Bill McDermott

Business speaker and CEO of ServiceNow, Bill McDermott, holds the key to drastically increasing market value. The gold medal winning businessman has led several prestigious companies, a testament to his incomparable eye for business opportunities. Audiences of his speeches benefit from Bill's insight, as he offers them actionable strategies tailored to their specific industry of service. Bill's memoir, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Market, is widely regarded as the holy grail of business, used by prospective businesspeople to guide their journey. His after dinner speeches expand upon his life, starting with Bill's first business, a corner shop, and taking his audience all the way to a multimillion dollar company, SAP SE.

Bill stepped into the role of CEO at SAP American in 2002, a division of the overarching company. Eight years later, he was promoted to Co-CEO of SAP AG, after becoming part of the SAP Executive Board in 2008. As a testament to Bill's company-defining strategies, he became the first American CEO of the entire company in 2010, a respectable achievement. Bill is credited for SAP's market increase, from $39 billion to a staggering $144.7 billion, over an eight year period. In 2019, he became the CEO of ServiceNow, an American cloud computing organisation. Bill himself described the company as "vibrant", and has worked hard to position ServiceNow as a market leader.

Aged just 16, Bill bought his first company - the Amityville Country Delicatessen in Long Island, for just $7,000. This gave Bill the opportunity to test his hand at business, managing risk, ensuring profits and calculating stock on a smaller basis. His business even paid for his college education, which allowed Bill to earn an undergraduate degree in Business Management. Prior to moving to SAP America, he spent 17 years at Xerox, before becoming the President of Gartner and Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations at Siebel Systems. As an after dinner speaker, few business influencers have the life story that Bill has, making this speaker one in a million. Armed with a wealth of strategies to inspire and enlighten his corporate audience, Bill holds the key to unbeatable business success.