#executiveteam

I can’t help but notice that nearly all of the new senior executives hired in 2025 are white men and replacing or layering executives of South Asian descent. What’s going on?

Based on conversations with the Works Council, here are the top three actions that the executive board is personally invested in to mold SAP the way they want.

1. SAP is enhancing the Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) in Europe. This is tied directly to the new Performance Measurement rolled out in Europe. The underlying premise is to give more power to managers to fire whoever they want to. Just give a bad performance for three times in a row and your reports will be automatically on a PIP and susceptible to getting fired.
2. Leanix and Walkme is undergoing a major restructuring in 2026 Q1. They will be moved under Signavio management and there will be new positions created to accommodate for the larger teams. However, only candidates based in Walldorf or nearby areas will be considered for manager and manager of managers positions even if the team is based elsewhere. They already did this at Signavio and we have managers who get to freely travel a lot because they are based at the HQ while 95% of their reports are in Berlin or other areas. Long-term Leanix and Walkme employees will be gently encouraged to leave just as they did with the Signavio management.
3. No more layoffs in Germany in 2026. The rhetoric for teeth brushing will intensify at the end of Q1 when the stock price goes below 200€ at XETRA but the Works Council already has an agreement for no more layoffs in 2026. The point they conceded on was the average salary hike which will be 2% and stock options which will have a very low budget and will be focused on employees who undergo role changes (e.g. Signavio people leads who were DEI coaches but are now development managers). In 2026, the public health insurance is going up by almost 5–6% but the salaries will not. On the other hand, the executive board bonuses are planned to be more than 20 million for CK and similarly higher for other members.

It is not easy to lay off employees in Europe so the executive board has a simple strategy. Divide and conquer. Put employees against their managers and vice versa. Discriminate against employees in regions besides Walldorf and nearby areas so they are against employees in those regions and vice versa. Make board areas competitive against one another so they will fight for budget.

Employees are so busy fighting against one another and worrying about their jobs and paying the bills that no one will question the share buybacks and why so much money is given to the executive board as bonuses. And life will go on.

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year too.

I don’t care about executive drama or corporate talking points anymore. All I want to know is when the next round hits, because planning for survival is the only priority left.

Word is, Director level and up gave themselves a Christmas bonus this year quietly.. you know for all the hard work they did!

The strategy is simple, keep making $500 - $750 million a year profit. Make the employees and other assets sweat to enable the Execs to make millions and enjoy other perks. Employ weak Exec froends who are not capable, Come up with fantasy themes like Cloud Right, Technical Debt, AI, Rebranding, musical chairs to keep employees and investors on board. Rinse and repeat for years.

Welcome. Please understand how damaging and unqualified a chief product officer you have and make the right decision for the company to remove them as fast as you can. Previous leadership didn’t want to admit they made a bad decision and some of the damage being done is irreversible. Just scroll through this site for the past year and you’ll see many examples of this (of those that don’t get deleted). Not only are they inept from a technological standpoint but they are oddly dangerous from an HR standpoint. Just ask the women in his org. Have one real hour long unscripted conversation with him (or even better attend a customer meeting where real world needs are being discussed) and decide for yourself if he says anything that actually makes sense or if it’s a mess of buzz words and avoiding taking a real stance on any strategic direction.

Does anyone know where Sandy went? Fired or resigned?
(may have been covered here but) Brian Sweeny is gone as of last month.
Any more expected executive departures from the old guard?
Paul, James, Shannon .... I'm looking at you.

Apple Inc., long the model of stability in Silicon Valley, is suddenly undergoing its biggest personnel shake-up in decades, with senior executives and key engineers both hitting the exits… And more changes are likely coming.
Johny Srouji — senior vice president of hardware technologies and one of Apple’s most respected executives — recently told Cook that he is seriously considering leaving in the near future.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-06/apple-rocked-by-executive-departures-with-johny-srouji-at-risk-of-leaving-next

The start to this townhall really represents how things are in TS ( Global Payments and Trade).

It’s a mess. How many executives does it take to operate a slide deck and Webex? Apparently at least four.

Love how she actually said that our company does so much for employees. Gaslighting knows no bounds.

Are there any Imperial executives who actually think a move to Edmonton is a great idea?

Real players are Aruba going forward, and he's the guy where they pull the string on his back and watch the show for a few minutes. You can tell he's just copying himself, wondering how to get a seat at the adults table for the big dinner.

