Chairman of the Supervisory Board, SAP SE, Walldorf,
Germany
Education
1968 Diploma in Communications Engineering, Technical Academy of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
1990 Honorary Doctor, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
1994 Honorary Professor, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Current Memberships
Membership of supervisory boards and comparable bodies of publicly listed companies: None
Membership of supervisory boards and comparable supervisory bodies of non-public companies: None
Alignment with profile of skills and expertise
Innovation and R&D
Software industry
Supervision, monitoring and corporate governance
Strategy
Career
1968 - 1972 IBM Deutschland, Mannheim, Germany - Software developer
1972
Establishment of SAP as "SAP Systemanalyse und Programm-
entwicklung GbR", Weinheim, Germany, together with four
additional founders
1988 - 1997 SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany - Deputy Chairman of the Executive
Board
1997 - 2003
SAP AG, Walldorf, Germany - CEO
Since 1998
Hasso Plattner Institute for Software System Technology (HPI) at
the University of Potsdam, Germany - Teaching activity as a
professor for enterprise software systems
Since 2003
SAP AG and SAP SE, Walldorf, Germany - Chairman of the
Supervisory Board, Chief Software Advisor on the basis of a
consultancy agreement with SAP SE (no compensation paid for
this role)
Classification: Independent
There are no relevant personal or business relations to SAP SE or its group companies, the corporate bodies of SAP SE or a shareholder directly or indirectly holding more than 10% of the voting shares in SAP SE. Prof. Dr. Plattner is not a controlling shareholder of SAP SE. His tenure is by no means accompanied by a long cooperation between him as chairman of the Supervisory Board and the members of the Executive Board, as most Executive Board members have been so for less than five years. Furthermore, the opinion of the shareholders' representatives on the Supervisory Board is based on the fact that Hasso Plattner is financially independent from his Supervisory Board activities at SAP. In addition, Hasso Plattner, due to his substantial shareholding in SAP equalling approx. 6% of the capital stock, continues to have a strong vested interest in the Supervisory Board's critical and unbiased review of and advice to the Executive Board.
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SAP SE (Systeme Anwendungen Produkte) is the world's leader in the development and marketing of integrated software packages. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of software packages (85.9%): software for financial management, human resource management, customer relations, purchasing, etc. The group also provides maintenance services;
- consulting (14.1%): mainly consulting and training services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Germany (14.6%), Europe-Middle East-Africa (27.8%), the United States (35%), Americas (8%), Japan (4%) and Asia/Pacific (10.6%).
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