Dietmar Hopp & family
#999Dietmar Hopp is a German software engineer and billionaire businessman. He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972 with other former IBM employees Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner. Hopp is the owner of German Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim and Portuguese Primeira Liga club Académico de Viseu.
Biography & Background
xAI Grokipedia EnrichedDietmar Hopp is a German software engineer and billionaire businessman. He was one of the founders of SAP SE in 1972 with other former IBM employees Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner. Hopp is the owner of German Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim and Portuguese Primeira Liga club Académico de Viseu.
- Dietmar Hopp left IBM with four colleagues in 1972 to launch German enterprise software company SAP (Systems, Applications, Products).
- He served as co-CEO from 1988, the year SAP went public, to 1998 and then as chairman of the supervisory board until 2003.
- In 1996, he transferred most of his SAP shares to a charitable foundation.
- That entity, Dietmar Hopp Stiftung, supports sports, medicine, education and social programs, and has distributed around $1 billion since its start.
- Hopp and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are investors in CureVac, a German developer of vaccines for a range of diseases including Covid-19.
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Dietmar Hopp Dietmar Hopp (born 26 April 1940) is a German software engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of SAP SE, the world's leading provider of enterprise resource planning software.