Harish Luthra is the chief executive officer of SAP National Security Services, Inc. (SAP NS2®). SAP NS2, a U.S.-based, independent subsidiary of SAP®, delivers SAP innovation to public sector and critical infrastructure industries. As CEO, Harish oversees SAP NS2’s engagement with customers to provide secure and compliant solutions, including intelligent cloud enterprise, customer success services, product support to align with market trends and ensure regulated customers can adopt the benefits of SAP technology.

Harish joined SAP in August of 1997. He began his career as a consultant and immediately made an impact within the organization as he founded the SAP Federal Professional Services practice in 1999.

In 2008, Harish became national vice president of the SAP Public Services Consulting business, and he was responsible for sales and delivery to the federal government (U.S. DoD and Civilian Departments/Agencies), state and local governments, aerospace and defense corporations, and higher education institutions. This began Harish’s experience with regulated industries, and it allowed him to gain a deep understanding of the special security requirements of government entities.

In 2011, Harish joined SAP NS2 and began focusing his efforts on the needs of public sector and regulated industries. Given his role with Public Services Consulting, he was well-equipped to support SAP NS2’s mission of executing secure cloud strategies that protect the nation’s most critical data.

Harish’s past roles have allowed him to gain a wholistic business experience – encompassing client engagement, program management, project implementation, program oversight, staff and business development, and more. As a leader within the Public Services, he gained direct experience with regulated customers such as IRS , CBP, USPS, U.S. Army, US Navy, DLA, City of Portland, Commonwealth of Kentucky, City of San Diego, Lockheed Martin, among others.

Today, Harish has helped SAP NS2 establish themselves as the secure cloud services provider for regulated industries across The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Alongside his leadership, SAP NS2 and SAP work to securely transform customer operations and ensure mission critical data is handled in alignment with government compliance standards.

Harish holds an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park and is a member of World 50, Executive Mossiac, and WashingtonExec professional organizations.

Emily Gyory is the Chief Financial Officer for SAP NS2. Emily is responsible for all financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting, business planning and analysis, driving finance efficiency and profitable revenue growth for SAP NS2. Emily has been with SAP since 2008, joining SAP NS2 in 2019. Emily started her career in public accounting. Emily graduated from Villanova University and received her master’s degree from the University of Virginia. She now resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.

David serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at SAP NS2 since 2022, where he and his team are responsible for establishing and the execution of SAP NS2’s strategic objectives, KPI’s and OKR’s and the day-to day operations across the organization. In addition, David and his team manage the day-to-day operations for IT, Internal Business Systems, Risk Management, Sales and Maintenance Operations, Procurement, Facilities and Third-party vendor management.

David reports to Harish Luthra, the CEO of SAP NS2 and prior to his role as the COO, David was the CFO of SAP NS2 and assisted in originating the SAP NS2 Sovereign Cloud.

David has been at SAP since 1998 and has held various finance and operational leadership roles, to include the CFO of SAP Canada and Head of Finance for Services for SAP North America.

Pete Mattimore is the Senior Vice President of sales for the SAP NS2 Secure Cloud business. He joined SAP in 2016 to lead the Regulated Industries line of business for the company’s Human Capital Management (HCM) business. Pete then joined SAP NS2 in January of 2019. Prior to this, Pete held numerous senior management positions at PTC, including running all Public Sectors. Most recently Pete served as Vice President of North America Sales at Stratasys, the world’s largest 3D printing company.

Pete completed his bachelor of science degree from Bowling Green State University. He resides with his wife and three children in Cleveland, OH.

Laura Carmack is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at SAP NS2, where she is responsible for developing and executing the overall people strategy, including staffing, talent management and retention, compensation and employee relations.

Laura brings over 30 years of experience as a human resources leader in the federal technology space.  She began her career in HR at Societe Generale in New York, running  the stagiaire program, utilizing her French fluency in recruiting interns from abroad.  Following this position, Laura joined Sybase, Inc. where she began her human resources career, supporting North America sales and services divisions, across commercial and federal space.  Following SAP’s acquisition of Sybase, Inc. in 2010, she joined SAP NS2, where she has since led HR since 2010. In 2015, Laura was instrumental in the creation of NS2 Serves, a program that provides free IT training and career placement to post- 9/11 veterans. Since its inception, 330 veterans have graduated from the program, all of which were placed in a career by Laura’s tireless efforts. Prior to her HR career, Laura  she was a French high school teacher and basketball coach at Blair Academy.  

Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in French and education from Gettysburg College, and attended a master’s program in Angers, France.  She  resides with her husband and three children in Ocean City, NJ.

Arvind Gidwani has over 25 years of experience in the technology sector and over 14+ years in Cloud-based platforms. He currently leads the Cloud Technology, Engineering & Operations for Single Tenant Cloud.

Arvind joins SAPNS2 from MapR, where he was the CIO and general manager responsible for driving a pure cloud strategy across the company’s business and engineering operations. He established Managed Services line of business from ground-up supporting all hyperscalers, including closing the first few major customers. He led the development of the automation required to support the service. Before MapR, Arvind was responsible for managing the global infrastructure operations for the Oracle Managed Cloud (Private/Hybrid) as well as the delivery of the cloud infrastructure for Oracle’s public PaaS and IAAS platforms. Before Oracle, Arvind was the Head of Cloud Operations at SAPNS2, supporting SAP on HANA and HCM cloud. Before his position at SAPNS2, Arvind was responsible for managing global infrastructure operations at SuccessFactors/SAP where he re-architected the largest commercial subscription-based Software as a Service (SaaS) during a massive period of growth (from 13 million to 28 million subscribers). While at SAP, Arvind was responsible for the initial launch of HANA as a service. Arvind has held senior positions in the past at Qualcomm, Lytx, Nirvanix, Cisco, and Applied Materials. He serves on the advisory board of several startup companies and has multiple patents, personally, in the technology space.

Joe Kernan is a retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral and former Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence and Security. He served in both the Surface and Naval Special Warfare communities for 36 years. He is currently the Chief Security Officer and a Board Member for SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) and has served as a senior advisor for WestExec Advisors, Boston Consulting Group and BlackSky. In these roles he facilitated corporate strategies and the adoption of commercial technology in the government and public sectors. He was a founding Board member and first Chairman of NS2 Serves, a veteran training and employment program that continues to be conducted by SAP NS2.

Joe has experience and expertise in establishing Defense and Intelligence enterprise strategies, policies, and priorities, and developing related investments programs. In his most recent government role, he was the principal intelligence, counterintelligence and security advisor to the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Defense Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. On behalf of the Secretary of Defense, he exercised authority, direction and control over the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial Agency and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency.

His military assignments included:

• Commanding Officer, SEAL Team TWO
• Commander, Naval Special Warfare Development Group
• Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command
• Commander, US Fourth Fleet
• Senior Military Assistant to former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
• Deputy Commander, US Southern Command

 
Joe graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1977 (BS) and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1997 (MS).

Kim Kasprow serves as President of NS2 Mission for SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) where she leads the national security mission-focused software and services lines of business comprised of three acquisitions—Volume Integration, Technology Management Associates, and Apex Expert Solutions. She is a founding leader of the NS2 Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) Employee Resource Group.

Kim joined SAP NS2 in 2016 through the acquisition of Volume Integration, LLC. Under Kim, Volume Integration increased Volume Analytics software sales by triple digits and won a $235M competitive contract within the IC. Kim has over 20 years of Business, Program Management, Operations and Finance experience, with extensive experience in the Federal Government, IC sector.

Prior to joining Volume Integration, Kim spent over 11 years with The Boeing Company where she advanced through a number of leadership roles and to include running large IC software development program.

Kim holds a Master’s in Management: Information Systems and Services from University of Maryland, a B.A. in Business Administration from Saint Leo University and a Master Certificate in IS/IT Project Management from Villanova University.

Winson Cumberland is the National Vice President of Multi-Tenant Cloud Operations for SAP National Security Services (NS2). The Multi-Tenant environments include Human Capital Management and Business Technology Platform solutions. In this role, he led the creation of the cloud organization and the build of the SuccessFactors application, one of the first Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions of its size to be FedRAMP authorized. A champion of leading edge technology, Winson was the first to run multiple SuccessFactors environments in AWS GovCloud as well as being the first production SAP SaaS product to run on containers. Winson continues to embrace new technology, successfully and securely implementing new SAP products within the NS2 environments.

Prior to his role at SAP NS2, Winson spent three years at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), operators of the world’s largest trade event, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At CTA, he led the Information Technology and Application Development organization and oversaw the technical requirements of CES. Over his 25-year career in technology, he has worked for such companies as 3Com, Plateau Systems, and SuccessFactors. He has also served on the customer advisory board of AWS GovCloud.

A graduate of George Mason University, Winson is an avid marathoner who also enjoys baseball and being outdoors with his family.

