Photo of Léo Apotheker, member of the Supervisory Board

Léo Apotheker

CEO of SAP AG

Born on September 18, 1953

Mandate and number of AXA shares

  • Elected on May 14, 2007 - Term expires at the 2011 Shareholders' Meeting
  • First elected to the Board in February 23, 2005
  • Number of AXA shares held as of December 31, 2008: 3,160

As of December 31, 2008

Expertise and experience

Mr. Léo Apotheker is a graduate in International Relations and Economics of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before joining ABP Partners, Mr. Apotheker held various positions at McCormack & Dodge Europe and Swift. He also served as founding Chairman and COO of ECsoft, one of the largest European venture capital start-up from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 1995, he was Manager Partner at ABP Partners, a strategic management consulting company specialized in global strategy definition and implementation and in restructuring of ailing software companies. Since joining the SAP Group, Mr. Léo Apotheker has held various positions: from 1995 to 1997, he was CEO and founder of SAP France and SAP Belgium; from 1997 to 1999, Chairman of SAP for the South-West Europe region; from 1999 to 2002, Chairman of SAP EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and from 2002 to 2008, worldwide Chairman Customer Solutions & Operations. From April 2008 to May 2009, Mr. Léo Apotheker was co-CEO of SAP AG. Since June 2009, he has been CEO of SAP AG.

Directorships currently held

  • SAP AG, CEO
  • Director or member of the Supervisory Board:
    SAP America, Inc. (United States)
    SAP Global Marketing Inc. (United States)
    SAP Asia Pte. Ltd (Singapore)
    SAP JAPAN Co., Ltd (Japan)
    SAP FRANCE S.A.
    S.A.P. ITALIA Sistemi, applicazioni, prodotti in data processing S.p.A. (Italy)
    SAP Hellas "Systems Application and Data Processing S.A." (Greece)
    SAP (Beijing) Software System Co., Ltd (China)
    Schneider Electric

Previous directorships held during the last five years

  • SAP AG, co-CEO
  • SAP AG, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and President Customer Solutions & Operations
  • SAP AG, Chairman Global Field Operations
  • Director:
    Ginger S.A.
    SAP Manage Ltd (Israel)
    SAP Systems Integration AG (Germany)
    SAP Finland Oy (Finland)
    SAP Danmark A/S (Denmark)
    Enigma Inc. (United States)
    SAP Svenska Aktiebolag (Sweden)