Title
Member of the Executive Board, Products & Innovation
Company
SAP AG

Dr. Vishal Sikka is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG leading all SAP products and innovation. Sikka has global responsibility for all product development and delivery globally. Sikka has led the development of SAP’s breakthrough in-memory platform, SAP HANA, and drives HANA as the foundation for SAP’s entire portfolio and its ecosystem of customers, partners and developers. Sikka authored "Timeless Software," which represents the renewal of products without disruption to customer environments and underpins SAP’s innovation strategy. Sikka holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University, and his experience includes research in artificial intelligence, intelligent systems and programming languages and models – at Stanford, at Xerox Palo Alto Labs, and as founder of two startup companies.