Mike Flannagan is a Senior Vice President at SAP, responsible for Analytics products, and leads global portfolio and go-to-market strategy for SAP Leonardo. In this role, he is responsible for products that accelerate innovation and enable digital transformation for the world’s largest companies. Mike’s team drives the strategy behind SAP Leonardo, which employs design thinking to find the toughest business problems across numerous industries and unites technologies from Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, Blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the SAP Cloud Platform to solve them.
Prior to joining SAP, Mike was Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data & Analytics Software Group at Cisco Systems. Mike is engaged with the start-up community as an angel investor, mentor and board member. He has been granted multiple patents, is a published author, and frequent keynote speaker at industry events.
Mike is honored to serve on the Board of Directors for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. GPSDD was launched in 2015, alongside a new global framework for sustainable development, adopted by world leaders during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Mike attended The University of Texas at San Antonio before earning his MBA from Auburn University, where he is now a guest lecturer and serves on Advisory Boards for the College of Business and the Graduate School.
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