SAP finds a defender of discipline
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin
Published: June 15 2008 19:17 Last updated: June 15 2008 19:17
Léo Apotheker, the new co-chief executive of German software giant SAP, exudes such a love of discipline and precision that it is tempting to suggest he conforms to national stereotype. But his cosmopolitan family history, which touches on Europe’s bleakest moments, gives the lie to any such claim.
Mr Apotheker’s Jewish parents fled their home on the Polish-Ukrainian border to escape the Nazis in 1942, spending the rest of the second world war in the Soviet Union before settling in Aachen, West Germany. Léo was born there in 1953, and was seven when the family moved to Antwerp. He studied in Jerusalem, moving to Brussels in 1980, before settling in Paris, where he still lives.
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