SAP reshuffles executive board as members Scott Russell, Julia White to depart
Key Takeaways
⇨ SAP executive board members Scott Russell and Julia White will depart the company on 31 August
⇨ Russell was President of SAP Asia Pacific and Japan before joining the board in 2021
⇨ The Marketing and Solutions board area, which White led, will be dissolved
SAP has announced that executive board members Scott Russell – who previously served as President of SAP Asia Pacific and Japan – and Julia White will be departing the company at the end of August.
Russell, an Australian who joined the global business as Executive Board Member for Customer Success in 2021, joined SAP in 2010. White, who led the Marketing and Solutions board area, joined SAP from Microsoft in 2021 after being recruited directly to the SAP Board.
SAP said it is actively looking for Russell’s replacement, with CEO Christian Klein assuming interim responsibility for the sales organisation. SAP will also dissolve the Marketing and Solutions board area, with product marketing teams becoming more closely aligned with product teams in the engineering organisations led by Muhammad Alam and Juergen Mueller.
Speaking on the change, Klein said, “Scott and Julia have contributed significantly to SAP’s successful business transition in the cloud and our leadership in Business AI. I’m pleased to take this opportunity to thank them for their unwavering dedication to our clients and partners, and to join the Supervisory Board in wishing them all the best for the future.”
Pekka Ala-Pietilä, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE, added, “In the context of SAP’s ongoing successful cloud transformation, the SAP Supervisory Board believes now is the moment to embark on the next era of growth. We thank Scott Russell and Julia White for their significant accomplishments and wish them all the best in their future endeavors.”
The board level changes will go into effect on 1 September, and SAP expects these changes will “accelerate the company’s transformation and enhance their focus on Cloud ERP Suite and AI”.
Mastering SAP has contacted SAP’s Australia and New Zealand business but did not comment further.
The announcement comes after SAP reported its Q2 financial results, reporting a 33 percent increase in cloud revenue in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region in its second quarter of 2024 off of deals enabled by Business AI.
