The conservative chemicals industry is now at a cross-roads with unprecedented low oil prices, abundant shale gas reserves, and a changing R&D platform. Companies of all sizes are redefining their portfolios with rapid mergers and divestitures in an attempt to maximize margins and expand markets - industry lines are clearly blurring. Traditional competitive levers are colliding with digital technologies, leading to a once in a generation opportunity to reimagine business models and processes. New leaders are emerging with innovative approaches. This webcast offers SAP’s perspective on the rapid changes that are taking place within the chemicals industry as companies embrace digital technologies.
1. Understand SAP’s digital framework for the chemicals industry
2. Review innovative customer examples
3. Learn how to get started on digital transformation
Speaker
Don Mahoney, Global VP of Chemicals, SAP
Don Mahoney is Vice President and Global Head of Chemicals at SAP. Don is responsible for ensuring superior customer return on IT investment while driving profitable growth in SAP’s solution portfolio for the global chemical industry. Don also sits on the Advisory Board for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship (ICE) at the Villanova School of Business, and the Industry Advisory Board for Enterprise Integration at Penn State University. Don brings with him more than 22 years of experience with various companies in the process industry and its ecosystem, including DuPont, Hyprotech (now AspenTech), Logisight Corp, and Verticore Technologies. Prior to joining SAP, Don co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer for BDMetrics Inc., a cloud-based software company providing CRM, social media, and business intelligence applications to the world’s largest industry associations. Don has a Master’s degree in Engineering from Purdue University; an MBA from the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware; a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Penn State; and is co-author of a university-level engineering textbook entitled A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, published by Wiley.