Christian Vrancic

Christian serves as the Head of Strategy & Product Management in SAP's Sovereign Services & Delivery organization. In this role, Christian is responsible to develop and evolve SAP's Sovereign Cloud product portfolio and overall strategy from market expansion to Go-To-Market. His involvement in strategic customer engagements across all target markets and spearheading strategic initiatives round up his current role.

Christian joined SAP in 2016 as a financial analyst for HANA Enterprise Cloud. He then moved on to SAP's Transformation Office to lead strategic board initiatives along SAP's transformation journey. Those initiatives spanned the full value business process chain of SAP. Examples are the simplification of SAP's sales and partner processes and a better integrated Sales & Operations Planning process to increase infrastructure service utilization. His strategic cross-board area program work concluded in 2022 with leading and successfully completing SAP's largest transformation program Next-Gen Cloud Delivery to migrate all SAP Cloud workload to SAP's 4+1 hyperscaler strategy.

Prior to that, Christian started his professional career as a software architect in the Life Science industry after finishing his education as a Medical Physicist.

Education

MSc in Medical Physics (Radiation Therapy), Harvard Medical School / University of Heidelberg

Diploma in Medical Physics (Diabetes Care), Roche Diagnostics / University of Heidelberg

PhD in Medical Physics (Biomedical Optics), University of Heidelberg