What is Dan even talking about in this all hands?? He seems so unprepared and is just talking in circles... he hasn't said one useful thing and is just patting the useless execs on their backs.

https://wccftech.com/after-leaving-intel-pat-gelsinger-attracts-us-government-support/

I thought dan was trying to cut costs?

SAP, founded in June 1972, when Dietmar, Klaus, Hans-Werner, Claus and Hasso departed IBM when they were told the software they had all been working on was no longer needed and so they started their own company - SAP.

We all need to pay  highest recognition for what these individuals achieved and the great company that was created.

But the time has come  for the remaining two founders and specifically Hasso to completely step away from the management, operation, executive selection, strategy, etc.... and allow new leadership take over SAP,  Times have changed from what they were in 1972 and so must SAP also evolve - which as long as the legacy founders are running the company and selecting the C-Level executives we will be stuck in the past.

Yes, Hasso removed Punit Renjen ( even before he officially took over as Supervisory Board Chairmen), but why did he do this.  Because Renjen was prepared to make significant changes ( whatever they may have been?)  and Hasso was not supportive.

And then what did he do?  He installed another puppet who was a protege of Hasso  and on SAP Board since 2002 - Pekka Ala-Pietila.  The issue is not who are the individuals in C level positions BUT rather WHO is putting them in such positions. 
This type of oversight and control is  simply what IS NOT NEEDED AT THIS TIME.

Look, the issue driving our latest survey results down to 59% when measuring confidence in the Board, is the Board itself  !     And CK, Asam,etc.. are all in Clevel positions for one reason = Hasso.   Until we get  leadership who is responsible for selecting the best and most talented key people AND holds them accountable, we will not see any improvement.

Yes, all congrats go to the founders of SAP for what they achieved, but the time has come for them to move on and allow new talent  that has domain experience and is capable of running a company the size and breadth of SAP.  We no longer can afford to just have hand picked people by Hasso who really have no outside C Level experience running the company - or we will all  be on the outside looking in.  Yes, the time has come and the time is now.

besides the free $20m and salary for a year?

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Thiight the town hall was filled with energy and engagement. Wonderful to see. It’s obvious how much the executive team prioritizes us employees. The town halls are always so engaging. I commend them. Love our benefits too.

Anyone notice that a few SVPs weren’t included in the Q&A today? Yolanda, Julie, Kwame? What could this mean? Do they have nothing to contribute? Some of the questions involved their groups… I would have like to see them speak.

State Farm jet taking off right now from Bloomington airport. i wonder the high paid execs are scooting off to now? Too good to fly commercial.

I have no sales experience past little baby deals, can I be a CRO of a billion dollar company too?

Sure is fun to see all these pics on LinkedIn of Partner Summit. Our fearless leader and the executive minions living their best life while sinking this ship and ruining peoples lives. I hope the steaks at the Golden Steer were amazing.

Is this like CEOs of the business line and up? I found the salary chart and it says 33 and above do not have a pay scale. I assume 33+ negotiate their entire employment/contract with the company then and are not considered like regular employees?

Interesting, I did not realize there was a connection between Patrick Dennis and David Funck from Alviria where Patrick Dennis was CEO and David Funck was CTO. Things are starting to make a lot more sense now.

(based on Gemini queries)

Patrick Dennis:
Based on the available information, Patrick Dennis served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Alvaria, Inc. from 2021 to 2/2022.

Prior to that, he was President & CEO of Aspect Software (which merged with Noble Systems to form Alvaria) from 2019 to 2021.
https://www.vectorcapital.com/team/

Patrick Dennis started as Chairman of the Board at Avaya in 2023.

The role began when the company emerged from its recapitalization in May 2023.

David Funck:
David Funck was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Alvaria.

While the exact start and end years are not specified in the available snippets, it is confirmed that:

He served as CTO at Alvaria.

He was noted as Alvaria Chief Technology Officer in an article dated Tuesday, July 19, 2022.

Alvaria's launch date was in 2021 (formed from the merger of Aspect Software and Noble Systems).

He later joined Avaya as Chief Architect and then became their CTO.

The exact month David Funck began as CTO of Alvaria is not explicitly stated, but the information suggests his tenure in that specific role started close to the company's formation:

Alvaria was formed by the merger of Aspect Software and Noble Systems, which was announced on May 10, 2021.

David Funck had previously been a technology leader at Aspect Software for 20 years, and served as Chief Technology Officer there.

