SAP SE announced two changes to its Executive Board to build on the company's success ensuring customers benefit from the cloud in the era of AI. SAP's dynamic cloud growth over the past three years, coupled with the development of a modular cloud suite, has set the stage for the next phase of innovation and impact. Starting April 1, 2024, a new Board area will be created to accelerate cloud growth and adoption.

This Board area, led by Thomas Saueressig, will be focused on ensuring customers' ability to embrace continuous innovation in the cloud. At the same time, Muhammad Alam will join the company's Executive Board, succeeding Thomas Saueressig and assuming responsibility for SAP's product engineering. Effective April 1, 2024, SAP will put the power of a new dedicated Board area called Customer Services & Delivery behind the company's drive to support customers in their cloud transformation journey, accelerate innovation adoption and further increase customer satisfaction.

The new Board area will help ensure that customers are able to swiftly adopt and consume innovation, maximize the benefits of the cloud and realize the value of SAP's integrated portfolio. Saueressig, who joined the Executive Board in 2019, will head the new Board area, building on his success in transforming the SAP Product Engineering organization, re-focusing the portfolio and delivering continuous innovation over the past five years. Succeeding Saueressig and assuming responsibility for SAP's product engineering, Alam will join the company's Executive Board, effective April 1, 2024.

Alam joined SAP on January 31, 2022, as president and chief product officer for the Intelligent Spend and Business Network. In this role, he leads the engineering and design teams focused on procurement, travel and expense, external workforce management and SAP Business Network. Prior to SAP, Alam worked for 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate vice president of product and engineering for Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications.