Leadership

Muhammad Alam is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He leads the SAP Product & Engineering Board area and has global responsibility for all business software applications.

 

This includes all functional areas, from product strategy, management, design, and development to business transformation, marketing, and running software-as-a-service cloud operations. Alam oversees a broad portfolio encompassing enterprise resource planning for public and private cloud, supply chain management, spend management, business network, human capital management, customer experience, business data cloud & insights, business technology platform, and business transformation management applications, as well as solutions for small and midsize enterprises. He is also responsible for the strategy and development of specialized solutions relevant to a multitude of industries.

 

Before being appointed to the Executive Board, Alam served as president and chief product officer of the Intelligent Spend Management program. He was responsible for product strategy, product management, development, design, and cloud operations for direct and indirect procurement applications, external workforce, travel and expense solutions, and SAP Business Network.

 

Alam started his career with Ernst & Young LLP, where he led implementation projects for many ERP and business applications for some of the largest companies in the world. Before joining SAP, Alam spent 17 years at Microsoft, leading various teams in the Business Applications division, ranging from consulting and customer experience and product success to his most recent role as the corporate vice president of Dynamics 365.

 

In that capacity, he led product strategy, product management, development, and operations for the entire Dynamics 365 application portfolio, growing it into a massive multibillion-dollar cloud business.

 

Alam is a certified public accountant in the United States and has a bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College.