Joe Gentile is Senior Director for the ERP Center of Excellence (COE) at L3Harris Technologies. As a member of the global CIO leadership team, Joe provides the overall ERP leadership to develop and align vision, strategy and plans for the deployment of ERP systems, projects and services across L3Harris. Preceding his current role, Joe was the Sr. Director at L3 Technologies where he created and led the SAP Center of Excellence (COE) group. Supporting over 17,000 users, he was responsible for building out an enterprise wide SAP support organization that optimized processes, drove standardization, reduced costs and ensured delivery excellence of SAP projects across the company.

Chad Braley is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Edge Consulting, Inc. Since its inception, Capital Edge has grown into the country’s leading consulting firm, focused solely on serving both domestic and foreign contractors who contract with the US Government. Chad serves government contractors ranging in size from small businesses to Fortune 100 companies with full contract lifecycle support in the areas of accounting, contracts, compliance and training. His clients work in a wide range of industries, including aerospace, biotech and life sciences, defense and homeland security, education, energy, health care, information technology, intelligence and manufacturing.

Torsten Welte is responsible for the A&D Solution Portfolio at SAP. His Team’s mission is to deliver industry cloud solutions that help SAP customers sustainably innovate and grow their businesses, operate safely and develop their people. Areas of focus and responsibility include management of industry specific development, solution and brand management, sales enablement, marketing, value engineering, partner management, services and support, maintaining a clear focus on the development of new innovations based on business objectives for A&D Industry and key customers.

Richard Minney is renowned through the world in SAP’s Aerospace & Defense industry as the “father of GPD” as well as the architect behind HCL’s iMRO maintenance solution and of Twenty5’s Integration project-based pricing and estimating solution (iPE). As an SAP S/4HANA architect who has worked at a significant portion of A&D companies running SAP, Richard brings unique experience of the industry best practices and related SAP and non-SAP technologies to the panel.