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Owner: Hasso Plattner Design: Botin Builder: Persico Contact: [email protected]

Hasso Plattner entered the TP52 arena by buying the 2014 Phoenix originally owned by Eduardo de Souza Ramos and kept the boat in its original livery. After racing her a bit he set his sights higher and joined the 52 Super Series, a 2018 Botin design was ordered and built at Persico with the livery of the 2014 boat. Now the team is a regular on the 52 Super Series podium. Helming is primarily divided between Hasso and his daughter Christina and in their absence Tony Norris. The team is very international but has strong ties with South Africa where the team is very popular. Phoenix got a new keel fin in 2022.

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Plattner’s Visione takes pride of place in Superyacht fleet

Visione , owned by Bermuda resident Hasso Plattner, is among an extensive fleet of yachts that will compete for the coveted Boat International America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta Trophy when racing begins today.

Plattner’s Reichel/Pugh design Baltic 147 underwent a refit in 2007 and since then has produced a string of impressive showings, including claiming class honours at the 2015 Superyacht Challenge Antigua.

Visione is among the fastest superyachts in the fleet and among her crew is Glenn Astwood, the former Bermuda Olympic sailor.

A new champion will be crowned this year as the 180ft twin-masted schooner Adela is not back to defend her title.

Among the other contenders for Adela’s vacated title are the classic 43-metre yacht Rebecca, 88-metre Maltese Falcon and the 47-metre Hyperion .

The America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta is an invitational event, open to yachts measuring a minimum of 24 metres in length. The fleet will be divided into classes based on the size and specifications of the entrants.

The regatta will also feature the most complete fleet of J Class ever assembled.

These majestic titans of sail competed for the America’s Cup during the 1930s and are perhaps still some of the most famous yachts afloat. Only ten J Class yachts were ever built.

“The Boat International Media Superyacht Regatta is a unique event at the heart of the 35th America’s Cup,” said Darrell McLennan Fordyce, chief marketing and events officer at Boat International Media.

“We are excited to see these extraordinary yachts showcased as they compete in Bermuda and we look forward to congratulating the winning owners and crews at the end of the regatta.”

The one-design J Class will start and race as a single fleet. The Superyacht fleet will start and race in a staggered start format, with individual starting times. The Superyacht fleet may be divided into as many as three classes. The race committee reserves the right to change from the staggered start to pursuit format.

The J Class yachts will be scored based on the JCA handicap, while the Superyacht fleet rating rule is the ORC Superyacht Rule.

The offshore regatta will also feature some of the world’s most experienced sailors, including Brad Butterworth, a four-times America’s Cup winner, as well as Olympic medal-winners Peter Holmberg, Ross MacDonald, Ian Walker and Shirley Robertson.

Racing will take place north, east and south off St George’s.

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is hosting the regatta, which runs from today to Thursday, in conjunction with Boat International Media and the America’s Cup Event Authority.

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Hasso Plattner’s Morning Glory, sliding smoothly through a moonlit sea, finished the centennial Transpacific Yacht Race in moderate winds just after 2 a.m. local time Sunday to smash the record held by his nearest rival, Roy Disney.

Although it wasn’t a particularly windy Transpac, the maxZ86s proved their slippery power. The German boat’s time for the 2,225 nautical miles was 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds, lopping almost a day off the record of 7:11:41:27 set by Disney’s previous Pyewacket in 1999.

The new Pyewacket crossed the Diamond Head finish line almost exactly 2 1/2 hours later in what was Disney’s 15th and final Transpac.

Two boats finished ahead of the two maxZ86s -- Ross Pearlman’s Jeanneau 52, Between the Sheets, at 10:22 p.m. Saturday, and the 68-year-old yawl Odyssey, with Cecil Rossi as skipper, 54 minutes ahead of Morning Glory -- but they were Aloha A class entries that got a six-day head start on the big boats.

