Executive committee

Dirk Kruse is Managing Director and CEO at SAP Fioneer. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s direction and growth by providing strategic, financial, and operational leadership. Dirk has more than 20 years of professional experience as an executive in the technology and financial services industry. Having held various leadership positions within software, cloud sales and consulting, he has gained thorough expertise and a broad business network across all service industries. Throughout his career, he has worked with major international banks and insurance companies to support their transformation journey through strategic IT initiatives. Prior to joining SAP Fioneer, Dirk served as member of the Management Board and Head of Service Industries of SAP Germany SE & Co. KG. His responsibilities included the areas of sales, presales, value engineering and services for Banking, Insurance, Media, Professional Services, Telco as well as Travel & Transportation.

Mitch Bouchard builds out the customer success organizations in North and South America, including sales, presales and services. Mitch joined SAP in 2015 from IBM where he spent 18 years in the public sector and financial services. During his tenure at SAP, Mitch has led the financial services team in Canada and helped banking, insurance and capital market clients reduce complexity, improve efficiency and grow by leveraging SAP solutions that range from core banking and insurance solutions to cloud computing and big data analytics.

Charlie Platt is responsible for SAP Fioneer’s business in the region, serving  clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Charlie has been working in the financial services technology industry for more than 20 years with multiple regional and global management roles. His early career was in algorithmic trading platforms, then he moved to core banking before he joined SAP to run the financial services team in the UK. Prior to that, he was responsible for the global relationship with some of SAP's most strategic customers - banks, as well as other globally recognized brands.

Marc Schwarz takes responsibility for the end-to-end success of our clients in the MEE region. Marc is a senior consulting executive. He worked with international banks and insurance companies since 1998 as a trusted advisor for business and IT. His main focus was to make the businesses of his clients run efficiently and reliably by realizing the value of standard software. Prior to joining SAP Fioneer, Marc managed the service business for the financial services industry and other industries in Germany at SAP.

Dirk Gierlach is responsible for the client’s success of our implementation services, our team’s career growth and satisfaction and ultimately for the profit and loss of the services business in the JAPAC region. Dirk is a senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in the industry. He has been a senior partner with Accenture and advising C-Level clients on major investments and transformations as well as leading large teams through complex change programs. He was a transformation director working for the board of ANZ Banking Group and has been a senior leader of the SAP services business in Asia-Pacific and Japan. Dirk brings a broad set of business experience and senior executive relationships in the region and globally into SAP Fioneer.

Reto Sager supports customers in the highly dynamic financial services industries sector to digitally transform their businesses by moving towards innovative and client-centric business models. Together with his teams, he continuously improves the methodology of delivering such strategic projects to optimize their value for customers. Reto brings over 20 years of broad international experience in establishing, developing, and leading global and regional software-related consultancy businesses. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Reto has held several global, regional, and local leadership positions in the financial services industry (FSI) business area of SAP SE.

Anna Flach leads Marketing & Communications at SAP Fioneer, overseeing activities across client segments globally to drive awareness, engagement and revenue. She brings a wealth of experience in financial services and technology. Prior to SAP Fioneer, Anna held roles at large financial institutions such as Commerzbank, BNP Paribas and Allianz. She is equally known to be an integral part of the London fintech scene, having worked in several blockchain and cloud infrastructure startups, where she built and fine-tuned brands and teams. She was nominated for leading change in the fintech ecosystem on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2018 and 2019 by Innovate Finance and as one of the '20 Women to Watch in Telco and Tech' in 2020 by Capacity Media.

Sakis Tassoudis is responsible for global operations, the partner organization, go-to-market strategies and strategic support of growth initiatives for customer success at SAP Fioneer. Sakis is well acquainted with the financial services industry, having spent the last 18 years at SAP in various executive roles. He started at SAP from solution management, went to strategic customer roles and served the SAP EMEA south region as the general manager for the services industries. Starting his career as a banker, Sakis experienced startup and entrepreneurship programs around the world and was leading teams in global transformation programs for financial services institutions and C-Level advisory.

Patrick Schmid is Managing Director at SAP Fioneer. He is responsible for growing the company organically and inorganically, establishing the digital and core insurance portfolio and further advancing the company’s cloud vision. Patrick is an experienced senior executive and management consultant, bringing 14 years in financial services industries (FSI) IT. Patrick joins SAP Fioneer from DEDIQ, where he was crucial in establishing the strategic partnership with SAP. Prior to this, Patrick co-led the transformation of one of DEDIQ’s FSI portfolio companies. Before joining DEDIQ, Patrick spent 8 years at McKinsey & Co., including roles as lead architect in many large scale FSI transformations, and three years as CIO of a major bank in Asia.

Dr. Christoph Rösch is responsible for SAP Fioneer’s digital and core banking product portfolio as well as its embedded finance business. Christoph has more than 15 years of experience in financial services as a senior executive at CHECK24, where he was responsible for fintech and insuretech businesses, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Co..

