Vadhi Narasimhamurti

Vadhi Narasimhamurti is Deloitte's Global SAP Offering Leader, based in New York. With over 20 years of experience in the firm, Vadhi is a Principal known for his expertise in helping clients envision, execute and create value from their business transformation journeys largely using SAP solutions. Vadhi leads several global programs for the firm across Consumer, ER&I and Life Sciences clients. Vadhi’s has played multiple roles across Supply Chain, Delivery Transformation, and Sales Excellence. His passion lies in orchestrating cross-functional and cross-border initiatives to deliver transformative business programs for key global clients. Vadhi's influence is pivotal in supporting global deals and engagements, ensuring the seamless operation of Deloitte's SAP services across the globe.

Jan Gilg

Jan Gilg is a member of the SAP Extended Board, co-leading the global Customer Success Board area, overseeing SAP cloud revenue and customer growth. He leads the SAP Americas region and manages the global SAP Business Suite organization, covering customer advisory, sales, and success management. With over 18 years in enterprise software, Gilg previously served as President and Chief Product Officer of Cloud ERP, overseeing Product Management, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations for S/4HANA. He has held various executive roles at SAP, contributing to cloud strategy and establishing SAP's Enterprise Architecture practice in North America. Gilg holds a master's degree in business information systems from Liechtenstein University and chairs the Board of Directors for Taulia, LLC.

Arjun Krishnamurthy

Arjun, a Managing Director in Deloitte Consulting, has spent his entire career working at the intersection of Technology and Consumer Industry, with the last 17 years being at Deloitte. He has had the privilege of helping some of the largest consumer companies in the world innovate their capabilities through technology to enable next generation operations and advanced analytics. Within Deloitte, Arjun leads the Innovations Platforms focused on using cloud based microservices for Machine Learning/AI, Computer Vision, IoT, advanced visualization to drive value to Deloitte’s clients.

Philipp Herzig

Philipp Herzig is Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer of SAP SE, leading technology strategy, research, innovation,and corporate development, with a focus on Business AI, sustainability, and topics such as quantum computing. Since 2024, he has been instrumental in advancing SAP's AI initiatives, leveraging his expertise in integrating SAP's product portfolio for a seamless customer experience. Herzig's career at SAP includes roles as software engineer, architect, and engineering leader, with a focus on cloud-native applications and fostering engineering excellence. He holds a PhD in computer science from Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

Som Suresh

Som is a leader at Deloitte driving technology-enabled business transformations, connecting SAP and the broader ecosystem to deliver significant value for clients through an AI and engineering mindset. With a strong value lens, Som guides his clients from initial value identification all the way to achieving measurable results for AI powered business transformations. He is passionate about empowering organizations and his goal is to fully unleash the potential of AI and Analytics and helps clients build resilient AI and Analytics strategies, optimize their exponential business processes and implement advanced solutions for front, middle and back offices operations.

Satya Jayadev

Satya Jayadev is vice president and chief information officer of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. Skyworks is an innovator of high-performance analog semiconductors whose solutions are powering the wireless networking revolution. He joined the company in August 2018. Prior to joining Skyworks, Jayadev served as chief information officer for Momentive, a chemical company. Before that, he served as global director of information technology at Purolator Advanced Filtration Group, and previously held increasingly IT strategic and management positions at Imperial Tobacco Group and various other organizations. Jayadev holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Madras and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Rahul Chhatwal

Rahul Chhatwal serves as a Principal within Deloitte’s Energy, Resources and Industrials practice. With a proven track record in steering digital transformation projects, he focuses on driving business value, managing change effectively, and integrating next-generation technologies. Widely acknowledged for his broad industry and technological expertise, Rahul routinely guides clients through intricate business transformation journeys.

Tamika Bell

Tamika Bell is the Head of Digital for the Americas at Mitsubishi Chemical Group, where she drives transformation across manufacturing, supply chain, corporate, and commercial functions. Operating at the intersection of interconnected operations, she focuses on diagnosing systems, not symptoms, to strengthen the enterprise value chain. With over two decades of experience in global and regional transformation, governance, risk, security, and change leadership, Tamika combines hands-on expertise with visionary strategy. She is recognized for developing leaders and positioning digital as a catalyst for sustainable growth and enterprise resilience.