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“I never ever mooned Larry Ellison”

• Updated: March 14, 2003

In his own words, Hasso Plattner recalls what happened at the 1996 Kenwood Cup, when his maxi Morning Glory lost its rig. As Larry Ellison has often told it, Plattner mooned his business and sporting rival as Ellison, on board his maxi Sayonara , was sailing by. Plattner has vehemently denied this. Here is his version of the events that day in Hawaii. “We had a business meeting and he told me he was building a maxi yacht, must be 1994 or ’95. My maxi, Morning Glory , came a year later, and from 1996 on we raced against each other. We were racing [at the Kenwood Cup in 1996] and we had a bad first race. Then we had a win in the second and we were about to win the next one and we would’ve been in the lead¿we were faster, we felt we were faster.

I was sailing against [Chris] Dickson, but with Russell [Coutts]’s help. But I steered the whole time Dickson was steering Sayonara and our mast came down. It was the last tack before the windward mark, probably five boat lengths in front of the windward mark, and the whole s–t comes down. “ Sayonara was at that point probably 10 boat lengths behind us because we had a nice little America’s Cup start, we were both late. They had to jibe and nearly hit a spectator boat. We are the second to last boat over the line and they are the last boat over the line. But we were faster than all the other ones. Then it happened. That was probably the turning point. Until then, I tried to have a normal relationship with [Larry]. We had high waves in Hawaii, typical Kenwood Cup waves, our mast is broken at the second spreader.

Somebody goes up in the mast, a French dentist, and cuts and cuts and cuts half of his thumb off. So he comes down, it’s bleeding, I still remember Matthew [Mason] saying, “Don’t look at it. Don’t look at it.” We had another dentist on board and within less than a minute they had the needles and the yarn out because when a dentist loses a thumb they’re done. So they were stitching the thumb together. The fourth spreader was still banging against the hull so everybody was focused on that. Then we secured the mast, cut the other stuff; this happened unbelievably quickly.” Sayonara sailed by, looked at us. You know how sailors are when you see a mishap of somebody else. First you calculate that they’re [out of the race] and you’re ahead and you get a first and they get a did not finish. So that’s probably in their faces and they just sail by and they’re gone. Larry and his whole crew is gone. We start the engine and the engine doesn’t engage. The pin is broken and we are without engine. And now the boat is tumbling in the waves. The mast is secured, but we can’t move. So there are tenders and we ask for help.

We ask the shore base. A tender will be out, but it will take half an hour. A small tender comes, but it can’t take us in the waves, we are too heavy. Here comes Oracle’s tender. Goes around and around. We make all the signals, ‘C’mon pick us up, give us a tow.’ We communicated to them they should not tow us into the harbor, just tow us into the wind so we could clean up the rest and then our tender would come and pick us up and get us home. They didn’t react. They didn’t react. They circled us probably twice. Then I made the official signal. There’s 20 people working and still cleaning up things, I do this here [waves outstretched arms vertically]. They take a video camera and do another round and videotape. When they come the last time from the stern, to take a nice shot from behind. I lowered my pants. I said: ‘If you have to have this on your video, when you go home you should feel s–tty about what you did.’ There is a yacht with 22 people out and we have a serious problem. We have an injury, we don’t know the amount of the injury. But we had blood on the whole boat, we have no engine and we have high waves.

They disappear, so we give them some nice America four-letter words and then a big boat came and it took us one and a half hours to get back in the harbor because we had to go slowly the mast banging. We put everything we had between the mast and the hull. So we go home, the race is over, we are done. “Years later I read in the Wall Street Journal that I mooned Larry Ellison. I write to the Wall Street Journal this is not true and they have to redo this. My advisors say: ‘No, don’t get involved with the Wall Street Journal, it’ll only get worse and everybody will pick up the story.’ I made the mistake and gave in. Then it quieted off and then Larry Ellison brought it up in interviews again, two times. In German, when he came to Germany, he made snide comments, one comment was my ass looked so awful that he feared about the mental health of his crew when he sailed by.

