Hiroyuki Kowase

From meeting in July '24: Kowase-san: Two daughters went to uni in america > U of Georgia and Ohio State. NCAA tenis both. Married, one lives in Stocholm and the other in Manhatten with their husbands. Implemented ECC R2 in '95. Implemented SAP in over 100 entities. ---- He has been involved with SAP for nearly 20 years and is currently the CIO of Ebara Corporation. He is also deeply involved with JSUG” Japanese User Association” and has given various lectures at JSUG and the closing session of Sapphire Tokyo 2022. He started out with Kao's SAP implementation project, and after serving as CIO of LIXIL and Shiseido, he took up his post at Ebara Corporation in 2018. He has worked on numerous SAP projects, and in 2019 Ebara Corporation decided to adopt S/4 on a. large scale. (On Prem XXXMJPY) In 2020, he also signed contracts with peripheral solutions such as Ariba/Concur. In 2021, he leaves many comments on FY21 NPS, but very angry that SAP didn’t response for it. In 2023, he was awarded the CIO of the Year by Nikkei Crosstech.