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Pretzel Logic covers my thoughts on performance acceleration in the enterprise via social software, the software vendor landscape and on occasion, a healthy rant or two about unrelated stuff that’s on my mind. Content here is mine and not the opinion of SAP.

Contact Information:

Twitter: sameerpatel | Linked In: Profile | Skype: sameerapatel | Email: Sameer | Tumblr: My Food Blog | Google Plus: Sameer

Here’s a little about me

Work:

I’m currently GM of SAP’s Enterprise Social Software Business responsible for Strategy, Product, Go-to-market, Sales and Marketing. Here’s why I joined.

I have 15 years of enterprise software leadership experience working with some of the largest organizations in the world on business execution via collaboration and application technology. Customers have included Intel, Nike, CA, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, XO Communications, Symex, McKesson, Wrigley, others. I’m privileged to sit on the advisory boards of Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Defrag Conference, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation and The Social Business Forum, Milan.

Opinion:
I blog about enterprise performance acceleration via the decisive use of social and collaborative approaches and technology and how trends in enterprise, cloud, mobile and social software will impact business at pretzellogic.org. I’m also a member of the Enterprise Irregulars.
Education
I got my Bachelors in Corporate Finance, Securities and Economics from Babson College in Wellesley, MA and a Masters degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Boston University’s School of Management(Masters thesis in Knowledge Management), in Boston MA and a certified Associate in Risk Management Designation (ARM) by the AICPCU.
Industry:
I’ve keynoted and spoken at events such as the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, The Social Business Forum, Milan, SIIA, WebCom Toronto, KMWorld,  The Future of Talent, Defrag, GigaOm Net:Work, GigaOm Mobile Enterprise Summit, amongst others. More here.
Press:
I’ve been fortunate to be quoted in news publications on how to accelerate business performance via social and collaborative concepts and on enterprise social software trends. Publications include  The New York Times, Forbes, CNBC, CIO.com, ZDNet, Social Media Today, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb and other news outlets. More here.

I entered the working world before college in the foreign exchange business, working for a financial services firm in their offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Mumbai, Dubai and Sydney. In my fitter days, I was a nationally ranked Squash player and a state record holder as a Swimmer in India.

I live in Palo Alto, California with my wonderful wife and two children. And I love to cook.

Photo Credit: Tom Raftery

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