Guest Host: Vijay Sharma

Vijay Sharma is a Partner at Deloitte UK, where he is responsible for activating the Deloitte network to help build and globalize services and technology that can help enable clients to become leaders in the complex and rapidly changing sustainability landscape. Previously, Vijay led strategy and investments for Deloitte Global Ecosystems and Alliances and has served Deloitte US technology sector clients in a strategy capacity for more than a decade. He has also led organizations that have used artificial intelligence to re-architect work, which helped redefine their presence in the marketplace. Vijay holds a Bachelor of Science from Drexel University and an MBA from the London Business School.

Sophia Mendelsohn

As Chief Sustainability and Commercial Officer for SAP Sustainability, Sophia and her teams oversee SAP’s corporate sustainability and bring sustainability to market for our customers. Sophia’s long-standing area of focus is in guiding organizations on how to balance immediate financial goals with sustainability and ESG governance for long-term business viability. She has deep expertise in sustainability and specializes in executive stakeholder engagement. She designed and taught the first ESG course at Harvard Extension School, is a recognised public voice on ESG, and was chosen as one of the top 10 sustainability leaders of the year by the industry's leading publication, Sustainability Magazine. Sophia has a Master of Science in sustainable management from Columbia University.

John Lenahans

John is the Global Director of Commercial and Emerging Technology Services at Esri. In this role he is responsible for guiding the direction and execution of services strategy across the AEC, forestry, mining, energy, banking, retail, real estate, insurance, manufacturing, entertainment/media, and high-tech verticals. As part of the executive leadership team in Professional Services, John leads specialized practices, made up of highly experienced spatial consultants and technologists focused on the challenges faced by the private sector and solving real world business problems using geospatial technology and approaches. The approaches in these markets often require innovative offerings in the areas of advanced spatial analytics and sophisticated visualization using Big Data, Real-time feeds, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to meet customer strategic goals and to enable data-driven decision-making and business transformation.

Sophia Mendelsohn

As Chief Sustainability and Commercial Officer for SAP Sustainability, Sophia and her teams oversee SAP’s corporate sustainability and bring sustainability to market for our customers. Sophia’s long-standing area of focus is in guiding organizations on how to balance immediate financial goals with sustainability and ESG governance for long-term business viability. She has deep expertise in sustainability and specializes in executive stakeholder engagement. She designed and taught the first ESG at Harvard Extension School, is a recognised public voice on ESG, and was chosen as one of the top 10 sustainability leaders of the year by the industry's leading publication, Sustainability Magazine. Sophia has a Master of Science in sustainable management from Columbia University.

Jacques Buith

Jacques is the former Deloitte Global SAP Sustainability Leader as well as the Global Lead Partner for United Nations, supported by an amazing multi-disciplinary team from across Deloitte’s global business units to focus on helping customers design better business processes to achieve their sustainability commitments whilst meeting the multitude of regulations they face and achieve differential growth. He has diverse experience in sustainability, risk management and governance, and featured as one of the Top 25 Sustainability Consultants and Leaders of 2023 by The Consulting Report. As strategic advisor to Boards and Executive teams of global corporations and multilateral organizations, Jacques has focused on building teams, making connections, and helping professionals grow.

Vadhi Narasimhamurti

Vadhi is a Partner at Deloitte focused on helping Consumer Products company reduce their operating costs and improve their supply chain efficiencies through technology enabled business transformations. He leads several programs at global clients and is focused on realizing Value from the ERP investments for his clients. Vadhi also leads the global SAP supply chain practice for the firm and the Delivery transformation for the SAP practice in the US. Vadhi lives in Brooklyn with his wife and 2 kids.

Darcy MacClaren

Darcy is the Chief Revenue Officer of SAP Digital Supply Chain, where she leverages over 30 years of experience in technology transformation focused on supply chain management. Previously holding multiple leadership roles at SAP, including Senior Vice President of Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 for SAP North America, she now drives the global supply chain business towards sustainable and resilient growth. A recognized thought leader and champion for women in supply chain, Darcy has been featured in top media outlets and is the founder of the Empowering Women in Supply Chain Network. She holds a BA from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo.