Scott Russell has been appointed president of SAP Asia Pacific Japan, taking on the role from Adaire Fox-Martin, who was recently promoted to the SAP Executive Board to lead global customer operations alongside Jennifer Morgan.
Russell will be responsible for growing the SAP business across Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
He was previously president and managing director for SAP Southeast Asia (SEA), who was instrumental in driving strategy, operations and growth across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and other emerging markets. He also held the role of chief operating officer for SAP in APJ between 2014 and 2016, and was senior vice president of SAP APJ Services prior to this. Russell was also managing consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and led the Systems Integration and Application Maintenance business for IBM Australia New Zealand.
“Our customers are looking to SAP for a vision of their digital future and for flexibility and choice in the way they consume technology,” said Jennifer Morgan, SAP Executive Board member and president, Americas and Asia Pacific Japan.
“In a region as diverse as APJ, the opportunity has never been bigger for SAP to continue to transform our customers’ businesses and help them grow and thrive in the 21st century economy. Scott’s vision and commitment to the customer, together with his impressive technology background and leadership experience, make him the right leader to help write the next chapter of SAP APJ’s growth and innovation story.”
Russell said he is honoured to be leading the APJ business.
“SAP is an innovation-driven company that has helped enterprises and small and midsize businesses digitalise and simplify, and our innovation is inspired by our vision to help the world run better and improve people’s lives,” said Russell.
“The fourth industrial revolution has created unprecedented opportunity to fundamentally improve the state of Asia – across society, the economy and the environment. By infusing our innovation into our purpose, SAP’s innovative solutions, built on SAP HANA and in the cloud, empower private and public organisations in Asia Pacific to become sustainable digital businesses.”
