Clas Neumann

Clas Neumann

Clas Neumann (born June 30, 1967 in Konstanz ) was President of the Indian SAP Laboratory in Bangalore and today heads the SAP laboratories worldwide.

Neumann studied business administration with a focus on China at the East Asia Institute at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences and, after completing his studies, helped set up the SAP Lab in India. He was Co-Director in Bangalore since 2000, Vice-President from 2005, as such responsible for the development of SAP software for medium-sized businesses and was President of the SAP Lab Bangalore until 2008. Since 2008 Senior Vice President & Global Head - SAP Labs Network. Neumann was President of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in 2011/12 and has been India Spokesman in the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business (APA) since November 2012 .

In 2005 Clas Neumann was awarded the main prize “Career of the Year” by Junge Karriere magazine .

Publications

• Southwest China Economic Area: China's Gateway to Southeast Asia? (Clas Neumann, 1996)
• Investment Guide India (various authors, 2006)
• Manuel Vermeer , Clas Neumann: Practical Guide India. How to successfully manage your India business. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-8349-0535-6 .
• Managing Innovation from the Land of Ideas and Talent, The 10-Year Story of SAP Labs India (Clas Neumann and Jayaram Srinivasan, Springer Verlag, 2009, 260 p., Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-540-89282-3 )
• Ulrich Bäumer et al .: Globalization of Professional Services. Springer, Berlin 2012