Dave Kramp

Director of Sales | LeverX

With an extensive background and over 30 years of experience in product engineering and operations management coupled with SAP ERP and PLM implementation leadership, David Kramp has a unique perspective on the real-world applications of these technologies. Most recently before LeverX David spent many years working for SAP as a Subject Matter Expert in the RD/PLM,and PPM areas. David joined LeverX in January of 2013 to focus his energy on helping other companies navigate their PLM journeys to success.

Peter Demtschenko

Director of Sales | LeverX

Peter Demtschenko is currently the Director of Sales & Strategic Accounts for LeverX. Pete retired from SAP America in March 2015 and joined several ex-SAP colleagues from the original PLM team at SAP now working at LeverX. During his time at SAP Peter was the PLM & PDM Practice Manager and Senior PLM Architect for SAP America for 16 years. Peter supported Sales and Development efforts and worked with the PLM Alliance partners as the Senior PLM Architect on several successful implementation projects.

Achim Rossel

Senior Vice President Business Development | DSC Software AG

Achim Rossel is characterized by his more than 20 years of experience in the field of PLM with various vendors where he was responsible for sales, marketing and partner management. Since 2005, he has been head of business development at DSC Software AG and leads all activities of DSC in the USA.

Dominik Maier

Senior Vice President Products & Development | DSC Software AG

Since joining DSC Software AG in 2014, Dominik Maier has been enriching the company with his know-how and his fascination for smart PLM processes. Prior to this, he worked for many years in the SAP PLM sector, most recently as solution architect at SAP Germany. Since April 2017, Dominik Maier has been leading DSC's Business Unit Products & Development as Vice President. In this position, he is in charge of the company's strategic orientation, as well as the enhancement of existing products.

Jonathan Bächle

Senior Presales Consultant | DSC Software AG

Since his start at DSC Software AG in 2009, Jonathan Bächle has been contributing to DSC’s Products and their enhancement in terms of integrated product development with SAP PLM and CAD. His work also includes activities in the area of Production Planning with Factory Control Center. For almost a decade Jonathan Bächle has been part of DSC’s internationally running projects in many branches like Machinery & Components, Oil & Gas, Automotive Suppliers, Aviation and Medical. Before starting his career at DSC Jonathan Bächle was working as a Business Consultant for ERP processes in areas like Logistics and Production Planning.

Alexander Ballreich

Senior Consultant | DSC Software AG

Alexander Ballreich has 19 years of experience working as a SAP ERP and PLM specialist for DSC Software AG. He spent several years developing the standard solution SAP PLM Integration for NX. Since 2004, he has been managing PLM projects all over the world to ensure his customers’ successful PLM implementation. In addition to his project management activities, in 2019 he became product owner of DSC’s infrastructure add-ons, which handle server related tasks.

Parag Joshi

VP Sales and Marketing | LeverX

Parag has been specializing in SAP technologies past 18 years ranging from consulting, implementations and client program management for large clients like 3M, Altia, etc. Recently Parag has taken on the role of VP Sales and Marketing at LeverX to help clients across industries leverage power of SAP PLM and related software offered by LeverX and partners like Cideon and DSC.

Christoph Fischer

Director, SAP® R&D / Engineering, PLM Solutions | LeverX

Christoph has been specializing in SAP’s R&D / Engineering, Line of Business, for the past 7+ years, helping customers leverage investments in SAP Solutions. Christoph has strengths in SAP’s Engineering Control Center and core PLM technologies, and utilizes his German roots and interest in technology to drive opportunities for business process improvement using SAP software. Prior to his days working in the area of SAP PLM, Christoph was working in the Commercial Insurance / Cyber Risk Management space.

Allen Heindel

Global Process Leader | Crown Equipment Corporation

Allen Heindel has worked for Crown Equipment Corporation for 27 years, most of that time in Engineering supporting CAD and Engineering processes. In recent years Allen has been involved with selection and implementation of SAP as Crown’s global business solution. Allen is currently a global process leader for CAD and visualization.

Nate Emler

Nathan Emler started at Ariel Corporation in 1997 as a drafter within the Design Engineering Group. In 2000, Nathan started creating programs to increase the efficiency of the Design Engineering Group, paving the way for a Programming Group within Engineering. Nathan currently provides programming support for PLM and CAD related software’s and custom software needs of the Design Engineering group in .Net and ABAP languages. Nathan also takes care of all the CAD administrative functions including installation, troubleshooting, and maintain standards across 100+ Solid Edge computers.
His previous year of projects included a drawing distribution system which was utilized Company wide, ERP/PLM workflow programs, and a custom program to upload vendor data into Ariel’s ERP software.

Heath Fesler

Heath Fesler started at Ariel Corporation in 1997 in the Drafting department, since then he has worked in several departments at Ariel including Bill of Material, Field Service, and the Manufacturing floor. In 2012, Heath became the Drafting and Bill of Material Supervisor, shortly after that, he was also assigned the Engineering/PLM “Business Process Owner” role for the SAP implementation. Heath is now the Drafting/Bill of Material/PLM Manager
Heath is a graduate of Central Ohio Technical College, where he received an associate’s degree in Mechanical Drafting and Design, and of the Mount Vernon Nazarene University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.

Attila Sellyei

Product Owner SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Intelligent Product Design | SAP SE

Attila Sellyei has been working for 18 years in the field of software engineering as developer, project manager and product owner. Since 2010, has been a member of PLM product development. His current focus is product manager for the collaboration platform in SAP Intelligent Product Design.

Nita Luiz

Manager of Engineering Enterprise Applications | Varian Medical Systems.

Nita has been a part of Varian for the last 6 years and in her role, she is responsible for managing applications supporting the R&D Engineering function specifically in the sphere of SAP PLM Applications. Her knowledge in the SAP PLM arena covers a multitude of applications such as SAP Engineering Change Record, SAP Product compliance in EHSM, SAP DMS, ECTR CAD Integration, SAP Device Master Record, Project & Resource Management using PPM, Product Lifecycle Costing and SAP Visual Enterprise. Prior to joining Varian, Nita was a Consultant with the SAP practice at Deloitte Consulting.

Tim Flaherty

Executive Vice President , Chief Financial Officer | Enable Injections, Inc.

Tim Flaherty has more than 25 years of public and private company experience in finance, accounting, human resource, and information technology management. At Enable Injections, he is responsible for the finance, accounting, and information technology. Prior to Enable Injections, Tim served as North American CFO for Bonfiglioli, Inc., a leading billion-dollar global Italian owned company in the power transmission market. Tim was nominated for CFO of the year in 2014 by the Cincinnati Business Courier in the large private company category for his achievements at Bonfiglioli, Inc.

Lauri Ventresca

Director, Enterprise Data Management | Hillrom (Welch Allyn)

At Welch Allyn I had a variety of leadership roles in Manufacturing Engineering, New Product Development, and Program management. Since Welch Allyn’s first implementation of SAP back in 2004 (wow, 15 years ago!) I have led the PLM organization at Welch Allyn we call Global Product Data Management (GPDM). Our vision statement is “Design Anywhere/Build Anywhere”.In my current role as the Director of Enterprise Data Management, in addition to the GPDM team, I also have the privilege of managing our HillRom Customer Master Data.
Specialties: Enterprise/Master Data Management, SAP PLM, Engineering Change Management, Organizational Change Management, Project Management, Health Care Data Standards/FDA UDI/GS1, Product Labeling