SAP SA's Lawrence Kandaswami on making the world a better place through The Sun International CEO SleepOut™
While 'the bottom line' and profit making is at the core of many corporates, some of them still care about something quite fundamental to human life: making the world a better place. Let SAP South Africa's MD Lawrence Kandaswami share his thoughts on this.
Various leaders in the corporate, diplomatic and public sector spaces have different motivations for participating in The Sun International CEO SleepOut™. SAP SA's Lawrence Kandaswami is quite forthright about his: “I am looking forward to it, it’s a good cause and our vision as an organisation is to help the world run better and to improve peoples’ lives.”
In this capacity, Lawrence is responsible for SAP's business across the African continent.
Lawrence was appointed Managing Director of SAP South Africa in April 2016. In this role, he is responsible for executing SAP South Africa’s strategy, driving regional efforts to fulfil SAP’s vision to improve peoples’ lives, partnering with our customers to implement Sap solutions that beat complexity to run simple, run digital, and run better.
Lawrence joined SAP in 2008. During this time, he has proven his leadership qualities and business acumen in many different areas of the business, including Consulting, Presales, Strategic Customer Sales, Platform Solutions Group Sales, and Business Analytics.
Lawrence’s career path has also included heading up SAP South Africa’s Public Sector organisation. This accumulated experience has helped him build a complex integrated understanding of the SAP value proposition, strategic path and the partner and customer ecosystem.