Team

Education & Credentials

The Open University – Master of Business Administration (MBA) (2014)
The Open University – Professional Diploma in Management (Managing Performance and Change) (2010)
The Open University – Professional Certificate in Management (2008)
University of Wales – BA (Hons) Photojournalism (2005)

JNC Role

Katie’s Operational role in summary is overseeing JNCs daily business activities. She is responsible for managing JNCs resources, developing and implementing an operational plan and ensuring that procedures are carried out efficiently and effectively. Katie’s finance role is both operational and strategic in maintaining the growth of JNCs financial health. This consists of account management and financial control as well as establishing a financial strategy for the profitable long-term growth of the business. Katie’s HR role is to develop and implement HR policies with the main goal of ensuring that the workforce runs smoothly, building a healthy work environment and to remain cost-effective. Katie’s professional and determined presence shines throughout the company and this reflects in our daily operations - always striving for success, with the focus of continuing to improve in all aspects of the company.

Relevant Experience

Katie brings 14 years of Operational experience to the company. Working as a Programme Manager for a European Standardisation company in Brussels for 9 years. Her main role and responsibilities consisted of the delivery of the Publication EU standards (EN) throughout Europe and the resource and performance management of the Publications Unit. Katie has also worked closely with the Technical Committees who draft the EU standards as well as the International Standards Organisation partner (ISO). This experience has been expended in JNC with building relationships in partner organisations and with a vast number of clients across the globe.

Career History

Officer (Editor) at CEN-CENELEC Management Centre
Programme Manager at CEN-CENELEC Management Centre
Director JNC BVBA and JNC UK Consulting

Education & Credentials

The Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) - MSc Applied Physics (Computational Science).

JNC Role

Senior SAP Technology and License Management consultant responsible for advising customers on their contractual requirements based SAP roadmaps. Not only is Alex considered a commercial expert for SAP contracts and SAP product entitlements, but due to his vast experience as an SAP license measurementor; he has the technical in-depth knowledge on the SAP license measurement approach and methodologies. Alex has seven years’ experience as a senior License Measurementor at SAP SE, responsible primarily for customers in The Netherlands including some of the world's largest Fortune 500 corporations. Alex advises on all aspects of SAP product selection, benchmarking. In addition, measurement processes and systems, advising the measurement business team on complex licensing scenarios. Alex established himself as a go-to person on complex licensing scenarios, legacy contracts, indirect access, measurement evaluation and practical aspects of standard measurements.

Relevant Experience

Overall delivery responsible for SAP license entitlements and SAP technology roadmaps and architecture, contract review, pricing review and benchmarking, negotiation support and support through SAP license measurements, for large European and global clients in various industries including consumer goods, telecommunications, food and beverage, transportation, energy and public sector resulting in significant cost savings, entitlement optimization, risk mitigation and positive measurement outcomes

Career History

Alex was formerly a Senior Expert License Measurementor and Global Technical Lead for SAP’s Global License Measurement Services, Alex was the worldwide primary contact for SAP measurement HQ.

Education & Credentials

BSc Business Computing Systems (City university, London).

JNC Role

My focus area is with technology and business strategy relating to Compliance and Measurement. Identifying and improving business processes through supporting governance, using detailed analysis and IT measurements to ensure organisations are running optimally. Expert experience and knowledge in contract licensing and license management. My experience extends to performing in-depth analysis work with clients, having strong account intelligence and detailed knowledge of their IT landscape and how it fits within their business process. Drawing up the relevant information and understanding the key requirements of the client and conducting measurement simulations on relevant systems to identify assets and cross check against entitlement.

Relevant Experience

I have extensive experience within IT measurement, Financial Services, Sales and Project Management. This has enabled me to drive and support blue chip clients to ensure the usage of IT is running compliantly and securely whilst still pursuing their business goals. Rhys is consultative, well networked, capable, focused, challenger-seller and leader who can deliver results. With strong experience with working with Clients to identify appropriate restrictions, limitations and how it affects the business’ future functionality and future IT roadmap. Rhys has practised knowledge with indirect access scenarios, contractual negotiation, measurement evaluations and roadmap commercial support directly whilst working with SAP and now supporting Clients on projects.

