Christian Klein (Manager)

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Christian Klein (born May 4, 1980 in Mühlhausen , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis ) is a German manager and has been CEO of SAP SE since October 11, 2019 .

Life

Christian Klein comes from Kraichgau and grew up with a sister in the family of his parents. His father is the CDU state politician Karl Klein , who lives in Mühlhausen .

Klein obtained a diploma in international business administration from the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Mannheim . He joined SAP as a student in 1999. Initially, he worked in various positions in the fields of Active Global Support Operations , Services Operations and Global Controlling . From 2011 to 2012 he was the Chief Financial Officer of SAP SuccessFactors in California.

Klein was appointed Chief Controlling Officer in 2014 and Chief Operating Officer on April 1, 2016 . On January 1, 2018, he joined the Executive Board of SAP and took over the newly created Global Business Operations division. On the executive board, Klein pushed for closer integration of all company areas and a high-performance IT organization in order to achieve digital transformation within SAP as well. At the beginning of 2019 he took over the area of ​​global SAP development and delivery of core applications, especially S / 4HANA , under the title "The Intelligent Enterprise" from the previous board member Bernd Leukert .

On October 11, 2019, together with Jennifer Morgan , he succeeded the surprisingly resigned SAP CEO Bill McDermott as joint board spokesman . With the announcement of Morgan's departure on April 20, 2020, the brief phase of dual leadership ended and Klein has been managing the company alone since then. He took up his current position at the age of 39. He is the youngest head of a DAX company.

Christian Klein is married and has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Klein is a player in 1.FC Mühlhausen fussball-im-verein.de, as seen on December 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Co-boss Jennifer Morgan leaves SAP. In: The time . April 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Article by Bernd Freytag from October 11, 2019 in the FAZ: New SAP tip in portrait. The youngest man and the first woman
  4. ↑ Article by Berthold Wesseler from October 12, 2017 at IT-Zoom: SAP with a new board area
  5. ↑ Article by Martin Bayer in Cio of February 21, 2019: Board member Bernd Leukert surprisingly resigns
  6. ↑ SAP separates from co-boss Jennifer Morgan. In: Der Spiegel. April 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Christian Klein: Sole SAP boss: In record time to the top of a Dax group. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH May 4th 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse