People: SAP AG (SAP.N)

Mr. Vishal Sikka has been Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Board of Sap AG since February 7, 2010. He has served as Chief Technology Officer of the Company from April 2007 till February 7, 2010. He is responsible for Innovation, Technology and Architecture across the Company and Global Research. He was also Chief Software Architect at the Company, responsible for the SAP technology and architecture road map, before he was responsible for the advanced technology group. Before joining the Company, in 2002,he was Area Vice President for Platform Technologies at Peregrine Systems, where he was responsible for developing Peregrine's (Remedy Corp) application platform, including development tools and lifecycle management. He joined Peregrine following the acquisition of his startup Bodha, Inc, where he served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer. He holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Palo Alto Labs, and at two startup companies.