Name: Lusine Mirzakhanyan || Chief Revenue Expert, R2R (Record to Report) Center of Excellence Cloud Operations, SAP

Lusine is a technology leader at SAP and currently holds the position of Chief Revenue Expert at SAP. Her main focus is on SAP strategic projects that drive key transformations in Cloud Operations. Lusine had held several leadership roles in the areas of software revenue recognition and FP&A, and worked for top rated publicly traded SaaS companies. Her 20+ years career in Finance started right after getting the B.S. in Economics degree from Yerevan State University – as an entry-level Finance specialist position at the Ministry of Industry & Health of Armenia during turbulent post-Soviet transition period of mid 1990s. It then evolved into a lead consultant role at the Armenian Development Agency followed by a consultant role with UNDP sponsored budget & tax reform for the same government. Two years later, after getting an MBA degree from Scranton University, Pennsylvania, Kania School of Management, and having minored in Finance & IT Lusine found herself in Silicon Valley ready to explore the exciting world of IT start-ups. Hi-tech industry has been full of challenges and learning, shaping up the mindset and skill set of a professional that Lusine has become over the past 20 years. The most important life lessons though were taught by the “Yerevan’s dark years” – studying for college tests by the candle light and carrying buckets of water up 14 flights of stairs on daily basis. Surviving and most importantly succeeding under these circumstances – both academically and personally – put life into a different unique perspective that she carried on with her into the years to come.