customer in a critical situation.

Prior to her current role, she served 5 years as the head of Digital Business Services in Latin America, where she was responsible for multi-functional Services and Support organizations, before which she was the head of SAP Active Global Support (AGS) for Latin America for 3 years.

Vivian is an experienced dynamic leader having served SAP in several Services and Support functions in Germany, Australia, North America and Latin America. She has been instrumental in the foundation of SAPs’ very successful customer-oriented support programs such as Safeguarding and SAP MaxAttention.

Vivian’s experience extends over 30 years in the IT customer industry, primarily in customer Sales and Support functions. Prior to SAP, Vivian worked for SAP implementation and technology partners where she developed her technical expertise. Vivian is a respected thought leader in SAP and a passionate advocate for workplace inclusivity and diversity.

Becky Doyle
Global Vice President and Head of Technical Support – SuccessFactors HCM

Becky Doyle is Global Vice President and Head of the Technical Support – SuccessFactors HCM team which focuses on delivering end-to-end technical support for our customers. The team is constantly focused on innovations and improvements to enhance the customer experience by working closely with SAP SuccessFactors Product Management, Development and Operations to prevent the need to ever open a support case. Becky is working to expand the channels that customers can use to access our Support Engineers and documentation, expanding self-service functionality and improving the product documentation to make it available within the product and in a simple way to consume. The team is passionate about delivering a great customer experience with every interaction.

Becky joined SAP in 2012 through SAPs acquisition of Ariba.  She joined Ariba in 2005 working in the Human Resources Department and moved to Customer Support/IT in 2010. Throughout her tenure at SAP/Ariba, Becky has held various roles including training, project management and leadership. She is passionate about the customer experience and empowering customers get the most value from their SAP solutions.

Becky has her Bachelor’s Degree from Pennsylvania State University and is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR). She is based in Galway, Ireland.

Marc Thier
Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Experience & Solutions

Marc Thier joined SAP in 1993. He held various positions in customer support and led the regional technology Center of Excellence in EMEA before taking a global role as Senior Vice President for SAP Solution Manager.

Marc leads solution management and rollout to customers and partners for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) on premise and cloud. Products for ALM include SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Solution Manager, Focused Solutions. Marc received his degree in business education and computer science in 1993 at the University of Mannheim.

Wieland Schreiner
Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Experience & Solutions

As head of CXS Development, Wieland Schreiner is responsible for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products covering all SAP cloud solutions as well as on-premise-solutions. These ALM products include SAP Cloud ALM, Built-In Support, Service Delivery Platform and SAP Solution Manager. In addition, the AI Innovation Platform including automation via AI & ML for SAP Services and Support is under his leadership.

Wieland has more than 25 years’ professional experience in consulting and development. He has held various roles and management positions in application development and software engineering. With his deep understanding of supply chain execution and manufacturing processes, paired with a strong technology background, particularly in the area of in-memory computing, he plays a key role in supporting customers on their digital journey.

Wieland studied mathematics, physics, and applied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern.

Cornelius Clauser
Head of Productivity Consulting Group

Cornelius Clauser currently serves as Head of Productivity Consulting Group (PCG), an internal improvement team. The team drives strategic, often cross-area, programs like the SAP Transformation Navigator, which has won the Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award. Previous SAP roles include Chief Process Officer (CPO)of the SAP Group. He joined SAP in 2011 initially in charge of the Productivity & LEAN team that drove the Agile implementation in the SAP-wide idea-to-market process.

Prior to SAP, he spent nine years with Porsche Consulting where he served as partner in charge of Porsche and Volkswagen-internal improvements as well as e.g. machinery, healthcare, knowledge worker productivity or office concepts.

Before he worked five years with McKinsey & Company primarily in the automotive industry working for OEMs and suppliers in all triad regions.

He holds a masters degree in computer science and an MBA, attained in Mannheim, Los Angeles and Manila.

Carsten Schwarz
Chief Operating Officer

Carsten drives and orchestrates strategy execution, business transformation and general business steering across Customer Support in close alignment with its leadership team. He ensures measurable customer value and business outcomes, drives process excellence and supports the Head of Customer Support in daily operations. Carsten is further involved in a program leading role in SAP’s company-wide transformation towards a best run cloud company at scale.

Before joining Customer Support, Carsten has led SAP’s transformation towards an enterprise-wide analytics strategy and the formation of a central analytics function and worked as COO for the then founded Intelligent Data & Analytics unit at SAP.

Earlier in his career, Carsten held various leadership positions in Finance and Administration at SAP on both global and regional levels, including Chief Controlling Officer for one of SAP’s major board areas.

Bente Vollan
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Technical Support – Concur

Bente joined SAP in May 2017 as Global Head of Technical Support for SAP Concur. With over 30 years of experience, she has a proven track record of excellence in building and scaling global support organizations for industry-leading software companies. At SAP Concur, Tableau, Visio, and Aldus, she championed support for large multi-national Enterprise and Small Medium Business (SMB) customers for both cloud and on-premise products.

Bente is passionate about providing a consistently positive, end-to-end customer and employee experience with the understanding that the two are inseparable. She is focused on simplifying and improving the customer support experience, so it is as easy and intuitive as possible for customers to get their problem resolved while ensuring that every interaction is a positive one. 

Bente fosters an innovative and collaborative culture of continuous improvement where team members understand that every interaction contributes to our customers’ success.  

Rohan Patel
Head of Technical Support – Procurement

The Technical Support – Procurement team supports SAP Intelligent Spend and Business Network product areas including the Ariba and Fieldglass product suites. They assist both buyer and supplier customers across SAP Ariba’s applications and the Ariba Network, as well as partner, buyer, supplier, and contingent worker customers of SAP Fieldglass. The team focuses on creating an extraordinary customer experience by empowering them with the right information, by leveraging data driven proactive support, and by focusing on a quality engagement every time.

Rohan has successfully led global support units for many years with a people-driven strategy, built around innovation and transformation His key focus is to drive a delightful customer support experience, based on customer feedback.