Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 2012 Candidates for Supervisory Board Election Pekka Ala-Pietilä
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SAP Shareholder Magazine SAP INVESTOR Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 2012 Candidates for Supervisory Board election Pekka Ala-Pietilä Pekka Ala-Pietilä is CEO and co-founder of Blyk Ltd., a mobile media company. Prior to that, he spent over 20 years in Nokia senior management: from 1992 to 1998 as President of Nokia Mobile Phones, and most recently, from 1999 through 2005, as President of Nokia Corpora- tion and Head of Customer Market Operations. Pekka Ala-Pietilä currently serves on the SAP Supervisory Board, and since 2011 he has been the chairman of the Board of Solidium Oy, a state-owned Finnish holding company that is a major shareholder in 12 listed companies. He is an honorary member of Ornamo, the Finnish Association of Designers. Pekka Ala-Pietilä read economics at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He holds an honorary doctorate of Technology from Tampere and an honorary doctorate of Science from Helsinki. He is also a first class knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: ■ Board of Directors of CVON Future Limited, London, UK ■ Board of Directors of Blyk Services Oy, Helsinki, Finland (Chairman) ■ none ■ Board of Directors of Blyk (NL) Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of Blyk (DE) Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ Board of Directors of Blyk (ES) Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of Blyk (BE) Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of Pöyry Oyj, Vantaa, Finland ■ Board of Directors of Blyk.nl NV, Amsterdam, Netherlands ■ Board of Directors of CVON Group Limited, London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of Blyk.be SA, Hoeilaart, Belgium (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of CVON Limited, London, UK ■ Board of Directors of Blyk International Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of CVON Innovations Limited, London, UK ■ Board of Directors of Solidium Oy, Helsinki, Finland (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of CVON Innovation Services Oy, Turku, Finland (Chairman) Anja Feldmann Prof. Anja Feldmann, Ph.D., is a professor at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (an affiliated ins- titution of the Technische Universität Berlin). Previously, she was a professor in the computer science department at the Technische Universität München and the Universität des Saarlandes. Prior to that, she was a member of the IP Network Measurement and Performance Department at AT&T Labs — Research. Currently Anja Feldmann focuses her research on improving the per- formance of the Internet. In 2011, she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Berliner Wissenschaftspreis (Berlin Science Prize). Anja Feldmann studied computer science at the University of Paderborn and received her degree in 1990. In 1991 she received a Master of Science and in 1995 a Ph.D. in computer science, both from Carnegie Mellon University. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ none ■ none SAP Supervisory Board election 2012 2 Wilhelm Haarmann Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Haarmann is a lawyer admitted to the German Bar, a certified public accoun- tant a certified tax advisor, as well as a founding and the name partner of HAARMANN Partner- schaftsgesellschaft, which he founded together with other partners in the beginning of 2006. He mainly advises on corporate transactions (M&A, private equity, and venture capital), tax and corporate law and acts as an arbitrator. Wilhelm Haarmann is a member of the SAP Supervisory Board; he is also chairman of the tax committee of the Institute of Public Auditors in Germany (IDW) and a member of the Executive Board of the International Fiscal Association’s German section. From 2005 until 2009 he was a member of the Executive Board of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Until 2007 he was a member of the World Economic Fo- rum for 15 years. Before founding HAARMANN Partnerschaftsgesellschaft, he was a partner at Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. in Munich and then co-founded Haarmann, Hemmelrath & Partner in 1987. Wilhelm Haarmann is honorary professor for tax law at the University of Bamberg. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Münster (1979) and studied law and economics at the universities of Münster and Freiburg. From 1974-1976 he was a trainee lawyer at Bielefeld. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ none ■ none Bernard Liautaud Bernard Liautaud is general partner at Balderton Capital, a premier venture capital firm in Europe managing $1.8 billion in committee capital and is located in London. Bernard founded Business Objects in 1990 and was CEO for 15 years, then served as Chairman until January 2008. With 6,700 employees, 45,000 customers and $1.5 billion of revenue in 2007, Busi- ness Objects was the world leader in Business Intelligence and one of the 15 largest software companies in the world. Business Objects was the first European software IPO on Nasdaq in 1994. In January 2008, Business Objects was acquired by SAP for $6.8 billion, making it the third largest software acquisition at the time. Bernard is a member of the SAP Supervisory Board and its strategy committee. He is also a member of Cap Gemini’s board and its strat- egy committee. Bernard Liautaud is the author of the book “e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information Into Knowledge Into Profit”. He is a member of the Board of Fondation MSF (Doc- tors without Borders), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He has received a number of distinctions including “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” in 2007 in France, “Time Magazine Europe‘s” Digital Top 25 and “BusinessWeek” Stars of Europe of 2002, Top 10 CEOs in Nor- th America by “Chief Executive Magazine” in 2001. Education: Diplôme d‘Ingénieur, Ecole Centrale de Paris, and Master of Science, Engineering Management, Stanford University. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: ■ Board of Directors of nlyte Software Ltd., London, UK (Chairman) ■ Board of Directors of Talend SA, Suresnes, France ■ none ■ Board of Directors of Cap Gemini SA, Paris, France ■ Board of Directors of Quickbridge (UK) Ltd., London, UK Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ Board of Directors of Scytl Secure Electronic Voting SA, Barcelona, Spain ■ Board of Directors of Abiquo Group Inc., Redwood City, California, USA ■ Board of Directors of Clinical Solutions Holdings Ltd., Basingstoke, ■ Board of Directors of Dashlane, Inc., New York, NY, USA Hampshire, UK ■ Board of Directors of Vestiaire de Copines SA, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France SAP Supervisory Board election 2012 3 Hartmut Mehdorn Since September 1, 2011, Dr. h. c. Hartmut Mehdorn is CEO of the German airline “airberlin, PLC”. He is also a member of the SAP Supervisory Board. From 1966 to 1978 he worked for VFW, his last position being that of production head at MBB. From 1979 – 1984 he was a member of the management of Airbus Industrie S.A. in Toulouse. Between 1984 and 1989 Hartmut Mehdorn was head of the MBB Transport- und Verkehrsflugzeuge Group and from 1985 was also a member of the MBB management team in Munich. From 1989 to 1992 he was Chairman of Deutsche Airbus GmbH in Hamburg, and, from 1992 – 1995, he was a member of the Board of Deutsche Aerospace AG. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Heidelberger Druck- maschinen AG from 1995 to 1999, and, from 1998 to 1999, was also a member of the Board of RWE AG. From December 1999 to April 2009 Hartmut Mehdorn was CEO and Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bahn AG. Hartmut Mehdorn studied mechanical engineering in Berlin. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ none ■ Advisory Board of Fiege Group, Greven (purely advisory body) ■ Board of Directors of Rossijskije schelesnyje dorogi (open limited company “Russian Railways”), Moscow, Russian Federation Hasso Plattner Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Hasso Plattner is one of the founders of SAP and has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board since May 2003. In this role and as Chief Software Advisor he concentrates on defining the medium and long-term technology strategy of SAP. He also heads the Techno- logy Committee of the SAP Supervisory Board. In 1972 Hasso Plattner and four colleagues left IBM in order to found SAP (Systems, Applications, Products). When SAP went public in 1988 Hasso was appointed Vice Chairman of the Executive Board. From 1997 to May 2003 he was Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of SAP. In May 2003 he was elected to the SAP Su- pervisory Board and took over the chairmanship from co-founder Dietmar Hopp. Hasso received his Master‘s Degree in Communications Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. In 1990 the University of Saarbruecken awarded him an honorary doctorate and in 1994 he was gran- ted an honorary full professorship. In 1998 he founded the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for IT Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam with the largest single private contribution to a university ever made in Germany. He is a professor at the HPI for enterprise software systems. Membership of other supervisory boards required by law: Membership of comparable controlling bodies in Germany and abroad: ■ none ■ none SAP Supervisory Board election 2012 4 Erhard Schipporeit Dr. Erhard Schipporeit is an independant management consultant. He is a non-executive director with TUI Travel PLC, and is a member of a number of supervisory boards, including that of SAP AG, Deutsche Börse AG, Talanx AG, BDO AG, and Hanover Rueckversicherung AG. He started his career in 1979 in the Bosch Group and in 1981 he joined VARTA AG/VARTA Battery AG, at that time a leading European battery company, where he became Chief Financial Officer in 1990 and Chief Executive and Chairman of the Executive Board in 1993.