About

Starting in 1998 with SAP as a legal counsel, Jochen Scholten headed the company’s commercial legal team as associate general counsel for several years after a number of expert roles. He was appointed general counsel for the SAP global legal function in 2017. Speaking on his experiences with the company, Scholten lists a number of his accomplishments: ‘I was able to handle a large variety of topics in different legal subject areas which provided me with a solid foundation for managing a global team with different responsibilities. In addition I had the opportunity to handle trans-jurisdictional topics and to get to take an end-to-end view on business matters’. Over time, Scholten sees in-house counsel as having to master an ever-increasing variety of subject areas. ‘The regulatory framework gets more complex, and business models, too’, he explains. ‘This leads to a situation where in-house counsel more and more have to orchestrate a large variety of topics and need to consider things that evolve on a fast track’.