Marcus leads the SAP Innovation Center Berlin / Potsdam, an innovation team dedicated to exploring the future of enterprise software using the latest technologies. Currently, his team is focusing on enterprise applications of AI, crypto and web3 supporting the next-gen CFO role, which is challenged by an increasingly complex, fast-paced, and volatile economy. In his previous roles, Marcus headed SAP's Intrapreneurship Program, globally, and was responsible for the early-stage ventures in SAP's Venture Studio. He also co-founded and led a venture for on-demand payroll services called FlexPay, as a CEO. Marcus holds a PhD in computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he worked on the computational complexity of combinatorial geometry and graph problems.