Another story was that I was so pissed when we lost the race and the World Championships in Sardinia in 1997 in Italy that I came by his boat and mooned him. The day when this should’ve happened, he had already left, because he didn’t race the last race because he was not there. They were moored inside, we were moored outside. We never went by him. So now again I ask my lawyers, ‘Shall I do something?’ and they said, ‘Let it die down.'”I met him in Italy and I said, ‘Larry, why are you doing this?'”‘I’m not doing anything. I don’t know what you’re talking about. You never mooned me. I never saw anything.'”I said, ‘Larry, who is writing this s–t?'”‘I don’t know, I will take care of it.'”And then he did it a third time.

So that’s Larry Ellison. Everything has been said. Therefore I would never enter an America’s Cup and sail against him. I do this for fun. What I don’t understand is that he put this in a business context and so I think this is an absolute scandal. And then I ask again my lawyers, ‘I’ll make a statement under oath. I never ever mooned Mr. Larry Ellison, nor his Sayonara crew.’ And isn’t that enough? Is there anybody in the world who believes in me? I have 22 quotes signed by the whole crew, half of them the Black Magic [NZL-32] crew, that it was not Sayonara , it was the tender. Sayonara was long gone. There was no reason. I had nothing with Larry Ellison. He couldn’t help it, he was racing by, he says, ‘Good Bye! Thank you for letting us through.’ I didn’t expect any help from them. But we expected help from any of shore crew. And not taking video. That made me really upset.”

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Famous German owner, SAP computer software co-founder Hasso Plattner has a long history in grand prix yacht racing dating back to the dizzy heights of IOR and his Maxis named Morning Glory. Putting a toe into the waters of the TP52 class world he bought the 2014 Phoenix and had such fun racing it that he and daughter Tina joined the circuit for the full 2018 52 SUPER SERIES season with a brand new build Botin designed Phoenix 11. Since then they have never looked back and have become some of the circuit’s most ardent supporters.

In 2018 Hasso and Tina shared the helming at different regattas with Ed Baird in the tactician’s role supported by Tom Burnham also from Quantum Racing. In Zadar in 2018Tina and the Phoenix team came very close to winning the regatta outright but finished an excellent second, just four points shy of the winning tally of Prada Luna Rossa. In 2019 the Phoenix team ran two boats, but only the newest boat 11, did the full circuit. The 2020 season may have been shortened by the global pandemic but not until after a truly triumphant first ever 52 SUPER SERIES regatta in the home of the Phoenix teams, Cape Town, South Africa. As local hosts and sponsors the Plattner family laid on a fantastic regatta and on the waters both Phoenix teams performed well, Hasso’s team coming close to winning the event, taking bullets in two of the first three races and finishing second overall.

Travel from South Africa in 2021 was difficult but the Plattners pulled out the stops to have Phoenix 11 on the start line with a team which was mix of sailors who have been based in Europe for the season and a few others. Tony Norris, project manager, subbed in and steered in Puerto Portals, Australia’s 2012 Olympic gold medallist and America’s Cup winner Tom Slingsby was tactician and was supported by Cameron Dunn as strategist.

They won their first regatta title in Puerto Portals in 2022 and were title contenders at the end of the season finishing runners up for the season.

Owners Hasso and Tina Plattner are expected to be back steering Phoenix during this season, Argentina’s gold medallist Santi Lange is tactician and won the circuit with Azzurra in 2019.

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During a 1996 race off the coast of Hawaii, Plattner’s yacht, the Morning Glory, had a breakdown. A boat owned by archrival Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, cruised by and the crew allegedly mocked Plattner’s plight by videotaping rather than helping. He famously mooned the camera.

Five years later, the company he helped co-found is demonstrating the same kind of feisty retort Plattner exhibited when he flashed his behind. SAP was slow to grasp the importance of the Internet and it looked as if newcomers would take the lead. But the 29-year-old company is playing catch-up fast while upstarts are sinking.

