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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