Rodolpho Cardenuto — A heavyweight addition to the MIGNOW team

Rodolpho Cardenuto joins the MIGNOW advisory board

Mignow, which owns technology that accelerates migrations to S/4 Hana, the latest version of SAP's management system, has just brought in a heavyweight reinforcement: Rodolpho Cardenuto, a Brazilian executive who built his career at the German multinational, rising to the top of its hierarchy.

Cardenuto is the first member of an advisory board created by Mignow, a company born from Essence's S/4 migration experience — a SAP partner headquartered in São Paulo.

Mignow has the technology to automatically convert additional developments in SAP ECC (the famous "Zs" in industry jargon) to S/4 Hana, promising an automation level of 95%.

The company has delivered projects at several large companies, such as the Port of Santos, the Cornélio Brennand group, the Pague Menos drugstore chain, and even abroad, such as the Belgian chocolate company Chocolatier.

The idea is that Mignow can work on projects, including with SAP partners that compete with Essence for implementation contracts — something that will certainly require a great deal of tact and many contacts in the SAP universe, both of which Cardenuto has in abundance.

The executive spent more than a decade at SAP, between 2008 and 2019, having served as President for SAP Americas and President of the Global Partner Organization, probably the farthest a Brazilian has ever risen at SAP.

Cardenuto is currently President of one of Vonage's business units, an American multinational in unified communications, and also sits on the board of Semtech, a semiconductor manufacturer listed on the US stock exchange, and of Magic Leap, which operates in the augmented reality space.

“Cardenuto will provide world-class leadership and guidance for our global strategy,” says Paulo Secco, CEO of Mignow. “With broad global experience, he will enable us to better understand cross-border issues, positioning in different markets, and how we can change systems at speed and scale through effective actions,” adds Secco.