Marc Geall is a member of the executive leadership team within SAP’s Global Channel & General Business Organization. In this role he has responsibility for partner adoption of SAP’s strategic platforms including HANA and HANA Cloud Platform. The team has recruited over 1,300 build partners that are innovating on SAP’s platforms and manages the recruitment, onboarding, enablement, commercialization and support of partner IP on the platform.Marc has split his career between industry, enterprise software, and financial services. Until 2012 he was a Managing Director heading up Technology, Media and Telecoms Equity Research at Deutsche Bank. Prior to this, he was head of Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Investor Relations at Autonomy, a role that incorporated being CEO of Virage the Rich Media subsidiary of Autonomy. Other relevant roles have included head of Software and IT Services Research at Citi, and senior application engineer at PTC in the product lifecycle management (PLM) space.Marc has a Master's degree in Engineering from Cambridge University, specializing in Aerodynamics and Aeronautics and started his career at Rolls Royce (Aerospace Division).