The Future of Finance: Leading the AI-Powered Enterprise

Colin Cosell is a professional emcee, announcer, and executive communications expert with more than 25 years of experience across television, radio, film, stage, and corporate events. When he’s not at the lectern or moderating executive panels, Colin serves as the Public Address Announcer for the New York Mets, Army Football, the Premier Lacrosse League, and numerous other professional and collegiate teams. Over the course of his career, Colin has earned three Emmy Awards and has announced to more than 30 million attendees worldwide. His greatest source of pride, however, are his wife, Julia, and their little girl, Eloise.

As the head of Finance and Spend Management Solution Area for SAP Americas, David Thompson is responsible for driving sales execution, go-to-market strategy, customer success, and operations across a number of solutions in the SAP portfolio, including SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP Concur and Taulia, as well as oversight over SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and Office of Chief Financial Officer (public and private cloud) offerings.

Since joining SAP in October 2005, David has held a variety of senior roles within the organization, namely within Customer Success, Global Strategic Initiatives (GSI), Finance, and Customer Support. Most recently, David was the Chief Revenue Officer for SAP Concur in North America and was responsible for the strategic vision, direction, and engagement model of that solution area. Previous to that role, David held leadership positions in the East Market unit (as the Regional Vice President for Industries and as the Chief Operating Officer (COO), headed up Global Strategic Industries (GSI) for the Americas, and spent five years within SAP’s Finance organization in roles within Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Corporate Controlling.

Throughout his time with the company, David has been consistently recognized as a key leader and top performer by the regions, and his vast institutional knowledge and broad network have provided incredible value to the Field and to our customers. His track record of driving mutually beneficial outcomes with customers has helped drive software and cloud transformation in the Americas.

David received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, International Business from St. Joseph’s University. He lives in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, with his wife Amanda and two children, David III and Adalyn. Outside the office, he enjoys spending quality time with his family and traveling to new places.

Joe is a Principal in the Corporate Services practice. With over 18 years of experience, Joe specializes in providing enterprises with management consulting, with an emphasis on assisting large global corporations with their finance transformation initiatives. He has distinctive competencies in finance operating model development, enterprise performance management, and process optimization.

Mike serves as CTO, SAP Advisory for KPMG US and plays a critical role in the firm’s SAP Advisory business, including managing the innovation portfolio, expanding delivery capabilities, and engaging with clients in SAP transformations. He is a senior executive with core competencies in global business transformation, information technology, and operations, with a focus on SAP solutions and platforms. With more than 30 years of experience, Mike is a visionary, truly global leader focused on business results with a strong background in software and services industries.

Most recently, he served as SAP’s leader of Customer Advisory North America which included industry, value, architecture and solution advisory. Prior to this role, Mike was their CIO Americas leading IT transformations and enterprise-wide business initiatives through people, processes, and technology. Engaging with CxO peers and showcasing transformation experiences elevated IT to be a strategic asset and sales enabler for customer success.