WALLDORF, Germany, March 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The SAP
Supervisory Board (NYSE: SAP) recommends Diane Greene, Chief Executive Officer of Google
Cloud, Google LLC, USA, and member
of the board of directors, Alphabet, Inc., as candidate for
by-election to the SAP Supervisory Board. Shareholders of SAP will
vote on the by-election of Ms. Greene at the Annual General Meeting
of Shareholders on May 17, 2018, in
Mannheim, Germany. Ms. Greene is
proposed as successor to Prof. Klaus
Wucherer, who has decided to resign from the Board effective
as of the close of this year's Annual General Meeting.
"I would like to thank Prof. Wucherer for his many years of
service to SAP," said Prof. Hasso
Plattner, Chairmain of the SAP Supervisory Board. "With
Diane Greene, we hope to gain a further independent expert on our
Board. Her software industry expertise and insight will be a great
asset."
This candidate has been nominated in addition to the following
previously announced candidates for by-elections to the SAP
Supervisory Board:
- Aicha Evans, Senior Vice
President and Chief Strategy Officer of Intel Corporation,
USA, who was appointed SAP
Supervisory Board member by Mannheim District Court in June 2017
- Dr. Friederike Rotsch, Group
General Counsel and Head of Group Legal & Compliance of Merck
KGaA, who is proposed to replace Prof. Wilhelm Haarmann
- Gerhard Oswald, former Executive
Board member, SAP, who is proposed to replace Prof. Anja Feldmann from January 1, 2019, after the expiration of the
statutory two-year cooling-off period for prior Executive Board
members
With these candidates, the SAP Supervisory Board recommends
personalities with deep competencies aligned with the Profile of
Skills and Expertise prepared by the Supervisory Board and reduces
the average tenure on the Board. Furthermore, with the nomination
of Mr. Gerhard Oswald, a
well-respected expert with deep knowledge of SAP, the Supervisory
Board aims to ensure that this knowledge remains available to the
Board.
Details on the candidates for the by-elections to the SAP
Supervisory Board will be published in early April 2018 together with the invitation to this
year's Annual General Meeting.
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