The secret of Plattner’s success can be found in SAP’s new marketing campaign. “In the old New Economy, it seemed that all a company needed to succeed was a URL and a marketing budget. But in the new New Economy companies are measured by the value they create. Can you increase productivity? Reduce costs? Discover new business?” These are questions software companies — in fact all companies — ought to be asking themselves. Products that make businesses more efficient will be in big demand in an economic downturn, and SAP has been honing its skills in this area for nearly three decades.

The world’s second-largest application-software supplier after Microsoft, SAP soared to global prominence with software that helps speed decision-making, slash costs and give managers control over global empires by bringing together a company’s operations, from order-taking to manufacturing to accounting.

With 15,000 companies as customers, it had the heft to branch out into specialized software for 19 industries — well ahead of Ellison’s Oracle, its closest competitor in this business. In recent years SAP has expanded into building links from the inside of these companies to emerging e-marketplaces, tying together suppliers and customers so they can easily transact online.

A deal Plattner orchestrated in June 2000 to combine forces with Commerce One, a U.S. Internet software company, helped shore up SAP’s strengths in building business-to-business marketplaces on the Web. And now Plattner is gearing up to gain on Siebel Systems, the leading firm in the market for sales force, marketing and customer-service software products. As he has repeatedly demonstrated — on his yacht and in the software sector — Plattner doesn’t like to lose any race.

The Vision Thing: “We want to deliver collaborative processes which move companies forward.”

Forward Spin: While it would be a mistake to underestimate the strengths of players like Siebel and i2, information technology market research firm IDC says SAP’s main competition going forward will be from the software industry’s heaviest hitters. Microsoft bought Great Plains, an enterprise-application software company, in December 2000 and is expected to target part of SAP’s traditional customer base. While IBM isn’t talking about its plans, it is expected to make a defensive play, and Oracle is putting more of its efforts into corporate software applications, SAP’s core strength.

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Morning Glory lives up to her name

• July 25, 2005

Hasso Plattner's maxZ86s Morning Glory breaks Transpac record

Early yesterday morning on a moonlit sea the torch was passed to Hasso Plattner the man whose team outsailed Roy Disney’s and broke his record in the latter’s 15th and final Transpac.

Both were sailing futuristic maxZ86s in the Centennial sailing of the event and both broke Disney’s race record of 7 days 11 hours 41 minutes 11 seconds set in 1999, but Plattner’s Morning Glory was two hours faster than Disney’s fourth and last Pyewacket, lowering the standard to 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds. Pyewacket’s elapsed time was 6:18:32:25.

Their average speeds were 13.9 and 13.7 knots for the 2,225 nautical miles from California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula to the volcanic landmark called Diamond Head just east of Waikiki. Randall Pittman’s Genuine Risk, a Dubois 90 with similar lines, also beat the record with an elapsed time of 6:22:02:35, and Doug Baker’s Magnitude 80 and Doug DeVos’s Windquest were expected to join the club later in the day.

Their performances were remarkable because it wasn’t a particularly windy Transpac. Grant Baldwin, the retiring communications chief, referred repeatedly to “wimpy trade winds,” and Peter Isler, who co-navigated Morning Glory with Ian Moore, said: “We didn’t see 20 knots [of breeze] until the Molokai Channel.”

“These boats are fantastic,” Plattner added. “With the canting keels we have less weight and better righting moment. It’s a pity that more people aren’t joining in.”

Isler said, “This boat goes so fast effortlessly it’s amazing . . . 21, 22, 23 knots, and you don’t have the sensation of speed you have on a smaller boat. Everybody got a lot of sleep. It’s a pretty painless way to go on this boat in these [relatively mild] conditions.”

It was the longest race ever sailed by Russell Coutts, the three-time America’s Cup winner who sailed as a watch captain with Morgan Larson and said, “I really enjoyed it. It’s pretty easy to go 20 knots.” Larson joked, “It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s too fast.”

