The CFO as Business Integrator

Cedric Read currently acts as a strategic advisor to SAP on theimpact of eBusiness and technology on the finance function. He alsoworks with Atos KPMG, providing consultancy services to CFOs inleading companies ranging from Shell and BP to Diageo andGlaxoSmithKline. Cedric Read served as a management consultant forPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for close to 25 years. In his positionas Global Leader of PwC's Financial Management Consultancy, hewrote two books, CFO: Architect of the Corporation's Future andeCFO: Sustaining Value in the New Corporation. Hans-Dieter Scheuermann is senior vice president of SAP's GeneralBusiness Unit Financials group, which has global responsibility fordeveloping leading-edge new software products to support financialand managerial accounting, strategic enterprise management (SEM),and business analytics. Most recently, he has spearheaded aninitiative to development sophisticated software solutions infinancial supply chain management. Prior to his current position,he coordinated SAP software solutions for the financial servicesindustry.