Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone) announced the appointment of Luka Mucic as Chief Financial Officer, effective from 1 September 2023. Luka will be joining the Vodafone team. He has a strong track record of international leadership, corporate repositioning and value-creation.

Luka is joining the company at a critical time as the company undertake the transformation of Vodafone. Luka Mucic was the Chief Operating Officer of SAP SE from 2014-2017 and its Chief Financial Officer from 2014 until 31 March 2023. During these roles, he was responsible for SAP's groupwide Finance, Legal, Data Protection, Procurement, Audit, Risk Management, Security, IT and process management functions.

He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Heidelberg Materials AG, a building materials company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. He was previously a non-executive director of the Board of Qualtrics International, a company that was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange, between 28 January 2021 and 28 June 2023. Luka began his career at SAP in 1996 and has held a series of management positions within the Global Finance and Administration division.

He assumed responsibility for M&A projects, as well as for the global risk management function of SAP and the legal department of SAP Markets Europe. After serving as CFO of SAP's DACH region (comprising Germany, Austria and Switzerland) from 2008 to 2012, he became head of Global Finance and a member of SAP's Global Managing Board in 2013. Luka also oversaw SAP's sustainability efforts and was responsible for SAP's Taulia and SAP Signavio business units.

Luka studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg and obtained a joint Executive MBA from Mannheim Business School and ESSEC Paris.