In his current role at SAP, Sven is responsible for the Analytics Global Center of Excellence in EMEA and MEE in representation of SAP’s end-to-end Analytics line of business.  Prior to joining SAP as the global leader for Predictive Analytics in 2015, Sven served as senior vice president for Sales at MicroStrategy in charge of the European business.  Prior to MicroStrategy, Sven served in leadership roles at Aprimo, SAS Institute, SPSS Software and Teradata.  At SAS and SPSS, Sven managed portfolios in BI, Advanced Analytics and Customer Intelligence.  He brings over 20 years of experience in managing enterprise accounts and successfully leading international sales and service organizations.  Sven holds a Master of Science in Business Informatics from University of Cologne (Germany).