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Vishal Sikka is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and the Global Managing Board, heading all SAP products and innovation.

Introduction:

Vishal Sikka grew up in Vadodara (formerly Baroda), India.
His father an officer in the Indian Railways.
Vishal Sikka is a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG and the Global Managing Board, heading all SAP products and innovation.
Sikka has global responsibility for development and delivery of all products across SAP’s product portfolio including Applications, Analytics, Cloud, Database & Technology and Mobile.
Sikka is also responsible for leading the design and end-user experience for SAP, and is responsible for driving all innovation globally.

Education:

Vishal Sikka graduated from Rosary High School.
He studied computer engineering at M S University, Baroda.
After completing his B.S. in Computer Science at Syracuse University, Sikka was accepted for the doctoral program at Stanford University.
His dissertation was titled Integrating Specialized Procedures into Proof Systems and his thesis advisor was Michael Genesereth.
He graduated with his Ph.D. in 1996.

Industry Profile:

After a brief stint at Xerox’s research labs, Sikka founded iBrain which competed at the time with Business Objects.
iBrain was acquired by PatternRX, Inc.
His second startup, Bodha.com, focused on developing technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and information.
Sikka joined Peregrine Systems as their area Vice-President for Platform Technologies, responsible for application development and integration technologies and architecture, following their acquisition of Bodha.com.
Sikka joined SAP in 2002 to head up the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects.
Later he was promoted to Senior Vice President of Architecture and Chief Software Architect, responsible for the road map and the direction for the architecture of SAP’s products and infrastructure.
In April 2007, Sikka was named SAP’s first-ever CTO reporting to then CEO Henning Kagermann.

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