Thomas Kaiser

Freelancer Toka-Consulting (ex SVP SAP)

Dielheim, Germany

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
3 months
Hybrid

Freelancer

Toka-Consulting

Freelancer since January 2025. I help customers navigating through their SAP transformation and migration Projects leveraging my extensive SAP experience and network.

Feb 2019 - Present
6 years 2 months
Walldorf, Germany

Senior Vice President Innovation Development

SAP SE

Development of innovative and differentiating cloud-native extension on SAP Business Technology Platform for SAP's Cloud ERP to support customers in their digital transformation journey. Team size: 180 FTE in Walldorf, Bangalore and Shanghai.

Apr 2014 - Feb 2019
4 years 11 months
Walldorf, Germany

Senior Vice President IoT Application Development

SAP SE

Definition of SAP's IoT strategy, investment proposal to the board and subsequent strategy execution. Team size: 600 FTE in Bangalore, Walldorf and Palo Alto.

Feb 2010 - Apr 2014
4 years 3 months
Walldorf, Germany

Vice President SAP Business Suite Strategy & Mobile Applications

SAP SE

Definition of the SAP Business Suite strategy and roadmap definition directly reporting to the SAP board. Definition of SAP's mobile strategy and development of first mobile business applications in close collaboration with Apple and Microsoft. Team size: 18 consultants and product manager in Walldorf and Palo Alto.

Feb 2007 - Apr 2010
3 years 3 months
Walldorf, Germany

Vice President Financials & HR Business Application Platform

SAP SE

Product definition and development of the application platform for SAP ByDesign for Financials and Human Resources. Team size: 350 FTE in Bangalore and Walldorf.

Aug 2002 - Feb 2007
4 years 7 months
Walldorf, Germany

Vice President Product Management mySAP ERP Financials

SAP SE

GTM and Product definition for all Financials related products including General Ledger, all sub-ledgers like Asset Accounting, Accounts Payables, Account Receivables, Cost Accounting, Product Costing, Profit Center Accounting and Profit Analysis. Team size: 60 FTE in Palo Alto and Walldorf.

Feb 1998 - Aug 2002
4 years 7 months
Walldorf, Germany

Product Manager Profit Center Accounting and Transfer Pricing

SAP SE

Apr 1992 - Feb 1998
5 years 11 months
Germany

SAP Consultant and Project Manager

SAP Deutschland

Leading initially local implementation projects and later global template roll-out projects into multiple countries across the world.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
French
Elementary