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Workday is the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and finance on one intelligent platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by more than 11,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 65% of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com. read more
Gerrit Kazmaier — President, Product and Technology at Workday
Executive Bio
Gerrit Kazmaier is President, Product and Technology at Workday. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy, delivery, infrastructure, and security of the company’s platform as well as its entire suite of solutions and AI agents.
Prior to joining Workday, Gerrit served as Vice President and General Manager of Data & Analytics at Google Cloud from April 2021 to March 2025. At Google Cloud, he led Google’s Data Analytics and BI Business, overseeing services such as Google BigQuery, Looker, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Dataplex. During his tenure, he focused on the AI transformation of Google Cloud’s Analytics portfolio, delivering Generative AI services such as Conversational Analytics, high accuracy NL2SQL, Multi-Modal Analytics, and Automated insights. He also led the transformation of Google’s Database and Data Analytics services to a Unified Data Cloud.
Gerrit’s career also includes over 11 years at SAP, where he rose to President, leading the company’s database (SAP HANA and Sybase), analytics, BI (Business Objects), and Enterprise Performance Management business. During his tenure he led the cloud transformation of these products and created others such as SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud.
He began his career at SAP in 2009 as a Developer.
Gerrit holds a diploma in Business Informatics from the University of Applied Science Constance in Germany.
Prior to joining Workday, Gerrit served as Vice President and General Manager of Data & Analytics at Google Cloud from April 2021 to March 2025. At Google Cloud, he led Google’s Data Analytics and BI Business, overseeing services such as Google BigQuery, Looker, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and Dataplex. During his tenure, he focused on the AI transformation of Google Cloud’s Analytics portfolio, delivering Generative AI services such as Conversational Analytics, high accuracy NL2SQL, Multi-Modal Analytics, and Automated insights. He also led the transformation of Google’s Database and Data Analytics services to a Unified Data Cloud.
Gerrit’s career also includes over 11 years at SAP, where he rose to President, leading the company’s database (SAP HANA and Sybase), analytics, BI (Business Objects), and Enterprise Performance Management business. During his tenure he led the cloud transformation of these products and created others such as SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP HANA Cloud.
He began his career at SAP in 2009 as a Developer.
Gerrit holds a diploma in Business Informatics from the University of Applied Science Constance in Germany.
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Workday's Executive Team at a Glance
Based on 1895 ratings, Workday's employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an “A+” or 88/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men. Also, the Executive department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Communications department.
Workday's Executive Team ranks in the Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 5% of other companies on Comparably that also have 10,000+ Employees.
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