The definitive executive biography of Andreas BORN — a global enterprise-technology leader shaped by transformation programmes, software engineering, customers and five continents.
Andreas BORN is a former SAP Vice President and global enterprise-technology executive with more than 25 years across ERP transformation, product quality, critical-customer recovery, strategic accounts, Cloud ERP, data platforms and Business AI. His career spans Siemens, SAP South Africa, SAP America, SAP Labs in Palo Alto, and global customer leadership assignments in Switzerland, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
He is best understood as a visionary, results-driven builder: someone who creates direction, assembles cross-functional organisations and turns complex technology choices into outcomes that executives, engineers, customers and partners can own together. Through Executive Clarity, he now publishes independent decision frameworks for SAP transformation and the AI-ready enterprise.
Andreas' philosophy begins with clarity: the organisation must understand why the work matters before it can make good decisions about scope, architecture or delivery. He combines high ambition with explicit accountability — clear outcomes, visible trade-offs, measurable quality and a willingness to stop work that no longer creates value.
The next level of leadership is multiplication. Sustainable performance depends on inspiring people, developing future leaders, communicating context and building trusted relationships across functions and cultures. The goal is not a perfectly balanced generalist organisation; it is a team whose distinctive strengths reinforce one another.
Andreas has learned from leaders who created room to grow, customers who challenged comfortable assumptions, engineers who refused vague requirements and colleagues who demonstrated that trust can coexist with high standards. Mentorship matters most when it expands judgement — not simply when it transfers knowledge.
Siemens · Europe and international programmes
Contributed to enterprise-architecture work and more than 40 implementation and rollout assignments during the global transition from SAP R/2 to R/3.
SAP South Africa · Africa
Led SAP landscape-transformation work across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reorganisations, consolidations, upgrades and New General Ledger migrations, with P&L and regional revenue responsibility.
SAP America · Newtown Square, United States
Directed business-critical customer escalations, including production-down and endangered go-live situations, with reporting to SAP executive leadership.
SAP Labs / SAP · Palo Alto and North America
Provided executive oversight for mobile and database production programmes, quality systems, partner platform validation, customer validation and release readiness.
SAP · Switzerland and global accounts
Led strategic customer relationships and transformation execution for major organisations including Nestlé, Swiss Post and SBB.
SAP · Singapore and Asia-Pacific
Served as executive lead for Standard Chartered Bank and PETRONAS, connecting customer strategy, cloud transformation, partners and SAP leadership.
SAP · United Kingdom and global financial services
Led executive engagement for complex financial-services organisations including Barclays, Santander and HSBC.
Independent executive platform and advisory work · Germany and international
Translates SAP Cloud ERP, data, AI, software quality and transformation choices into board-level decision frameworks through sapperment.
Leadership assignments across Africa, North and South America, Europe and Asia.
Direct and functional leadership across programmes, escalations and quality initiatives.
Programme budgets managed for global product-quality and production programmes.
Investment decisions influenced through quality due diligence and release-readiness evidence.
SAP recognised Andreas through its Top Talent programme during his South Africa leadership chapter and as SAP High Potential / Top Talent in 2012 and 2013. These recognitions are documented in SAP Labs' executive immigration support letter. The public profile does not present an inflated awards catalogue; it records only recognition that is supported by available evidence.
The common thread is not geography or job title. It is the ability to operate where strategy, technology, quality and customer consequence meet: landscape transformations that changed the structure of a business; escalations where delay had immediate operational impact; production programmes where quality evidence influenced release and investment decisions; and global accounts where technology had to serve an entire operating model.
The next enterprise will combine transactional systems, governed business context, AI assistants and agents, and human accountability. The leadership challenge is not to maximise automation. It is to design an organisation in which machines can contribute speed and scale without making responsibility invisible.
That is the purpose of Executive Clarity: connect the boardroom decision to the engineering and operating model required to make it real.