SAP has replaced its UK Managing Director. Fred Hessabi will act as the interim MD after predecessor Steve Winter occupied the position for just six months.

Hessabi, based in Paris, also serves as General Manager of Continental Europe and is responsible for all SAP operations in the continent. Winter is still with SAP and will now be in charge of a new business HR operations team.

“We will continue to structure our business around the five market categories that are critical to our combined success: mobile, database and technology, analytics, cloud and applications,” said an SAP spokesperson.

“As part of this structure and market focus, we have recognised the incredible opportunity available to us regarding SAP’s line of business HR solutions and as a result, Steve Winter has been appointed to lead the newly created line of business human resources sales team.”