SAP's Management Faces Questions on Succession Planning and Pay

No clear successor to software maker’s co-founder and chairman
Company facing criticism of CEO pay heading into its AGM

A visitor passes an illuminated SAP logo in Walldorf, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg

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By Aaron Ricadela

May 9, 2017 at 4:00 AM UTC

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German software maker SAP SE is facing questions on two fronts heading into its annual meeting Wednesday: the future of its co-founder and chairman Hasso Plattner, and the pay packet of chief executive officer Bill McDermott.

Plattner, who built the company into a corporate computing power, is 73 -- two years short of SAP’s suggested retirement date for directors -- and an essential figure without a clear replacement.