Sage ERP X3 Worldwide Conference Speakers

Guy Berruyer
Chief Executive, The Sage Group plc

Guy joined Sage in 1997 to run its French operation. He was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2000 as CEO for its Mainland Europe business and in 2005 also took charge of its Asian operations. Guy succeeded Paul Walker as Group Chief Executive in October 2010.

Prior to joining Sage he was Country Manager and then European Managing Director for Intuit, the US software company. Previously he worked at the French hardware company Groupe Bull where he was a Director of Marketing and Claris as Southern European General Manager.

Christophe Letellier
CEO, Sage ERP X3

Christophe Letellier joined Sage in 2006 and is General Manager for Sage ERP X3 Worldwide. He is in charge of developing Sage presence in the ERP market for mid-sized enterprises, worldwide.

Christophe started his career at IBM where he held a variety of sales positions, before becoming Director of Industrial Sector, then Director of Software Division Western Europe. He was member of the Executive Committee of IBM France from 1997 to 2001. He then joined PeopleSoft as Group Vice President and General Manager Southern Europe. Just Before joining Sage Christophe was General Manager EMEA at OpenWave Systems.

Emmanuel Obadia
Senior Vice President Sage ERP X3 & FRP

Emmanuel Obadia joined Sage Software as Senior VP Sage ERP X3 & FRP in 2007 to create the Enterprise Products Management division covering ERP and Financial solutions for mid-market and large enterprises. He leads strategy, market analysis and technical definition of ERP products worldwide.

Emmanuel joined Sage from Sun Microsystems, where he lead field software marketing as the director of world-wide field software product marketing for three years after running Marketing, Channel and Alliances sales in a combined organization for Sun in France.

Prior to Sun, Emmanuel was director of marketing & alliances sales at PeopleSoft France, member of the management committee. Between 1994 and 2001, Emmanuel held various positions in Lotus Development starting as Communication Business Unit Manager for France mainly focused on Lotus Notes marketing; then moved to the role of Product Sales Manager.

He started his career in 1986 as the founder and CEO of KSI, a software editor in France.