The personal story that led Rob Enslin to Cloud, Automation and Beyond
“The power of diversity is to bring different thinking together.
More you can experience the different cultures at depth, it gives you the ability to run global organizations at scale.”
Today’s guest —Robert Enslin
Co-CEO at UiPath
ex - President at Google Cloud
ex- President and Executive Board Member at SAP
The Future of Work Area — Cloud, ERP, Automation
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About the Episode
Rob Enslin joins UiPath most recently from Google Cloud, where he served as President of Global Customer Operations. In that role, he led global field operations, tripling the size of the sales organization and driving Google Cloud’s growth at scale. Enslin also spent 27 years at SAP in various leadership roles across sales and operations. In his final role with SAP, Enslin served as President, Cloud Business Group, and Executive Board Member, where he led the development and delivery of SAP’s entire portfolio of cloud applications and services, including SAP Concur, SAP Ariba, SAP Customer Experience, SAPSuccessFactors, and the Qualtrics business. He developed and managed SAP’s entire cloud product portfolio, led the field revenue and enablement efforts across multiple geographies, and oversaw core functions, including professional services, ecosystem, channel, and solutions.
Rob has great international experience, having worked in South Africa, Europe, Asia, and the United States. Also an avid supporter of youth advancement and development, Enslin has also served as the honorary global Chairman of the Els for Autism Golf Challenge.
Some questions we discussed:
How did the journey start that led you to the technology space, and then SAP and Google?
You worked at two of the world's largest Tech giants and led their revenue teams to very successful outcomes. My audience would love to learn more about some of your learnings in handling complex challenges and helping the tech giants grow and scale. Can you share your experiences at Google Cloud and SAP, such as building high-performance teams, challenges you faced, and how people adapted and reacted to the change? (Overcoming challenges)
What led you to the RPA World, and what attracted you to it the most?
Here are two questions that sound like a single one :) Having worked with international teams across the world, like Asia and Europe, what were some observable behaviors that stood out to you about how work is done? And As the future of work is constantly changing with automation and digitalization, now looking back, how would the different cultural backgrounds impact the adoption of digital technologies? Our community's many entrepreneurs, technologists, and builders create robots, solutions, and products. What would be your one piece of advice for them to keep them motivated and keep going on what they do to be relentless?
As we are inventing the future of work, we are introducing new concepts like telehealth where patients can speak to doctors over virtual spaces, building remote offices that leverage the global workforce, real-time orchestration that allows delivering vaccines across the US on time, call center agents are faster and deliver better customer experiences, and removing mundane work like reading an invoice. Automation is all around us and expanding into many spaces. In your perspective, where still is untapped?
