Der ehemalige Nokia-Präsident Pekka Ala-Pietilä picture-alliance / dpa | Newspaper image Wennström
Former Nokia supervisor Pekka Ala-Pietilä is to be elected to the supervisory board on the SAP normal assembly in Mannheim on May fifteenth.
There was turbulence over the personnel as a result of Europe’s largest software program firm surprisingly rescheduled Plattner’s successor.
Punit Renjen, the previous head of the consulting agency Deloitte, was truly presupposed to take up the submit.
This Wednesday, May fifteenth, is the overall assembly of Germany’s most dear firm. Namely that of the software program firm SAP. One of crucial factors of the day: the election of former Nokia supervisor Pekka Ala-Pietilä to the supervisory board. The designated successor to SAP Supervisory Board Chairman Hasso Plattner will then transfer to the highest of the supervisory board based mostly in Walldorf (Rhein-Neckar district) and thus succeed Plattner.
There was turbulence over the personnel as a result of Europe’s largest software program firm surprisingly rescheduled Plattner’s successor. Punit Renjen was truly presupposed to take up the submit.
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In February it was introduced that the corporate and Renjen had determined to separate by mutual consent. SAP cited completely different concepts concerning the future function of the chairman of the supervisory board as the rationale. According to studies, the American was not capable of get used to the function of supervisor of the corporate’s board of administrators, which is legally required in Germany. The “Manager Magazine,” amongst others, wrote that he was very actively concerned in day-to-day enterprise and that it not solely introduced pleasure.
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Just over a yr in the past, when SAP launched the previous head of the consulting agency Deloitte as Plattner’s supposed successor, the corporate nonetheless sounded extraordinarily assured. Renjen was “extraordinarily effectively certified for the supervisory board and can be a wonderful candidate,” it was mentioned on the time. He was then elected to the supervisory board in May final yr.
So now the about-face. With the Finn Ala-Pietilä, an previous acquaintance comes again to the corporate from Walldorf. The former president of Nokia sat on the supervisory board of SAP from 2002 to 2021. Plattner based SAP in 1972 along with Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus Tschira and Hans-Werner Hector. He has been chairman of the supervisory board since 2003.
with DPA/jel