Morning Glory led most of the way after the three top boats surprised some observers by going their own ways as soon as they passed Santa Catalina Island 22 miles off the California coast. “We stayed together for the first five hours,” Plattner said, smiling. “Then we saw that Pyewacket was going north and we were heading south. Then the next day we swapped.”

The gamesmanship continued until Genuine Risk dropped off the pace and Morning Glory was able to put Pyewacket behind it by as much as 71 miles, but then Pyewacket steadily cut that deficit in half the last couple of days.

“It was great fun until the last minutes when we had a little adrenaline rush with Pyewacket,” Plattner said. “When they came back [Saturday] we were worried.”

Isler sailed the previous race on Pyewacket when Philippe Kahn’s Pegasus ducked south early to gain an edge it never relinquished. Asked if he was thinking about that, Isler said, “Oh, yeah. Having got stung once by just relying on [technical data], we relied more on what was the best path to take.”

Plattner drove the windiest part of the race the final night through the Molokai Channel to the finish, but Morning Glory was a rare Transpac sight when it passed Diamond Head without flying a spinnaker. Plattner and Isler explained that they overstood by delaying their final gybe to be sure they could lay the finishing buoy and had to sail too high an angle to keep the asymmetrical chute filled. “But we still crossed the line doing 16 knots,” Isler said.

Division I (Started 17 July)

1. Morning Glory (R/P maxZ86), Hasso Plattner, Kiel, Germany (0:00:00), elapsed time 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds (betters record of 7:11:41:27 by Pyewacket 3, 1999)

2. Pyewacket (R/P maxZ86), Roy E. Disney, Los Angeles (0:00:00), 6:18:32:25

3. Magnitude 80 (Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long Beach (9:44:58), 138 miles to go

4. Scout Spirit (R/P 77), Bill Turpin, Newport Beach, Calif. (32:21:35), 399

5. Genuine Risk (Dubois 90), Randall Pittman, La Jolla, Calif. (0.00:23), 50

6. Beecom (Reichel/Pugh 72), Isao Mita, Yokohama, Japan (30:16:07), 404

7. Windquest (R/P maxZ86), Dick & Doug DeVos, Holland, Mich. (6:51:07), 184

Division II (Started July 17)

1. Pegasus 52 (Transpac 52), Philippe Kahn, Honolulu (51:49:29), 464

2. Rosebud (Transpac 52), Roger Sturgeon, San Francisco (55:04:54), 501

3. Coruba (N/M 68), Rob and Suzanne Fleming, Seattle (57:52:37), 561

4. Medicine Man (Andrews 61), Bob Lane, Long Beach (45:59:58), 472

5. Trader (Transpac 52), Fred Detwiler, Pompano Beach, Fla. (52:18:39), 529

6. Skylark (S/C 70), Doug Ayres, Newport Beach (52:18:53), 530.

7. Mongoose (Santa Cruz 70), Bradley Thorson, Bellevue, Wash. (57:38:37), 592

8. Ragtime (Spencer 66), Peterson/Richards/Welsh, Honolulu (69:08:37), 675

9. Braveheart (Transpac 52), Charles Burnet, Seattle (55:23:53), 606

10. Merlin (Lee 68), Patricia Steele, Maui, H.I. (41:54:03), 577

11. Bengal 2 (Ohashi 52), Yoshihiko Murase, Nagoya, Japan (64:07:15), 776

12. Renegade (Andrews 70), Dan Sinclair, Vancouver, B.C. (40:03:46), 635

13. Pendragon IV (Davidson 52), John MacLaurin, Encino, Calif. (65:20:10), RETIRED

Division III (Started July 15)