Frank Hammann is shaping SAP Fioneer’s 'Office of the CFO' solution. Frank is an experienced management consultant and transformation manager with more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industries. Prior to joining SAP Fioneer, Frank worked at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg where he was responsible for the finance and digital transformation.

Oliver Kewes is responsible for the mergers and acquisitions at SAP Fioneer, as well as the business unit Insurance Payment and Incentives. Before joining SAP Fioneer, he was the co-founder, co-CEO and spokesman of the board at ConVista, where he helped grow the company to over €150m in revenue with over 1,000 people and 17 global subsidiaries.

Ingolf Zies is in charge of SAP Fioneer’s overall strategy. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Ingo was a Partner at Bain & Company leading the IT practice in Germany and Switzerland. In total Ingo worked 20 years in strategy consulting at Bain and BCG, with the focus on digital transformation that he led both in financial services and other industries – an expertise which he will leverage into SAP Fioneer's future positioning.

Marc Derungs is responsible for all product management and product support activities to ensure sustainable growth of SAP Fioneer with the entire product portfolio and customer success. This role is the natural continuation of Marc’s position as Chief Product Officer of financial services industries at SAP. Marc has more than 20 years of professional experience in executive and leadership positions in product development, innovation, and technology for financial services and energy and natural resources industries.

Jan-Erik Stelz started his career in 2007 as a developer at SAP and has served in multiple management and development functions. He has been responsible for the S/4HANA Product Strategy, was part of the core team that helped to create SAP’s current REINVENT Strategy as well as the industry cloud strategy. In 2019 Jan-Erik led an SAP product engineering wide transformation program to drive the Cloud ERP definition and to renew the development processes and culture. He served as the Head of Industry Product Strategy and Portfolio Management across all 25 industries at SAP, driving a significant cloud shift of the portfolio.

Holger Grünwald is responsible for the design driven aspects of the company such as the user experience of our products, customer centric co-creation and design in general. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Holger was the Managing Director of Neugelb Studios at Commerzbank AG where he was accountable for advising the group on service design strategies and developing digital products for the banking experience of the future.

Marcin Krawiec is responsible for the design, implementation and delivery of SaaS solutions in financial services. Marcin has more than 20 years of professional experience as a solution architect in the financial services industry and portfolio owner for financial services industries at SAP Enterprise Cloud Services. Prior to joining SAP Fioneer, Marcin served as the Head of SAP Cloud for Banking at SAP SE.

Erik Lüngen has been in the software industry for more than 20 years. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Erik held various leadership roles at SAP focusing on Cloud Transition and Cloud Mindset. His last position was Head of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Product Delivery Unit, where he ran an international organization handling cloud operations and site reliability engineering for all Cloud Services provided by the S/4HANA Organization. He started his Cloud Journey as a Product Manager for CRM in SAP Business ByDesign.

Corinna Stöhr is responsible for corporate development. She oversees the company’s people strategy and is in charge of achieving organizational excellence. Corinna is an experienced management consultant and corporate development manager in the financial services industry. Corinna joined SAP Fioneer from DEDIQ where she played a major role in establishing the operational readiness of SAP Fioneer for the go live. Prior to joining DEDIQ, Corinna worked in the corporate development department of UBS and spent more than four years with McKinsey & Co., where she advised leading banks and insurance companies.

Katja Steinberg is responsible for accounting, tax, cash management and HR operations. She is an experienced senior professional bringing 15 years in finance. She held senior and management roles in one of the “Big Four” companies where she worked as an auditor including obtaining certificates as an auditor and tax advisor. Prior to joining SAP Fioneer Katja was Head of Finance for the ConVista Group where she successfully built an international finance organization, developed processes and integrated add-ons to the group.

Jan leads the Controlling team at SAP Fioneer and is responsible for business planning, internal steering and management reporting. He has experience in corporate finance and investment management having worked for a leading US investment bank and in private equity. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Jan worked for DEDIQ, playing a key role in establishing the strategic partnership with SAP and building SAP Fioneer.

Aris Paskopulos leads the legal team at SAP Fioneer. Aris’ team is responsible for any legal matters in all relevant markets and aspects of the business. A fully qualified German lawyer, Aris has gained extensive experience as in-house counsel in various international payment, banking, and tech companies. Before joining SAP Fioneer, Aris worked as Senior Legal Counsel at Solarisbank in Berlin.

Oliver Kewes is responsible for the mergers and acquisitions at SAP Fioneer, as well as the business unit Insurance Payment and Incentives. Before joining SAP Fioneer, he was the co-founder, co-CEO and spokesman of the board at ConVista, where he helped grow the company to over €150m in revenue with over 1,000 people and 17 global subsidiaries.