Hervé Couturier

Hervé is a private investor and product strategy consultant. He currently serves as President of Kerney Partners, a consulting firm. From 2012 to 2016, he was Executive Vice President, R&D, at Amadeus, an airline reservation systems provider. From 2007 to 2012, he was Executive Vice President of SAP AG’s Technology Group and Head of Research. He also serves as a board member for various public and private software companies, including Sabre Inc. and Kyriba Corp. He has held management positions at a number of IT companies including Business Objects, the worldwide leader of business intelligence solutions, now part of SAP, and S1 Corporation, a provider of payment software for financial institutions, now part of ACI Worldwide. He began his career at IBM in 1982, where he held various engineering and business positions until 1997.