Eric Smit is leading the Global Center of Excellence for Planning & Analysis within SAP. The COE team consist of senior advisors that help customers improve business results with solutions that integrate business intelligence, financial & planning and analysis, machine-learning and predictive analytics capabilities.

Eric has over 25 years of experience in delivering analytics and finance transformation to customers globally in various roles at SAP, Oracle and Hyperion. He has deep knowledge of the challenges organizations face within Finance like Reporting, Planning and Analysis, Profitability, Closing the books and Data Management. He has been instrumental in helping organizations understand the value of adopting best practices for a World Class Finance, reducing Finance FTE’s and Finance cost, truly allowing finance to become a strategic partner to the business.

Eric was part of the original team to kick of the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) solution in 2016 with a particular focus on the planning functionality and has been instrumental in helping to make SAC one of the fastest growing solutions today in SAP.

Eric holds a degree in Economics with a major in Management Information Systems and combines finance and accounting expertise with a deep understanding of both the functional and technical aspects of the SAP Analytics offering.

Tom DiPuccio is a senior commercial strategist and executive leader with a passion for driving value and sustainable growth in the consumer goods and retail sectors. He leads the Retail practice at UiPath as Senior Industry Practice Director after partnering at the epicenter of several the largest global CPG manufacturers and retailers such as Kraft Heinz, Kroger, SC Johnson, Pepsico, amongst numerous others. Beginning his professional career in corporate finance, Tom views the industry through a unique lens never overlooking the importance of translating client pillars into meaningful, efficient, and repeatable returns on investment.

Tom also has distinctive experience in driving strategic growth, expanding white space, and new channel development for emerging, natural, and conventional brands across many consumer categories, including both non-durable and durable goods. After navigating the last several years of volatility within the consumer space, Tom knows that education and knowledge are critical to the experience – but the ability to be nimble, be creative, and be resourceful are what separate the most invaluable partners for retail and CPG firms.

John Roche is a business executive with over 30 years’ experience advising clients by bringing alignment to organizations globally. Using a design thinking approach to problem solving for clients, John advises on technology transformation, building teams, improving productivity, developing top line sales, retaining existing clients and improving margins. He is a Design Thinking coach and facilitator at SAP.