He is listed on Alvaria's subsequent leadership teams as the Chief Technology Officer.

Given that Alvaria was formed in May 2021 and he was already the CTO of the merging entity, Aspect Software, it is highly likely he transitioned into the role of CTO for the newly formed Alvaria around May 2021.

The available information states that David Funck was the CTO of Edify and joined Avaya through the acquisition of Edify, which was closed in May of 2024.

The specific start year for his tenure as CTO of Edify is not provided in the context, but his time in the role would have ended in May 2024.

Reducing our paycheck amounts in 2026 with this 27 week pay period non-sense, increasing our out-of-pocket health care expenses and still pushing us to buy EH stock because nobody else wants it??? Seriously Executives, stick your head out of your million and billion dollar bubbles and see how everyone else is trying to survive with the low merit increases and next to nothing AIPs now. Buy EH stock with what??? We don't have anything left at the end of the month after we pay our bills thanks to the C suite pocketing all of the company profits.

Just a counter all the Brown nose posts that are now occurring on LinkedIn saying how beautiful and wonderful Mikey is. He's not. He's run the company into the ground and made the stupid decision to hand over all the executive positions to legacy sprint people who couldn't find their back side with a radar set.

The layoffs were in the works for months and the execs certainly knew about it. And yet, Prat and Rick still decided to call us all back to the office on their arbitrary timeline, upend our lives and schedules, and scramble for desk space. All to lay off people mere weeks later. Do they get a sick enjoyment out of controlling us like puppets or are they just really bad at decision making?

Where is everyone getting their info about execs let go? I would like to see a whole list as it might give us some idea about where the layoffs are going to be.

More new executive hires. SunTruist changes leadership in various areas like dirty socks. We are now spending millions to try and get back the wholesale payments and business they three years ago didn’t give a damn about. This circus needs a bigger tent!

"Paramount Skydance has recruited Jay Askinasi, most recently Roku’s top advertising exec, as chief revenue officer.

Askinasi will start at Paramount Nov. 3, dual-reporting to CEO David Ellison and president Jeff Shell. According to the company, the CRO position is a newly created role “designed to lead the company’s monetization strategy and strengthen its long-term positioning as a next-generation media company” and to push toward a unified advertising platform. John Halley remains in his role as president of Paramount Advertising, reporting to Askinasi."

Oct 9th 2025 - Variety

"I dont need an executive council" screams arrogance, maybe he can make all the decisions himself but it usually ends in disaster. Every smart leader needs smart people around them.

She’s a terrible leader and widely disliked for her utter disdain for the workers. “Leading” the bank but in the wrong direction, the bank is a total mess across the board with her incompetence. Such fake and purchased recognition.

This quote angers me so much:

“It won’t be anything special,” Chief Financial Officer Dominik Asam told the German newspaper Handelsblatt, saying the annual job reductions are “like brushing your teeth.”

It shows arrogance and lack of empathy of the CFO. These cuts mean so much to everyone affected by them. And even to those not directly affected. It affects the community of SAP immensely.

Any news on departures from the Leadership Forum; has anything been announced?

I’m personal friends with some of the longstanding analyst community and today we are hosting our analyst briefings in Mexico. Ajay absolutely embarrassed himself from what they told me and now they question our long term product strategy. This guy is ki-ling us! He even threw up a slide that pretty much said that we had zero talent to begin with and are only beginning our next generation development after hiring a few of his handpicked people. I was told he was blubbering over and over and not making any sense. Can he be removed already!!!

Shankar today announced more VPs coz that is the answer?

And they travel business class? AV VP Sales is a KN prodigy

Trash can people!

Nothing to say that has not been posted here already. spoke with him on multiple occasions. this guy is a joke. lot of blatant lies on his linkedin profile too. not much of a career trajectory either. mid level PM to getting kicked out of adobe to being jobless for a couple years to landing this job. his connections in the board got him here. pity.

What questions do you wish they were actually asking the EC?

Not just a new CEO, but Sycamore also named a new EXECUTIVE chairman John L. For those unaware an executive chairman has more power and authority than a regular chairman of the board. Executive chairman has a lot more say over day to day operations of a company. And essentially the CEO reports to the executive chairman. Plus like most boards they tend to operate behind the scenes, as opposed to more out front like a CEO. Get ready for virtually no transparency. Plus on a side note, no mention of Stefano's role in the new company.