OREANDA-NEWS. Since April 15, Andrei Filatov will become SAP CIS CEO, the company said.

The top manager has already worked at SAP from 2007 to 2010. Then he led sales in Russia, Belarus, Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, was responsible for strategic planning and participated in the development of the company in Ukraine, headed SAP offices in Kazakhstan and  Ukraine, says a representative of SAP.  In 2010, Filatov moved to IBM, in 2015, he became CEO of IBM in Russia and the CIS and worked in this position for almost two and a half years - until November 2018.

Natalia Parmenova was the previous CEO of SAP in Russia and the CIS. She left in October 2018, having worked in this position for nine months. After her departure, Dmitry Krasyukov performed the duties of the general director. Now he will continue to work in SAP as an executive director, specified in the message of the company.

As a rule, the predecessors of Filatov occupied the position of general director of SAP for a little less than two years. Prior to Parmenov, the company was headed by Pavel Gontarev - from March 2016 to January 2018, his predecessor Vyacheslav Orekhov occupied this post in 2014. From July 2011 to January 2013, the company was headed by Igor Bogachev, who later became the head of the IT cluster  Skolkovo, from where he moved to Tsifra, a company engaged in industrial Internet of things.

Earlier, SAP CIS was led by Vladislav Martynov, now known as the general director of Yota Devices (the developer of the YotaPhone dual - screen smartphone) and member of the supervisory board of the Ethereum Foundation blockchain platform.