Career History

Rhys was formerly a License Compliance & Measurement Manager for the UK at SAP. Responsible for implementing a new process for how SAP measurement their customers. Managing all measurements across UKI and supporting from a technical and commercial perspective. Worked on measurements across all industries putting unique methods in place to make sure measurements are carried out as effectively as possible, measurements carried out for numerous solutions including SAP ERP, BusinessObjects and Sybase.

Education & Credentials

(BSC) Business Information
Technology - Middlesex University, London UK

JNC Role

Head of SAP Security service line at JNC and responsible for delivering License management services at a multinational electricity and gas utility company. Ryan is today successfully leading and managing a GRC 10.1 > 12.0 migration project for a public services company in Belgium. On top of Ryan responsibilities, he also heads JNC business tooling developments as well as strategizing, identifying and refining business processes using detailed analysis and project management initiatives to ensure the organisation runs optimally.

Relevant Experience

SAP Security & Authorizations, GRC and License Management Consultant with experience and responsibilities working on SAP Security design and implementation, GRC and SAP License Measurement projects. Experience in Global Systems implementation & migration programmes, Ryan is responsible for using his knowledge and expertise to consult with clients with all aspects of SAP GRC, Security & Authorisation and Licensing Management Services.

Career History

Ryan was former SAP & Financial Systems Analyst and responsible for project leading, business support and SAP implementations. Lead analyst SAP Security & Authorisation, Ryan was also given the responsibility for lead support on implementation/data migration projects; he is also accountable for managing, obtaining and delivering ongoing business changes. One of his major achievements within his career had been managing a SAP license measurement project which had benefited several clients saving and risk mitigating in the regions of circa £100k - £10M per year on SAP licenses.

Education & Credentials

• University of Birmingham – BA(Hons) Ancient History and Archaeology
• Certified ServiceNow System Administrator

JNC Role

Becki is a Consultant at JNC and has a mixture of account management and technical analysis skills, which ensures a rounded consultative approach to engagements and recommendations. She has expert experience in contract licensing, license management, and unique SAP licensing scenarios. Becki can translate complicated licensing analysis into a format that is easy to understand, for those with different levels of technical understanding within an organisation.

Relevant Experience

Becki is an SAP licensing Consultant with a deep understanding of SAM process. She is able to recognise how this process can impact your ultimate compliance position. She has experience working with numerous customers in varying sizes, from global corporations to governmental bodies. Becki has experience with Classic ECC, S/4HANA, Indirect Access, Sybase and BusinessObjects licensing scenarios, and has advised in collaboration with third party consultancy firms to ensure an optimal outcome for the customer. Managing audits and the steps required to be prepared and how to communicate with SAP is a key area of expertise.

Career History

Becki was a Licensing Specialist at a leading SAM Managed Service Provider, primarily working as an SAP Specialist. Her responsibilities included managing audits and regular licensing reviews for customers and advising on SAP related licensing queries.

Education & Credentials

MSc. Poliiticalscience, Aalborg University, Denmark
MSc. international Relations, Comenius University, Slovakia.
Certified  Project Management
Prince 2 Practitioner

JNC Role

Martin is JNC’s data analyst that focuses on creation of analytics tools for consultants. His focus is on tools that can be used universally by processing data from any SAP system and provide secure way to analyse client’s data without exposing it to external vulnerabilities and data privacy breach. Martin’s focus is primarily SAP user licence and usage analysis . Preferred coding languages are VBA and Python used alongside SQL.

