Marcel started out as a SAP Basis Consultant but gradually moved towards SAP Solution Architecture and User Experience. At the University of Amsterdam he co-architected the SAP HANA infrastructure resulting in a BW on HANA and one of the first European Suite on HANA implementations. He is currently in the role of SAP architect guarding the overall architecture on one hand and driving (HANA) innovations at the other. He is board member for the Dutch SAP user group VNSG.