EMEA Global Client Forum 2021

Mr. Ravin is a 30-year enterprise software industry veteran who pioneered the independent enterprise software support industry. In 2005, The Enterprise Software Observer named Mr. Ravin one of the 25 next-generation leaders of the enterprise software industry. In 2010, Mr. Ravin was featured in Deal Architect CEO Vinnie Mirchandani’s new book, The New Polymath: Profiles in Compound-Technology Innovations, where he is credited with enacting a visionary, disruptive strategy for dramatically reducing the cost of information technology and ushering in a new era of customer choice.

In September 2005, Mr. Ravin launched Rimini Street, Inc. with a mission to redefine enterprise software support using innovative, next-generation support services delivered at more than a 50 percent savings in fees compared to a software vendor’s annual support program. Rimini Street currently offers support services for Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft and other enterprise software.

Emmanuelle Hose has over 25 years of proven experience in the IT industry, leading enterprise software sales, service, and development operations across 3 continents: Europe, North America, and Oceania.

After serving in several executive roles with global software companies, Ms. Hose was recently leading Rimini Street business operations across Australia and New Zealand, delivering exceptional service to our clients, accelerating sales growth, and extending the leadership position of Rimini Street in the software support market across the region. She joined Rimini Street in 2014 as a Senior Account Executive, then Sales Director, before leading the Australia and New Zealand team as their GVP & General Manager, winning multiple awards along the way.

Ms. Hose relocated to France to lead the Rimini Street expansion across EMEA. Ms. Hose holds a Bachelor of Science (2/1) Hons (Upper Division) in Information Technologies from the University of Brighton (United Kingdom).

Doug, a 29+ year international IT veteran, is the Founder and Managing Partner of Invictus Partners, a software license advisory firm. Prior to setting up Invictus, Doug spent 23 years working in senior sales and advisory positions at SAP, Oracle and IBM across Australia, Asia Pacific and Africa, to drive their licensing business.

Over the last 7 years Doug and his team have been working with clients across Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas, to review and optimise their licenses, assist with software audit defence, manage their software real estate and provide digital transformation advisory.

Doug’s intimate knowledge of the licensing and auditing practices of software vendors including SAP, IBM and Oracle, has enabled him to successfully support clients in the Retail, Manufacturing, Utilities, Public Sector, Oil, Gas and Financial Service industries, advising on each industry’s unique licence challenges. Doug has successfully assisted his clients in reducing their overall spend with these vendors; constructing and negotiate Enterprise and Unlimited Agreements; providing advisory on their platform modernisation initiatives; and developing cloud licensing strategies.

Simon is VP Information Technology, Applications for BrandSafway, based in the UK. He has been working with ERP applications for the past 25 years, running global projects and support teams on both sides of the Atlantic. He has worked for companies including Sanofi, Starbucks, JPL and Cochlear.

His responsibilities include ERPs, Payrolls, Custom Applications, Financial Management Systems, Data Warehousing and BI Reporting. His BrandSafway team are spread globally across 12 countries and continue to support, enhance and expand the applications footprint in 30 countries. The focus is on:

• consolidating footprint arising from M&A activity, which is an impediment to BrandSafway’s business agility
• increasing operational effectiveness & efficiency in our global business processes
• meeting the challenges of ever changing statutory, regulatory and tax requirements around the world

Walter Eckardt is the CIO at LEDVANCE, one of the world’s leaders in general lighting for lighting professionals as well as end users. He brings 30+ years of IT experience in various management positions, most of them in the semiconductor and high-tech industry. He is currently driving LEDVANCE’s way into digital future which is essentially a paradigm shift from a process driven IT towards a data driven process and tool landscape. This comes along with using SaaS solutions only to leverage leading edge technology in ML and AI.

Emerging from the general lighting business of OSRAM, the company is now owned by Chinese lighting company MLS Co., Ltd. LEDVANCE has offices in over 50 countries and business activities in more than 140 countries.