Peter Giese is Director of SAP Open Source Program Office. Peter is focusing on refining SAP’s open source strategy, developing new tools and approaches for managing open source at scale and on further promoting inner source at SAP. Since joining SAP in 1996, Peter has held several managerial and executive positions in application and technology development. Before joining SAP, Peter worked as researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and as development manager at Kiefer & Veittinger Software Unternehmensberatung GmbH. Peter holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Kaiserslautern University of Technology.