Allan Fairhurst
VP, Chief Client Officer

Based in Melbourne, Allan Fairhurst is responsible for driving new strategic initiatives for long term revenue growth. As VP, Chief Client Officer, Alan leads a team that focuses on key licence transactions and helps to drive innovation and transformation agenda in the market and with key clients.

Allan joined SAP in September 2004 as General Manager for the Southern region. In 2007, he moved into the role of Vice President, Large Enterprise and in beginning of 2008 moved into the role of VP Strategic Sales.

Prior to joining SAP, Allan held a variety of senior management and sales positions in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and USA.

Richard McLean
Chief Financial Officer

Richard is currently the Chief Financial Officer of SAP Australia and New Zealand, leading an organization of approximately 40 staff across Core Finance, Legal & Contracts, Facilities, Purchasing and IT. Before joining SAP in May 2008, Richard held a number of senior Finance positions in the APJ IT sector, initially with Peoplesoft and more recently, Microsoft. Richard was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and studied in Dundee, Scotland. He then spent 12 years working in the UK in the Investment Banking (Merrill Lynch) and the Automotive (Unipart) industries, before relocating to Australia in 2003.

Graeme Riley
Managing Director, SAP New Zealand

Graeme Riley took on the role of Managing Director, SAP New Zealand in January 2009. Graeme joined SAP from Infor where he was VP Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong. He was responsible for Infor's strategic solutions and channels businesses across the region.

Graeme has extensive enterprise software experience, a successful track record in leading software businesses throughout Asia Pacific and deep knowledge of the New Zealand market.

Lisa Christy
Director, Human Resources

Lisa Christy is Director of Human Resources, SAP ANZ, responsible for supporting SAP's business and enabling the success of the organisation through its human capital. This involves recruiting and retaining top talent, developing and leading employee engagement and building leadership readiness through career development plans.

Lisa has more than 20 years of professional HR experience, working mainly in the IT industry. In her most recent appointment, as Senior HR Manager, Microsoft Australia, she focused on developing leadership capabilities and management excellence. Lisa was previously Senior HR Director at Gartner Asia Pacific, managing the HR strategy and operations across 12 countries. Prior to joining Gartner Lisa worked at Oracle as HRBP and Compensation & Benefits manager for 5 years

Mark Hettler
Director, Active Global Support

Mark is responsible for SAP‘s support and maintenance business, which services customers and their SAP products in the ANZ region. This role includes the additional responsibility of both SAP‘s proactive support service and the company‘s premium maintenance activities, including supporting customers during software upgrades.

Mark and his team of 48 work closely with customers to improve the efficiency and stability of their SAP environments, which benefits customers by helping them leverage and maximise their investments in SAP systems.

Mark first joined SAP in 2006 as Active Global Performance Centre of Expertise (CoE) Manager. Prior to joining SAP, he worked with IBM Global Business Services for over eight years.

Mark has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years and has previously worked in global and national institutions such as BHP Billiton, Lend Lease and the Australian Taxation Office.

Helen Masters,
VP, Commercial Accounts and Emerging Markets

Helen Masters was appointed VP, Commercial Accounts and Emerging Markets in January 2011. In her role she is responsible for Inside Sales, our Channel Business, Customer Relationship Management, and Line of Business Sales.

Previously, Helen held the position of General Manager, Growth Markets ANZ, with dual responsibility for the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of products; and for growing SAP's market share in the SME sector through the SAP channel partner network across ANZ.

Prior to her role at SAP, Helen spent three and half years working as Northern Regional Sales Director at BusinessObjects. Previously, Helen worked at Computer Associates (CA) for nearly 10 years. During her time with CA she had a number of senior sales management and channel roles.

Helen has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Macquarie University.

Shane Grobler,
Chief Operating Officer

As a Chief Operation Officer, Shane is responsible for driving our operational capability encompassing sales operations, inside sales, marketing, value engineering, ecosystem and solutions.

Previously, Shane has led the pre-sales team, and held positions, such as Account Executive and Sales Manager. He has been with SAP in both Australia and South Africa for almost 15 years and brings outstanding experience to the company.

Steve Thompson,
General Manager, ACT and Federal Government

Steve is responsible for managing multi-disciplinary areas of SAP including sales and presales, marketing, resources and administration for Federal Government clients and the ACT branch. In his current role, Steve‘s main objective is to build business relationships with Federal Government and ACT clients, while continuing to leverage SAP products and services in the region.

Steve is a Bachelor of Arts graduate from the University of New South Wales. He studied at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and served in the Australian Defence Force Army for 10 years.