By Eleanor Reader
SAP has announced that former SuccessFactors CEO and head of its cloud operations, Lars Dalgaard, will leave the company on 1 June as part of a mass overhaul of its organisational structure.
Dalgaard’s exit comes less than two years after SuccessFactors was acquired. He will become an “investor” while continuing to “stay closely involved in the future development of SAP’s cloud strategy”, the company said in a statement.
SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe will replace him as cloud business sponsors on the executive board.
The simplified organisational structure has created a single development organisation that oversees innovation across SAP, to be lead by Vishal Sikka, member of the executive board of SAP AG, Technology and Innovation.
All SAP development and custom development leaders will report directly to Sikka as of 1 June.
“By creating one single development organisation under Vishal’s leadership, we will dramatically accelerate the speed of these [HANA and cloud] innovations,” said McDermott and Snabe.
In more SAP personnel changes, the company will consolidate its cloud go-to-market under the leadership of Bob Calderoni, CEO of Ariba, president of Global Cloud Operations and member of the Global Managing Board of SAP.
SAP executive board member Gerhard Oswald will take responsibility for a new Scale, Quality and Support board area and will oversee SAP’s recently announced HANA Enterprise Cloud service.
Luisa Delgado, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Human Resources, and Labor Relations Director will leave the company to become the CEO of an unspecified company.
Executive board member Werner Brandt will take on the Executive Board responsibility for Human Resources and become the Labor Relations Director in Germany in addition to his role as chief financial officer of SAP AG.
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