Irfan Khan is Global Head of Sales for SAP’s Platform and Data Management business with overall responsibility for revenue associated with all data assets of the company including; HANA, EIM, Middleware and SAP big data technologies. Irfan’s responsibilities extend to leading sales for SAP’s PaaS business, SAP Cloud Platform, which enables customers to implement digital transformation, utilizing modern digital innovations around Blockchain, Machine Learning, artificial intelligence and IoT scenarios. He is also the Global Head of the Global Center of Excellence sales support teams for SAP’s Database and Data Management (DDM) line of business.

Prior to his current role, Irfan has been Global Head of DDM’s go-to-market organization as well as overall SAP CTO for SAP’s field organization.

Irfan joined SAP through the acquisition of Sybase Inc. where he was Senior Vice President & CTO. He spent almost two decades in various executive leadership positions across Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.

Irfan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science as well as a Master of Science degree in Advanced Computing from Kings College University of London, UK.