CIO Symposium Contributor

Bio

Michael Golz is Senior Vice President & CIO Americas at SAP. He oversees all IT infrastructure and applications in North America and Latin America, aligning information and technology strategy with SAP’s business strategy, directing the investment in IT to support the organization’s goals and providing best-in-class processes and reliable, optimized operations for all SAP lines of business in the Americas.

Michael also leads the unique Global “SAP Runs SAP” program which highlights IT and Product Development in areas of Enterprise Mobility, In-Memory Technology, Green IT and Cloud. As a result, SAP Global IT has become the company's best customer reference, and Michael frequently speaks to customers about IT’s first-hand experiences with SAP software.

Previously, Mr. Golz was Senior Vice President, Global IT Application Services with worldwide responsibility for SAP's internal business applications and external platforms, covering the entire spectrum of SAP solutions for SAP’s employees. Prior to that, Mr. Golz led SAP’s Product System Services unit providing the system infrastructure for SAP’s worldwide Education, Sales and Consulting lines of business.