Ruud Blommaert has more than 25 years of IT experience in the big data, cloud, business intelligence, and corporate performance management sectors and more than 20 years of experience specifically in the SAP ecosystem. Prior to joining Red Hat, Ruud spent 10 years at Seagate Software Business Objects as a consultant and project manager, responsible for various international projects in parallel. When Ruud joined SAP Netherlands as a product manager, he moved more into commercial roles and responsibilities such as pre-sales, alliance management, marketing, and sales development. Ruud's focus is to help SAP customers & partners successfully with their SAP S/4HANA strategy & journey, by enabling Red Hat Solutions.