V.R. Ferose

V.R. Ferose is Senior Vice President and Head of Globalization Service for SAP AG and former Managing Director of SAP Labs India. Deeply sensitive to the unequal world in which we live, Ferose founded the ‘India Inclusion Summit’, a unique platform that focuses on the need for inclusion in our lives. He is a Director on the Board of Specialist People Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation with the goal to create one million jobs globally for people with autism and is on the panel of ‘The Vision Group on Information Technology’, Government of Karnataka. He is also co-founder of the Karnataka chapter of Global Shapers, which works to create leadership among the youth. For his professional accomplishments, commitment to society, and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world, Ferose was honored as a ‘Young Global Leader’ in March 2012 by the World Economic Forum. In a study published by the Economic Times and Spencer Stuart, Ferose was selected as one of the leaders in ‘Indian’s Top 40 under 40’, 2014. This study is considered to be India’s most authentic leadership study and it lists 40 extraordinary business leaders under the age of 40.