Christian Klein

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  • Company/Affiliation
    SAP
  • Title
    CEO and Chairman
  • Country/Territory
    Germany
  • Years on List
    New in 2025

Christian Klein sits at the top of Europe’s enterprise software sector. He made the business go cloud-first, embedding AI into SAP’s core business processes. He pushed through unification of SAP’s previously disparate SaaS acquisitions onto a single, cohesive platform with a unified strategy. The result: SAP is Europe’s most valuable company with a roughly $350 billion market cap.