Chris Hallenbeck

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Vice President Database & Technology EMEA

Summary
• Creative global sales and product executive with strong leadership, executive alignment, strategic
planning, and messaging skills.
• Strong track record organizing and integrating product management and user interaction design
teams into agile software development processes.
• Skilled at building productive working relationships with customers, prospects, and engineering
teams.
• Significant background in defining user centric business applications that leverage complex
algorithms such as those developed in operations research for pricing and revenue optimization.
• Proven track record of success and an experienced team member of multiple start-ups.

Experience
Senior Vice President at SAP
October 2015  -  Present  (9 months)
As the head of Sales for Database & Technology EMEA, I work with our customers in Europe, the
Middle East, and Africa to drive innovation and competitive advantage by leveraging SAP HANA,
HANA Vora, ASE, Middleware, HANA Cloud Platform, and Enterprise Information Management
solutions.

Global Vice President, Database & Technology at SAP

July 2014  -  September 2015  (1 year 3 months)
As the head of Solution Management for Database & Technology, I oversee the cross-product
strategy and go-to-market for all of SAP's databases, enterprise information management (EIM),
and middleware technologies, including SAP HANA. Responsibilities for go-to-market include the
pricing, packaging, routes to market, and field enablement for all the products in the portfolio.

Global Vice President, HANA Solution Management at SAP

August 2013  -  July 2014  (1 year)

VP Global HANA Solution Management for Analytics and Development at SAP

March 2012  -  August 2013  (1 year 6 months)

SVP, Chief Technical Officer at ZoomSystems

August 2010  -  October 2011  (1 year 3 months)
 Lead for Product Management, Engineering, IT, and User Interaction Design

Senior Vice President - Product Management at Zoom Systems

October 2009  -  August 2010  (11 months)

Vice President, Product Management at DemandTec Inc.

2002  -  October 2009  (7 years)

Director Technical Consultants at Siebel Systems, Inc.

2001  -  2002  (1 year)

Director Sales Engineering at OnLink Technologies

1999  -  2001  (2 years)

Senior Sales Consultant at Oracle

1996  -  1998  (2 years)

Education
Middlebury College
BA, Economics, Computer Science, 1986 - 1990
Chris Hallenbeck
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Vice President Database & Technology EMEA

2 people have recommended Chris

"While all product management pros should know their customer's problems and pain-points inside-
out, in my experience as a product management consultant, few actually do. Chris is one of the
rare product management leaders who deeply understands his customers pains, problems, and
motivations. His whole outlook on product management is drawn from this very customer and
market-facing perspective, which is a very good - yet very rare - quality. Chris is also a very smart
and nice guy, plus he is a great communicator. It was a pleasure working with him!"

—Sue Raisty, Product Management Consultant & CEO,  Sure Product Consulting, Inc.,  was a
consultant or contractor to Chris at DemandTec Inc.

"Chris and I have worked on numerous projects together ranging from building SAP DW strategy
and roadmap to conducting technical hands-on sessions for Startups and Pre-sales teams. Chris
was a major contributor in each of these projects. He has a very clear thought process, excellent
communications skills and is a TOTAL team player. He is great with managing cross-teams and
has fantastic leadership skills which is why every project he leads end up as a huge success.
What impressed me most about Chris is … how fast Chris was able to navigate through the
complex structures of the organization. He was instantaneously productive and took on massive
responsibilities from the very begining without a slight hint of doubt. He is great in front of C-level
executives, technical audiences and analysts. Chris is a solid leader and I am very certain he has
a great career path towards becoming a top level executive at SAP or anywhere else he decides to
go."

—Uddhav Gupta, Global Vice President - SAP Platform Solution Group - SAP Platform-as-a-
Service,  SAP,  worked directly with Chris at SAP

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