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Angela Qu
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13 12 Etosha Thurman
Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer of Intelligent Spend and Business Network
SAP
Angela Qu
Chief Procurement Officer
Lufthansa Group
• Etosha Thurman first joined SAP in 2010 leaving after 10 years , and rejoining in 2021
• She studied at the University of Cincinnati and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• Thurman ' s industry skills include Strategic Sourcing , ERP , Supply Chain , SAP , Enterprise Software , Negotiations and eCommerce
Profile
Thurman is the Chief Marketing and Solutions Officer of Intelligent Spend and Business Network at SAP and in the last 26 years has built a strong career in the procurement technology space . She began her career journey at Procter & Gamble in 1996 as a Senior Purchasing Manager .
Thurman ’ s first stint at SAP was in 2010 where she took on the role of Network Program Manager at SAP Ariba . After 10 years at the company she worked her way up to Head of Global Business Network .
In her role , Thurman is in charge of strengthening SAP ’ s go-to-market approach , driving product marketing and solutions management across the company ’ s intelligent spend solutions and SAP Business Network .
• Studied at ETH Zurich and IMD , started in Lufthansa Group in 2019
• Specialties include organisational transformation and people development
Profile
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A strategic and entrepreneurial executive with advisory board and non-executive-director experience Angela Qu has worked for more than 25 years in large multinational companies , such as ABB and Siemens , focusing on organisational transformation , people development , procurement and supply chain .
Currently Qu is the Chief Procurement Officer at Lufthansa Group . She is responsible for all strategic procurementrelated activities , managing US $ 22.1bn in spend ( 2019 ), 40,000 suppliers , and more than 300 categories .
Qu ’ s passion is to transform the procurement function into a strategic enabler of value creation for customers , employees and societies in a sustainable way .
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