Advisors
Only the world's top experts write for the SAPexperts, and our board of technical advisors ensures their guidance is proven to help you solve technical challenges, improve day-to-day efficiencies, and complete major SAP projects with ease — guaranteed. They help deliver expertise to you that's free of sales pitches and hidden agendas. Take a moment to meet these individuals below — they play an important role in the expertise you get every week.
Jayne Gibbon, CPA, is a director of GRC Support at SAP. Prior to joining SAP in 2007, Jayne worked for eight years at a Fortune 200 manufacturing company. She worked in various areas including internal audit and computer security. Part of her experience included leading the very first implementation of Virsa's Compliance Calibrator.
Peter Hofer, CISA, CISSP, is a senior manager at Turnkey Consulting, UK. He has more than 12 years of experience implementing controls within the SAP environment, initially as part of the Deloitte Process & Systems Integrity team, and more recently with Turnkey Consulting. Peter has worked in pharmaceutical, mining, manufacturing, and FMCG environments across Europe and Africa. Peter delivers courses on "SAP for Auditors" and "SAP Authorization Concepts, Design, and Implementation."
Jim Mottern is the managing director of JMA Advisors, serving a wide variety of companies. He has more than 25 years of experience with ERP systems, performance improvement/cost reduction, and Sarbanes-Oxley controls. Jim has worked with a wide variety of technology, consumer goods, health care and defense companies in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. He is a frequent speaker on GRC topics and an advisor to software companies on CFO matters. Jim is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and is Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM). He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Idaho and his MBA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Frank Rambo, Ph.D, is director of SAP GRC Regional Implementation Group (RIG) in the EMEA region. Prior to this position, he worked eight years for SAP Germany as a senior consultant focusing on SAP security, identity management, and SAP NetWeaver Portal. Before he joined SAP in 1999, Frank worked as a physicist in an international research team. Frank lives in Hamburg, Germany.
Kees van Westerop is senior consultant with Kwest Consulting. He has been working as an SAP consultant for more than 15 years. He has an MBA degree in mathematics and a degree in finance. His main experience lies in the areas of legal accounting, bank accounting, and consolidation. He also has a great deal of experience with international rollouts of kernel systems and integrating finance and logistics, especially to ensure that legal requirements are met. He lives in Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
