Founder of 5 different companies, among them: SAP SE, INCHRON GmbH and D-LABS GmbH, Hasso Plattner is a German entrepreneur and businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies and presently is Chairman-Supervisory Board at SAP SE (which he founded in 1972) and Chairman-Supervisory Board at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG (a subsidiary of SAP SE) and Managing Director at HPC Germany GmbH & Co. KG. He is also Professor at Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH (he founded the company in 1998). Dr. Plattner previously occupied the position of Chairman-Supervisory Board of D-LABS GmbH (he founded the company in 2006) and Chairman-Supervisory Board at INCHRON GmbH (he founded the company in 2009). Dr. Plattner received a graduate degree from the University of Karlsruhe.