The SAP SE supervisory board nominated Pekka Ala-Pietilä as a new member of the supervisory board and intended Ala-Pietilä as the chairman, Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, to provide. Ala-Pietilä should and should also be proposed for election at the next general meeting for a two-year term, if he is elected, the role as the future chairman of the Supervisory Board.
SAP and Dr. HC Punit Renjen decided to separate themselves from mutual agreement. The reason was the different ideas about the role as the future chairman of the supervisory board, for which Punit Renjen was intended. Punit Renjen has therefore decided to put his mandate on the SAP supervisory board with effect on the end of the SAP Annual General Meeting on May 15, 2024.
Pekka Ala-Pietilä (67) has an impressive success story with regard to European innovations and technology and is excellently set up to support the further successful transformation of the SAP. He was President of the Nokia Corporation from 1999 to 2005 and a member of the SAP supervisory board from 2002 to 2021. In addition, he was chairman of the high-ranking group of experts for artificial intelligence of the EU Commission between 2018 and 2020, as well as chairman of Finland’s program for artificial intelligence from 2017 to 2019. Technologies, a Dutch multinational company for location intelligence solutions. Ala-Pietilä has an honorary doctorate in technology from Tampere University of Technology and in science from Aalto University School of Business. He lives in Helsinki.
“After two decades at the head of the SAP SE, the company with which I have been connected since the very beginning, it is particularly important to me to successfully pass on the management staff and thus consolidate the ongoing success of the SAP,” said Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, who has been chairman of the supervisory board since 2003. “With Pekka Ala-Pietilä we have found a leadership personality who not only has a profound understanding of our industry and the complexity of the European SE-Governance, but also an important ally in many crucial moments of the SAP. At this point I would like to express my deeply felt thanks for his work and his contribution. I am confident that the SAP supervisory board is in the best hands.
Pekka Ala-Pietilä said: “I would like to thank the SAP and Hasso Plattner supervisory board for the opportunity to accompany this dynamic European technology company again for such a crucial time. Thanks to the great people at SAP, the company has been setting the global standard in the field of company technology for over 50 years and is also a pioneer when it comes to developing and using reliable, reliable and responsible AI solutions for companies Based on the way of changing business processes.
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