Relevant Experience

Martin worked for Deutsche Telekom’s Business Services Europe as SAP HR specialist and trainer where he trained employees in using SAP HCM module and related technical skills. Later he worked for Dyson as SAP Master Data Development Analyst, where he programmed various tools for automation of operational and reporting tasks. Martin has experience working with relational databases and performing qualitative and quantitative research for academic and commercial purposes. Martin is interested in data prep, data analysis, automation and due to his fondness of statistics, he would like to implement machine learning.

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JNC Role

David is the Engagement Manager at JNC and has over 30 years of experience in business development in various large industries. His role is to oversee the business development operations within the business, dealing with customers directly and often as their first point of contact. Helping clients to implement our services and plan projects more effectively.

Education & Credentials

Worcester Sixth Form College - Business and law BTEC.

JNC Role

Maia performs the role of Associate Consultant, at JNC. This entails helping the consultants to assist clients in User analysis, bills of materials and benchmarking analysis. These are all essential roles in completing an SAP measurement for a client, Maia is still currently in training to become a Consultant at JNC, with help and training from the other consultants.

Relevant Experience

Maia has spent her time at JNC working directly with the senior consultants to enhance her knowledge and understanding of the subject of SAP. Maia has also worked with clients directly to create Bills of Materials, this helps the consultants and the clients themselves to understand what products they are entitled to, this is used to check if what they are entitled to matches what licenses they are currently using.

Career History

Maia has spent the last three years studying both law and business at college. Studying law she learnt both family and commercial business law, then going on to study business, understanding the knowledge of the business sector, with emphasis on developing relevant roles to the workplace, also developing marketing skills.

Education & Credentials

The University of Wales - BEng (Hons) Internet and Networking Technologies. IS27001 Certified Lead Measurementor.

JNC Role

SAP Licensing Project manager and principal consultant – delivering SAP license management projects globally to some of the largest SAP clients in the world. Responsibilities include contract review, SAP Bill-of-materials, measurement simulation planning, measurement simulation execution, measurement and technical team management, project coordination, managing budgets and presenting deliverables to stakeholders. SAP Licensing expert; contract management, total cost of ownership analysis, license asset analysis and license optimization. SAP License measurement defence, measurement preparation, compliance health checks, roadmap to compliance planning, and enterprise licensing strategy. SAP access controls expert delivering SAP security blueprints and concepts, risk mapping and managing SAP compliance for organisations in both the public and private global sectors. Expert in SAP security and authorizations design and GRC implementation both business and technical implementation. SAP Indirect Access licensing consultant providing future licensing impact assessments, as-is indirect access risk assessments, enterprise-wide functional and technical interface reviews.

Relevant Experience

Overall delivery responsible for process architecture, security blueprinting, contract review, pricing review and benchmarking, negotiation support and support through SAP license measurements, for large European and global clients in various industries including consumer goods, telecommunications, food and beverage, transportation, energy and public sector resulting in significant cost savings, entitlement optimization, risk mitigation and positive measurement outcomes.

Career History

James brings significant experience in SAP sales, implementation and measurementing. Previously he led Deloitte’s SAP Security & License Measurement practice based out of Belgium. James also served as a security consultant for CSI focusing on SAP, and Deloitte Belgium (Brussels) and worked with Harte-Hanks on behalf of SAP UK to identify and advise small to midsized organisations on purchasing and implementing SAP business applications

Education & Credentials

BA (Hons) in Criminology and Policing

Access to Higher Education Diploma in Teaching & Education

JNC Role

Will performs the role of Associate Consultant for JNC and his main focus is to ensure smooth delivery across all marketing projects. These projects vary in a number of social media platforms and it is crucial for the consultant to hold in-depth knowledge, identify the target audience and to execute the delivery to the highest standard. He plays a vital role in reaching out to new clients across the globe, providing them with the professional support that JNC has to offer.

Career History

Will started his career as a reconnaissance soldier in the HM Forces (2011 to 2016), managing small teams to complete their objectives in difficult environments. After the military, Will trained to be a teacher at the University of Worcester and he later studied Criminology where he identified an interest in law and cybercrime. Has been a member of JNC since 2018.