In an aim to strengthen its cloud presence in the Asia Pacific and Japan region, SAP has appointed Greg Harbor as regional vice president, cloud sales and go-to-market, SAP Asia Pacific Japan.
This new appointment supports SAP’s cloud strategy, which focuses on cloud solutions for four lines of business to manage people, money, customers and suppliers.
Harbor will be responsible for the go-to-market and sales delivery of the SAP cloud solutions portfolio covering all customer and financial line of business solutions, excluding Human Capital Management solutions.
As a member of the global cloud sales leadership team, he will be accountable for the development of the regional growth strategy and associated execution to ensure the expansion of the SAP cloud business in India, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North Asia, Japan and China.
“Playing a leadership role in cloud across the Asia Pacific and Japan region is an outstanding opportunity. Having spent close to a billion dollars on acquisitions of leading cloud companies like SuccessFactors and Ariba to complement our existing cloud services, SAP is extremely well positioned to drive success,” said Harbor.
“Cloud solutions are a vital ingredient to our customer success and our own growth aspirations, and APJ is a significant part of this growth expectation.”
Harbor’s previous role was as vice president of On-Demand Solutions for SAP Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and was a member of the SAP ANZ senior leadership team.
He will continue looking after SAP’s cloud sales operations in the ANZ region until a replacement is found.
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