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.
Nathan Genez is an SAP FI/CO- and SAP NetWeaver BW-certified consultant who has worked with SAP ERP since 1996, with an emphasis on the capital accounting modules: PS, IM, and FI-AA. A former platinum consultant with SAP America, Inc., he has worked with SAP NetWeaver BW since release 1.2B. He is currently a managing partner at Serio Consulting in Houston, Texas.
Peter Jones is a business intelligence solution architect in the areas of CO, EC, SAP NetWeaver, BI, BusinessObjects, Planning and Consolidation, and SEM for MI6 Solutions. He is certified in all areas listed and a subject material expert for SEM, CO, BI, and Planning and Consolidation. He has worked in these areas for SAP and MI6 Solutions during the last 14 years. He is currently involved in projects incorporating the BW 7.3/Planning and Consolidation 10.0 and EPM Excel Add-In V10. He has consulted in all areas above for the last seven years, was an SAP instructor for seven years, and has written several books about SAP NetWeaver BW and FI/CO.
Mitresh Kundalia heads the SAP Practice division at Quality Systems & Software (QS&S). QS&S helps companies achieve world-class performance by realizing their latent business and technological potential with an emphasis on SAP systems. QS&S uses industry-wide best practices and proven implementation tools to integrate complex business processes with the SAP system. With an MBA degree in finance, Mitresh implements financial and logistics applications with specialization in management reporting, Profitability Analysis, information systems, and SAP NetWeaver BW.
Paul Ovigele has worked as an ERP financials consultant since 1997 in both North America and Europe, specializing in implementing the Financial Accounting and Controlling modules along with their integrated areas for companies in the chemical, logistics, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and entertainment industries, among others. Paul has delivered numerous training sessions to finance professionals at both the functional and managerial levels, and he has presented at various SAP financials conferences around the world. He is the author of the book 100 Things You Should Know about Financial Accounting with SAP, published by SAP Press.
Janet Salmon joined SAP AG in 1992. After working as a translator, she became a technical writer for the product costing area in 1993 and then a product manager for the product costing area in 1996. More recently, she has worked on CO content for SAP NetWeaver BW, financial analytics, and role-based portals. She is currently a solution manager in SAP ERP Financials with responsibility for people productivity in this area.
Penny Silvia is a North America leader within IBM for SAP Business Analytics & Technology (BAT) solutions, helping clients create the vision for success with SAP BAT tools and then creating the structure that will bring that vision to life. She is viewed as a creative solutions provider and problem solver for business intelligence and related issues. By combining her technical abilities and business acumen, she is able to successfully converse with C-level executives, technical developers, and business users to help each group understand the challenges of the other and work together to bridge those gaps to build solutions that all sides can agree upon and view as a success.
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.
