Michael Byczkowski

Michael Byczkowski is Global Vice President and Head of Healthcare Industry at SAP SE.

Michael’s key motivation is to help create sustainable business value and contribute to improving people’s lives.

With more than twenty-five years of experience in IT and consulting, Michael has a broad background in customer engagements, business development, strategic alliances management, and developer/platform strategy.

After finishing his diploma in Mathematics, Michael started his professional career at a German utility company, focusing on Business Process Reengineering and Privacy/Data Security. Twenty years ago, he joined SAP’s Industry Business Unit for the utilities industry, working abroad in Singapore for three years where he was leading the regional product management for Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Following this assignment, Michael headed the Microsoft global alliance team at SAP for nine years and established the joint SAP-Microsoft Collaboration Technology Support Center before leading the Gateway strategy, a technology that provides a simple way to connect devices, environments and platforms to SAP software based on market standards, of SAP’s global ecosystem organization. Having spent five years, focusing on strategic customer projects to demonstrate innovative methods and approaches for creating tangible value, Michael took over the global responsibility for SAP’s industry business in healthcare and focuses on strategic customer and partner engagements.

Michael lives in Walldorf, Germany.