Elke Speliopoulos

Elke Speliopoulos is a seasoned product and program manager. Most recently, Elke led the global midmarket program for the SAP Trading Industries group. In this role, she developed solutions and accompanying go-to-market approaches for SAP’s Retail and Wholesale midmarket solution. In addition, she held global responsibility for the partner ecosystem for Trading Industries. Prior to this, Elke successfully drove the strategic new product introduction of SAP CRM on-demand, SAP’s first SaaS offer in the CRM area, as the global program lead. In her over eleven years with SAP, Elke further led the Americas’ SAP NetWeaver product management team for the SAP Enterprise Portal, Knowledge Management and Collaboration topics. She worked on portal-related topics since the introduction of mySAP Workplace in September 1999. Elke also managed the ASUG (Americas’ SAP User Group) relationship as the technology manager working with in her role as part of the Product Requirements Planning team. Her SAP career began as a product manager in the Business Process Technology team in Walldorf where she worked with the solutions around SAP Business Workflow, SAP Exchange Connector and SAP Archive Link. Prior to SAP, Elke was a consultant for another ERP vendor in Germany, and a systems analyst for a risk insurance company in Rhode Island. She holds a B.S. in Health Services Administration, Summa cum Laude, from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.