March 31, 2016

SAP Africa announces the appointment of

Lawrence Kandaswami as Managing Director
of its South African business.

Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA SAP Africa today announced the appointment of Lawrence
Kandaswami as Managing Director of its South African business. Kandaswami brings to the
role almost two decades of management experience, having held senior positions in various
blue chip South African organisations including De Beers and BusinessObjects.

Kandaswami joined SAP South Africa in 2008 and was most recently the Head of SAP South
Africas Public Sector organization. During his SAP tenure, he has held various leadership
roles in the areas of Consulting, Presales, Strategic Customer Sales, Platform Solutions
Group Sales and Business Analytics.

It is an exciting time to become the leader of an organization that is spearheading Digital

Transformation and the innovation agenda in Africas most advanced economy, said
Kandaswami. Despite these challenging economic times, SAP is enabling its customers to
simplify so they can operate more efficiently and simultaneously innovate, so they remain
relevant and competitive in a dynamic Digital Economy. Success for SAP is about helping our
customers effectively exploit the power of our Digital Data Platform SAP HANA and its
world-class applications and analytics - so they can reimagine how they create and maintain
value.

Commenting on Kandaswamis appointment, Brett Parker, SAP Africa CEO said,"We are
delighted that Lawrence has taken on this important role at SAP Africa. He will be responsible
for executing SAPs South Africa strategy and his proven track record of leadership and
business acumen will greatly benefit SAP customers, partners and employees in South Africa
as one of our key African markets. I am confident that Lawrence will effectively drive our
regional efforts to fulfil SAPs vision of improving peoples lives by partnering with our
customers to implement SAP solutions that beat complexity to run simple, to run digital and
to run better."
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