SAP today announced that it has hired Uwe Herold as its new chief information officer.As of October 1, 2006, Herold will be based in Walldorf, Germany, where he joins the Board area Human Resources, Processes & Production reporting directly to Claus Heinrich, member of the Executive Board. Herold has 15 years of business process engineering and IT management experience.Coming to SAP from the automotive supplier Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co, Germany, as CIO he was responsible for the Brose Group information systems Germany as well as for the introduction and migration of various SAP applications.

Before joining Brose in 1999, Herold worked for Hydac Filtertechnik GmbH, Germany, where he headed up the company's process engineering and organizational development.

He replaces Carol Wilson, who had been SAP's global CIO for three years. She left in April 2006 to join Indian I.T. outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services as implementation director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

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Prashanth Rai