NEW YORK (TIP): Former SAP chief product officer Abdul Razack has been hired by Google Cloud for a senior executive role with its solutions engineering team. He is named vice president of technology solutions, a newly created position.

Razack is a technology leader known for his strategic vision and engineering expertise, with more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology. In his new role, Razack will be responsible for Google Cloud’s solution strategy across its seven solution pillars, from infrastructure, to application modernization, to data analytics and cloud artificial intelligence (AI). He also will drive the application of the solutions among sellers and customer engineers helping customers digitally transform.

“My goal is to help Google Cloud customers unlock significant value from our solutions, bringing resiliency and scale to businesses in these uncertain times, and also helping them build a technology foundation for their future,” Razack said in a statement. “I’m truly excited about the opportunity to leverage Google’s technology to develop open, flexible solutions that serve our customers’ most critical needs.”

A 15-year SAP veteran, Razack served as chief product officer at SAP since March 2019, leading its cloud technology vision and efforts to build enterprise resource planning products.