Dr. Markus Winter has been working in the field of landscape optimization and virtualization for the last fifteen years and has driven virtualization & cloud computing within the SAP group since then. Whilst serving in different departments and regions he soon realized the impact of virtualization technology on landscape architecture and IT business processes. Today, he is located at SAP's headquarters in Germany leading the Virtualization & Cloud Management product unit as Chief Product Owner. Markus holds an engineering degree in Media Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany and an engineering doctorate in Business Information Technology from Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.