Snabe Jim Hagemann

Snabe Jim Hagemann

Biography

Education

Speaks in five languages fluently (Danish, French, German, English and shvetsky). Has an academic degree of the Danish business school Aarhus School of Business.

Career

1990-2000

Jim Hagemann Snabe began work in SAP in 1990. He started the career the consultant at the Danish office SAP where he quickly grew to the head of consulting.

In 1994 Jim Hagemann Snabe for some time left SAP and passed into the Danish division of IBM to a position of the head of one of the directions. He returned to SAP in 1996 as the director of division of SAP in Sweden and held this post three years. Then Snabe was appointed the director of SAP in the Scandinavian region. And after a while entered into leadership team of SAP in the region of Europe, the Middle East and EMEA.

In 2002 Jim Hagemann Snabe received the offer to pass into international division of development of SAP to provide the most full compliance of development process to market demands. It worked as the senior vice president and the operating officer of division of SAP for development of solutions for business. And also was responsible for development of the flagman solution of the company for resource management of the SAP ERP enterprise and creation of SAP solutions for financial and state sectors. Then Snabe headed industry business of SAP and directed development of industry solutions in more than 24 segments.

In 2006 Jim Hagemann Snabe was included into executive council of SAP where was responsible for customer relations and product development. On July 1, 2008 he became the board member of the company.

In 2007 Snabe headed the division which is responsible for a complex of the SAP solutions Business Suite and directed application development of this complex. After in 2008 Jim Hagemann Snabe became the board member of SAP, he headed division of solutions and technologies for business where he was responsible for development of all solutions for large corporations, medium and small business and a technology platform.

In 2010 it is appointed the codirector of SAP together with Bill McDermott.

2013: Departure from the job of the codirector of SAP

In July, 2013 it became known that the codirector of SAP Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave the post in May, 2014, having become the member of the supervisory board of the company. The CEO's position was taken alone by Bill McDermott. Jim choice as the member of the supervisory board was supported by 25% of shareholders.

Snabe so commented on the solution:

After 20 years of work in SAP I decided that it is time to begin a new stage of the career: closer to my family. The command which rose at a wheel of SAP in 2010 achieved significant changes, and these changes at the moment are drivers for conversion of all industry

The chairman of the board of directors and the co-founder of SAP Hasso Plattner also said:

I am proud of those results which Bill and Jim achieved together with the moment of the appointment to the post of codirectors in February, 2010. Working with two of the best leaders of the industry, now I can direct experience and Jim's efforts to activity within the supervisor of the company.

Though Makdermott and Snabe always characterized joint work positively, in 2012-2013 Snabe faded into the background of the colleague a little. At the same time responsibility of codirectors is practically not crossed: Makdermott is concentrated on sales, and Snabe supervises development and development of products. However, for quite some time now Vishal Sikka began to run sofetverny developments SAP directly that made an operational role of Snabe not absolutely clear.

According to the analyst and the head of Constellation Research companyRay Vanga (Ray Wang), the Snabe's transition to the supervisory board of the company is connected with two objective circumstances. First, the company needs to concentrate all development in Vishal's hands, secondly, all innovations are concentrated outside Germany today, and Sikka coordinates process directly of Palo Alto (California, the USA).

2017: Appointment of the chairman of the board of Siemens

On January 31, 2017 the Siemens concern announced Jim Hagemann Snabe's invitation to a post of the chairman of the board of directors of the company. This appointment can indicate the growing attention of the German giant to the software market.

The nominating committee of the supervisory board Siemens was recommended by Snabe as the new chairman of the board of directors instead of Gerhard Cromme. the 51-year-old former head of SAP who since 2013 is included into the supervisory board of Siemens officially will become the chairman of the board of corporation in January, 2018.

Jim Hagemann Snabe

Mister Snabe has deep knowledge of the software and digitalization — Gerhard Kromme noted. — This appointment sets a rate for long-term planning of succession and stability.

According to the analyst of Kepler Cheuvreux William Mackie, Jim Hagemann Snabe's arrival to a position of the chairman of the board of directors of Siemens is quite logical, considering as the company tries to adapt the industrial heritage of the 19th century to the 21st.

Snabe has very important experience of the person who the most part of the career was engaged in programming and hardware elements of the technology sector — McKee considers.

As notes Bloomberg, how products of Siemens became more automated, they generate huge data arrays which understanding requires difficult software. Software and services are important for Siemens as nobody else: they, as a rule, more profitable in comparison with industrial goods, they bring the predicted income and provide constancy of the customer base as it is difficult to companies to pass from one software to another.

According to the charter of Siemens, members of the supervisory board should not be more senior than 70 years at the time of their election or prolongation of term of membership. Gerhard Kromma will be 74 years old when the term of its management of Board of Directors at the beginning of 2018 expires.

Jim Hagemanna born in Denmark of Snabe will become the first non German chairman of the board of Siemens, one of the few foreigners in top management of the company and the most young man who held this high-ranking position in Siemens.^[1]

By the beginning of 2017 Jim Hagemann Snabe is included into Board of Directors of the following companies: SAP, Allianz, Moeller-Maersk and Bang & Olufsen. In SAP company of Snabe held the different leading posts in divisions of consulting, sales and development.

2021

For February, 2021 - the chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens.

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