Deepa Gautam-Nigge
VP, Corporate Development & Investments at SAP
Speaker

Profile

Deepa Gautam-Nigge – who started her career 25 years ago in a StartUp that was a University SpinOff – is now Vice President Corporate Development & Investments at SAP and an experienced Advisory/Supervisory Board Professional for listed or family owned companies and StartUps as well serving as chairperson of the board of RWTH Aachen University Foundation. Since October 2025 she is a Member of the Expert Commission for “Competion and Artificial Intelligence” at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Within SAP she founded and is heading SAP Venture Partnering Program to instantly engage StartUps and ScaleUps as a joint innovation platform.-- (ab hier kann man weglassen, wenn zu lang 😉)

She was recognized by FOCUS Magazine as one of the 100 Women of the Year in 2022. The economics section of the business magazine Business Insider named her one of the Top 25 Future Makers who are changing and shaping the German economy.

Deepa holds an MBA, focusing on Technology and Innovation Management from RWTH Aachen and started her career 25 years ago in a VC-backed startup – which was a university spinoff that established one of the very first B2B platform business models in the German market.

The Nepalese Rhinelander lives with her family in Munich.