SAP and its designated supervisory board chairman Punit Renjen are surprisingly going their separate ways. Renjen will resign his mandate on the control committee at the general meeting in May.
Former Nokia manager Pekka Ala-Pietilä is to be proposed for election to the supervisoryBoard and is also slated to serve as chairman of the board. The reason is the different ideas about the role of the future chairman ofThe supervisory Board. SAP is the largest software manufacturer in Europe.