Webinar - Progressing Interpublic Group of Companies Inc.'s (IPG) Journey to S/4HANA with SAP Suite on HANA

Summary

With over 50,000 employees serving all major world markets, the Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (IPG) specializes in consumer advertising, digital marketing, communications planning, media buying, public relations, and specialty marketing.

Recently, the company launched a project to migrate its business software that had been running on 26 outdated physical servers to state-of-the-art platforms. At the same time, IPG wanted to create a road map for upgrading to the leading edge in enterprise resource planning software. 

Speakers

Orhan Ozalp
Executive Director, SAP Global Solutions
Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG)

Orhan is a progressive IT leader with more than 20 years of ERP experience, primarily with SAP, and a proven track record establishing noteworthy partnerships with the business community and implementing strategic initiatives. Orhan’s background includes successfully envisioning and executing IT strategies, supervising global business transformation and technology implementations, as well as managing and cultivating large global IT teams.

Orhan has comprehensive experience delivering technology solutions, managing application development, designing IT platform architecture, and more recently, building the road map and strategy for enterprise digital transformation, artificial intelligence and robotic process automation.

Jeff Clark
VP of SAP Solutions
GROM

Jeff joined GROM after serving as a Principal Consultant, Client Partner and Client Engagement Director with SAP America for nine and a half years. Jeff assisted many of SAP’s largest Fortune 2000 clients with business and implementation strategies. Jeff ultimately managed SAP’s consulting practice for the Mid-Atlantic Region. Jeff is currently the Vice President of Solutions at GROM where he is responsible for managing the solutions development organization and for delivery of project related business. Jeff also leads GROM’s Strategy Consulting Team.

Jeff has BA’s in International Political Economy and Spanish Literature from Syracuse University. He also holds an International MBA from University of South Carolina. Jeff is certified in Sales and Distribution, Supply Chain Planning, S/4HANA and S/4HANA Cloud, and Business Analytics. He also holds certifications in Value Engineering, RunSAP, and Project Management.