Carsten Hilker is the global solution owner for Central Finance. He is the emcee and host of the annual SAP Financial Excellence Forum, an annual event for SAP customers to network and interact with domain experts and thought leaders in finance and management accounting. He has been working in the field of financial and management accounting for 20+ years in various roles including development, consulting, and product management.
Javaid Awan is a qualified accountant with 25 years hands on experience in software applications. He has held roles as a member of IT leadership teams, CIO, transformation director, dev ops director, chief architect, and head of share services, and he has led large-scale delivery for major transformations globally. Javaid has worked in finance, treasury, sales, HR, procurement, supply chain, and analytics in the consumer goods, life sciences, oil and gas, telecoms, media, manufacturing, and public sector industries.
David Dixon is a partner at TruQua Enterprises. He has been a featured speaker worldwide at SAPinsider conferences. He co-authored the book Mastering the SAP Business Information Warehouse with Bill Inmon as well as white papers on business intelligence and enterprise performance management. David started his career in 1995 as a FI-CO consultant with SAP specializing in financial consolidations, product costing, and profitability analysis with particular expertise in ERP information systems and tools. David is not only an executive and practicing consultant, but also a hands-on developer with skills that span functional and technical domains. He has worked with SAP s development team in Walldorf and Palo Alto on numerous occasions in support of applications and initiatives in the SAP S/4HANA, EPM, and BI spaces.
Marc Six is a principal consultant and the SAP S/4HANA and Central Finance practice lead at TruQua Enterprises. Marc started his SAP career working in the SAP MaxAttention Center of Excellence on the financials team where, among other things, he worked alongside SAP's top clients and SAP Development teams in some of the earliest adoption projects of SAP Simple Finance, Central Finance, and ultimately SAP S/4HANA. Marc also has experience as a senior consultant in the enterprise solutions SAP practice at KPMG. His experience spans from process optimization and design to implementation strategy and delivery.