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  • Carsten Hilker

    Mr. Hilker has been working in the field of financial and management accounting for 20+ years in various roles including development, consulting and product management. He is an advocate of financial excellence, enterprise optimization and profitable growth and has presented and published on the topic of Finance and Management Accounting in numerous occasions. He has served as a global solution owner for SAP Central Finance with GTM responsibility across all markets, channels, and related products. His past and current professional affiliations ASUG, IMA, CAM-I, the Resource Consumption Accounting Institute (RCA-I), Society of Cost Management (SCM) and the International Controller Association (ICV).

  • Akash Kumar

    Akash Kumar is an author, speaker, and techie for emerging and disruptive technology topics with a focus on Intelligent Enterprise. He is currently working as Solution Architect with HCL and supporting new products, services, and offerings on the Industry Cloud. He has supported multiple customers in digital transformation by creating business use cases and technology roadmaps, migrating from old to new technology such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Analytics, implementing new business model on artificial intelligence/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, and enabling business process simplification with Celonis and task automation with robotic process automation. He is the author of PlanViz: Improving SAP HANA Performance (SAP Press) and Building and Extending SAP HANA Live Views (SAP Press). He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and holds numerous certifications, including Scrum Master, Agile, IoT, Devops, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Activate, and SAP S/4HANA.

  • Clifford Seckman
    Expert since 2022

    I have been an independent SAP Technical Consultant and president of Virginia Software Group, Inc. for 30 years. I was chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of ASUG from 2005 to 2020. I am currently a founding partner and the President/CEO of TECH Plus International, an SAP partner company based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and supporting SAP sales and implementations in the Southeast Asia region.

  • Brad Slocumb
    Expert since 2023

    Brad Slocumb is the Business Owner of the Record-to-Report workstream for The Home Depot’s finance transformation.  The Home Depot’s transformation is a multi-year initiative centered around the implementation of SAP S/4 HANA. To date, the R2R team has implemented, Central Finance, Group Reporting, Central Payments, and Treasury.