Quentin Clark, SAP

Quentin Clark is the chief business officer at SAP and member of the Global Managing Board of SAP SE. He is responsible for defining the direction for SAP and for advancing the company’s business strategy. In this role, he heads corporate strategy, corporate development, partner strategy and development, and portfolio strategy activities.

Prior to this role, he served as chief technology officer and was responsible for driving SAP's technology vision and leading the company in its efforts to build and innovate world-class products that positively impact people, organizations, and customers. He was also the head of the platform division responsible for the development and product management of the SAP HANA platform, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, as well as the technology and analytics portfolios. With more than 20 years of enterprise experience, Quentin is instrumental in developing and driving product strategy, including the definition, planning, and engineering of software and technology. He also led successful industry-disruptive product launches across organizations. Since joining SAP in November 2014, Clark has contributed extensively to positioning SAP as a cloud platform leader.

Prior to joining SAP, Clark was at Microsoft Corporation where he held various leadership roles. In his last role, he was corporate vice president of data systems and platforms, responsible for design and delivery of all of Microsoft’s data products.

Clark holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science and physics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the United States.