SAP Chief Operating Officer Christian Klein to Join Executive Board
October 12 2017 - 10:01AM
Dow Jones News
By Sonia Amaral Rohter
SAP SE (SAP.XE) on Thursday appointed Chief Operating Officer
Christian Klein to its executive board to lead global business
operations as it seeks to further its digital transformation and
transition into a cloud company.
Mr. Klein, who is 37, will retain his role as COO once he joins
the board on Jan. 1, 2018.
Mr. Klein joined the company as a student in 1999 and has served
as COO since April 2016. He focuses on controlling, optimizing
internal processes, and developing an automated and integrated IT
infrastructure.
As global business operations head, he will work toward
simplifying and modernizing SAP's core business processes and
aligning them with its cloud and platform strategy.
Mr. Klein said he looked forward to driving SAP's digital
transformation, which he said will benefit the company's clients as
they also undergo digitalization.
SAP's supervisory board also extended executive board member
Michael Kleinemeier's contract to Dec. 31, 2019. His contract was
due to expire at the end of October 2018. Mr. Kleinemeier oversees
digital business services.
Write to Sonia Amaral Rohter at
sonia.amaralrohter@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 12, 2017 09:46 ET (13:46 GMT)
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