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Carsten Hilker is the global solution owner for Central Finance. He is the emcee and host of the annual SAP Financial Excellence Forum, an annual event for SAP customers to network and interact with domain experts and thought leaders in finance and management accounting. He has been working in the field of financial and management accounting for 20+ years in various roles including development, consulting, and product management.
Javaid Awan is a qualified accountant with 25 years hands on experience in software applications. He has held roles as a member of IT leadership teams, CIO, transformation director, dev ops director, chief architect, and head of share services, and he has led large-scale delivery for major transformations globally. Javaid has worked in finance, treasury, sales, HR, procurement, supply chain, and analytics in the consumer goods, life sciences, oil and gas, telecoms, media, manufacturing, and public sector industries.
David Dixon is a partner at TruQua Enterprises. He has been a featured speaker worldwide at SAPinsider conferences. He co-authored the book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse with Bill Inmon as well as white papers on business intelligence and enterprise performance management. David started his career in 1995 as a FI-CO consultant with SAP specializing in financial consolidations, product costing, and profitability analysis with particular expertise in ERP information systems and tools. David is not only an executive and practicing consultant, but also a hands-on developer with skills that span functional and technical domains. He has worked with SAP's development team in Walldorf and Palo Alto on numerous occasions in support of applications and initiatives in the SAP S/4HANA, EPM, and BI spaces.
Marc Six is a partner at TruQua, an IBM Company. He has been a featured speaker at worldwide SAP finance conferences, broadcasts, and shows throughout the last decade; he has co-authored the E-Bite Introducing SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing (AFC) and other finance thought leadership material focused on business transformation and change. Marc began his career in 2014 as a financials and controlling consultant at SAP specializing in SAP S/4HANA, Central Finance, and the managerial accounting, period-end close, and consolidation process areas. While he is an SAP functional and technical expert, Marc also has experience in management consulting gained during time spent at KPMG as a senior consultant in the advisory practice. Marc has helped dozens of Central Finance customers implement high-value global solutions since the product's earliest versions, and he continues to be a proven industry leader in project roadmap construction, business case development, and business process optimization and improvement.
