SAP chief know-how officer Juergen Mueller will depart the corporate by the tip of September due to inappropriate conduct.
“I wish to handle an incident at a previous firm occasion the place my behaviour was inappropriate. I remorse being thoughtless and sincerely apologise to everybody affected,” Mueller mentioned in an e-mailed assertion on Tuesday. “I take full accountability and imagine stepping down is finest for the corporate.”
Mueller, who’s accountable for getting ready the corporate so as to add extra cloud computing clients and spearheaded SAP’s “enterprise know-how platform”, joined in 2013 and was named to the manager board as CTO in 2019. In April, his contract was prolonged till the tip of 2027.
CEO Christian Klein will assume accountability for many of the board’s know-how and innovation actions and Thomas Saueressig will take over Mueller’s group in world safety and cloud compliance, the assertion mentioned.
A consultant for SAP declined to remark additional on the character of the incident. Mueller couldn’t instantly be contacted.
It’s not the primary incident to boost issues concerning the tradition at SAP.
In 2022, two former feminine staff got here ahead saying that they had been raped by colleagues throughout after-work occasions on enterprise journeys. They struggled to persuade their very own HR group that the sexual advances occurred with out consent.
Tradition of harassment
SAP mentioned on the time that it takes allegations of misconduct and legal behaviour “terribly severely” and mentioned it had launched inner inquiries and totally supported investigations with regulation enforcement.
Girls have additionally beforehand complained a few tradition of bullying and harassment that retains feminine staff out of government positions. — Sonja Wind, (c) 2024 Bloomberg LP
