Keynotes
Marge Breya
Executive Vice President & General Manager, Solutions, SAP
Marge Breya is executive vice president and general manager of the Solutions Group at SAP AG. Breya leads solution management and marketing for both industry and line-of-business solutions. Under Breya’s guidance, her team is responsible for understanding market requirements; defining, assembling and packaging solutions; and enabling the field and ecosystem to successfully bring these solutions to market. She reports to Jim Hagemann Snabe, Co-CEO of SAP AG.
Breya brings more than 25 years of technology management experience to SAP. Previously, Breya was at Business Objects SA, where she was general manager for the company's primary product line businesses: enterprise information management (EIM), core business intelligence (BI) and midmarket solutions. She also served as Business Objects’ chief marketing officer (CMO) where she was responsible for developing the company's vision and strategy, establishing its brand value proposition, and running all marketing and communications functions worldwide.
Prior to joining SAP through the Business Objects acquisition, Breya served in a number of executive roles at technology giants such as BEA Systems, where she was senior vice president (SVP), CMO, and chief strategy officer (CSO); and Sun Microsystems, where she served in various executive management roles. A change agent and visionary leader, Breya thrives on turnaround situations that require strong leadership, strategic prowess and flawless execution.
Breya has served on the board of both the BEA and Business Objects Foundations, helping to form the mission for these foundations and overseeing the distribution of funds. In addition, Breya also sat on the public board of Document Sciences Corporation (NASD: DOCX), acquired by EMC in 2008.
Breya holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign) and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Oregon.
Amy Schulman
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Pfizer
Amy W. Schulman is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pfizer. She also is the company’s Corporate Secretary and executive sponsor of its Global Women’s Council, which aims to make Pfizer an employer of choice for women.
Ms. Schulman joined Pfizer in June 2008 and saw the company through its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth. She led a major reorganization of the Legal Division to align with Pfizer’s new business-unit structure and broadened its scope to include lawyers in all markets. In early 2009, she spearheaded the Pfizer Legal Alliance, an innovative approach to engaging outside counsel. She is recognized as a leading voice for transforming the billable-hour model and for redefining the value of legal services.
Before coming to Pfizer, Ms. Schulman was a partner at DLA Piper, where she was a member of the Board and Executive Policy Committees, and built and led the international law firm’s mass tort and class-action practice. Her clients included GE Healthcare, Cisco, Wyeth, Philip Morris, Kraft Foods and Pfizer, for which she served as lead national counsel in multidistrict litigation involving pain medicines Bextra and Celebrex.
Ms. Schulman’s commitment to clients, skill as a legal advocate and efforts to advance women have earned her accolades from many leading publications and organizations. In 2009, The National Law Journal named her to its inaugural list of the 20 Most Influential General Counsel, and Forbes magazine included her on its list of “The World’s Most Powerful Women.” In 2004, The American Lawyer recognized her as one of the 45 legal superstars under age 45.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wesleyan University, Ms. Schulman earned her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989. She serves on the Board of Directors of Wesleyan and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.