Speaker Name : Kaj Van de Loo
Company : SAP AG
Title : SVP for Platforms and On Demand

Kaj van de Loo is Senior Vice President for Platforms and On Demand in the Office of the CTO of SAP AG. Leading SAP’s center of excellence for Platforms and On Demand within the Office of the CTO, he is responsible for providing technology leadership and translating business objectives into strategic product and technology directions for the technology platforms of the company.

Kaj has more than 15 years experience within the SAP ecosystem, as customer, partner, as well as within SAP. Prior to assuming his current position at SAP, Kaj was the Vice President of Engineering at Questra, a provider of Intelligent Device Management solutions that bring real world devices into business processes.

Before that, Kaj held various development, product management, and technology strategy roles within SAP. His primary focus in development and product management was solutions and applications for discrete manufacturing industries and early e-commerce and marketplace applications. After that he initiated and drove SAP’s corporate SOA strategy.

Kaj holds a Masters degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Sweden. His experience includes nuclear physics engineering and management at ABB as well as definition and development of business applications and technology for business applications at SAP and a start-up. He is based in SAP Labs in Palo Alto, CA.