Jeremy Perkins is the Senior Vice President of the National Security Group (NSG) at SAP NS2. NSG is the dedicated line of business for U.S. customers that require personnel and SAP solutions within classified environments. Jeremy also serves as the Senior Management Official (SMO) for SAP NS2, having authority over facility operations and directing necessary actions to safeguard classified information.

Jeremy joined SAP NS2 in 2016. He had previously spent over 18 years at SAP, supporting projects in the Federal Government and Department of Defense. Jeremy graduated from Texas A&M University and received his master’s degree from the University of Virginia. He now resides in Virginia with his wife and two children.

Kristen Hennebry serves as Chief of Staff at SAP NS2. She was previously responsible for marketing & communications for the organization. Hennebry holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University in integrated marketing and a bachelor’s in communications from Radford University.

Joseph Moreno is the General Counsel of SAP National Security Services, Inc. (SAP NS2). Prior to joining NS2, he was a Global Litigation partner with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in the firm’s New York and Washington DC offices. With over twenty years of experience advising clients in the defense, technology, cybersecurity and financial services sectors on complex litigation, regulatory and compliance matters, Joseph is an internationally recognized practitioner and has frequently appeared on BBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other networks to comment on national security and law enforcement topics.

Before private practice, Joseph served as a federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice in the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section, where he investigated and prosecuted international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. He was also appointed a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia where he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases and successfully argued before the Fourth Circuit. In 2014, Joseph was appointed as a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where he served on the staff of the FBI’s 9/11 Review Commission. He has also testified before Congress on matters involving lone wolf terrorist financing.

A decorated combat veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Joseph is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve and has served on active duty in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2004 he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq. Joseph is a recognized expert in the area of international and operational law, and currently serves at Headquarters, Department of the Army, at the Pentagon.

Joseph earned his undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University, his law degree from St. John’s University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from St. John’s University Peter J. Tobin College of Business. He is a member of the bars of New York, Virginia, and Washington DC, and is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Joseph is also a certified public accountant (CPA).

As Senior Vice President of Product Strategy for SAP NS2, Lillian Chang is responsible for the company’s solution portfolio, architecture, product launch, marketing, and strategic partnerships. She leads a team of experts focused on building secure cloud solutions for customers with government regulatory requirements (i.e. ITAR, FedRAMP, DISA IL4/5, StateRAMP, etc.) to our Regulated Industry customers. She oversees SAP NS2’s portfolio, including solution management, project management office, architecture and integrations, commercialization, and partnership management.

Since joining SAP in 1998, Lillian has held roles in Presales, Solution Management and Go To Market. She served as a Presales Senior Director at SAP Regulated Industry, focusing on the Federal, Defense and State & Local sectors. Before joining SAP Lillian spent five years as a consultant, working with SAP and other software solutions.

Lillian is a graduate of University of Michigan, where she majored in Industrial & Operations Engineering. She is an executive sponsor of SAP NS2’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives and programs to support our community and employees. She is an advisor board member for Summer Reach, which empowers young adult through mentorship and summer experiential learning.

Tanvi Vora is the National Vice President and head of Single Tenant Cloud Delivery & Operations for the SAP NS2 Secure Cloud business. Tanvi is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery, management, and optimization of dedicated cloud environments tailored to the unique needs of enterprise clients. With a focus on ensuring seamless deployment, high availability, and robust performance, Tanvi is committed to delivering secure and scalable single-tenant cloud solutions.

Tanvi joined SAP NS2 in 2017 to setup the secure cloud managed services business. Prior to joining SAP NS2, Tanvi spent over 18 years with CGI Inc. where she advanced through a number of leadership roles to include running large software development and managed services programs.

Tanvi holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bombay University. She currently resides in Northern Virginia with her family.

Wayne is the Vice President of Multi-Tenant Cloud Delivery & Operations at SAP NS2. He is responsible for maintaining customer consumed multi-tenant solutions including SuccessFactors, SAP Analytics Cloud and the SAP Business Technology Platform and Extension Services including the day-to-day management of cloud infrastructure and application services. Wayne joined SAP NS2 2023, coming from one of the leading Identity Governance & Administration SaaS provider where he served as Vice President of Cloud Operations. Prior to this, Wayne has served in senior leadership roles with several startups focused on building teams to deliver and maintain reliable cloud and on-premise platforms.

Wayne completed his Bachelors of Science at Cal Poly Pomona University and currently resides with his wife and three children in Temecula, CA.