1. Reinrag2 (J/125), Tom Garnier, Portland, Ore. (90:15:09), 493

2. The Cone of Silence (Super 30), Jamie and Jenny Neill, Sydney, Australia (83:69:39), 469

3. Cipango (Andrews 56), Bob & Rob Barton, San Francisco (84:08:21), 490

4. Stealth Chicken (Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (80:52:12), 492

5. Bolt (Nelson/Marek 55), Craig Reynolds, Newport Beach, Calif. (90:16:35), 550

6. Artemis (Andrews 53), Louis Bianco, Seattle (90:58:29), 562

7. Jeito (J/145), Francisco Guzman, Acapulco, Mexico (86:10:42), 571

8. Blue (J/160), Ken and /Cheryl Sears, Nashville, Tenn. (93:03:17), 615

9. Innocent Merriment (J/160), Myron Lyon, San Diego (91:10:54), 630

10. DH-Serena (T1150), David Kuettel/Dave Van Houten, Bel Marin, Calif. (84:32:16), 628

11. Barking Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Concord, Calif. (74:38:45), 616

12. Dasher (S/C 50), Roger Groh, Sausalito, Calif. (89:38:24), 828

13. Chasch Mer (S/C 50), Gib Black, Honolulu (95:31:20), NO REPORT

Division IV (Started July 15)

1. Tabasco (1D35), Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Long Beach. (115:31:05), 613

2. DH-Two Guys On the Edge (1D35), Dan Doyle, Kailua, H.I. (114:54:33), 689

3. Wild Impulse (J/120), Larry Barels, Santa Barbara, Calif. (122:19:04), 733

4. Sensation (1D35), Rodney Hagebols, San Francisco. (115:11:28), 707

5. Kahoots (Andrews 43), Kerry Deaver/Bob Williamson, Newport Beach (119:24:28), 753

6. Pursuit (Custom 48), Norman and Rosemary Dawley, Solomons, Md. (121:2:04), 775

7. Uproarious (Olson 40), Robert Bussard, San Diego. (123:41:45), 818

Division V (Started July 11)

1. DH-Soap Opera (Hobie 33), Scott Self/Nigel Brown, Rockwall, Tex. (141:56:43), 53

2. Brown Sugar (Express 37), Steve Brown, Santa Ana, Calif. (141:30:59), 126

3. Super Gnat (Beneteau First 40.7), Cliff Thompson, San Diego (132:16:04), 79

4. B’Quest (Tripp 40), Challenged America, San Diego (136:41:18), 155

5. Showdown (IMX 38), Pete Meade/Mike Luna/ Paul McDonald, Irvine, Calif. (136:02:44), 171

6. DH-Diablo (J/35), Reed Bernhard/Brian VanderZanden, Anacortes, Wash. (150:24:54), 311

7. Iataia (Beneteau First 40.7), Marcos Rodriguez, Acapulco, Mexico (133:59:14), 242

8. DH-Jacaré (J/35), Jeff Young/Rich Blackman, San Diego (148:46:04), 367

Cal 40 (Started July 11)

1. Ralphie (Cal 40), Davis Pillsbury, Woody Creek, Colo. (165:37:14), 146

2. Psyche (Cal 40), Steve Calhoun, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (166:05:17), 218

3. Illusion (Cal 40), Sally Honey, Palo Alto, Calif. (167:07:37), 225

4. Far Far (Cal 40), Don Grind, Naples, Fla. (164:53:27), 215

5. Seafire (Cal 40), John Harrison, Honolulu. (168:13:35), 237

6. Shaman (Cal 40), Steve Waterloo, Alameda, Calif. (166:13:50), 241

7. Callisto (Cal 40), Jim Eddy, Glendale, Calif. (164:44:47), 233

8. Radiant (Cal 40), Fin Beven, Pasadena, Calif. (164:09:20), 243

9. Dancing Bear (Cal 40), Mark Schrader, Sitka, Alaska. (165:01:55), 270

10. Azure (Cal 40), Rodney Pimentel, Alameda, Calif. (165:50:20), 287

11. Willow Wind (Cal 40), Wendy Siegal, Sunset Beach, Calif. (166:28:31), 312

12. Spectre (Cal 40), Lee Rogge, Seattle. (165:13:28), 328

13. Bubala (Cal 40), Lloyd Sellinger, Newport Beach. (168:51:37), 468

14. California Girl (Cal 40), Don and Betty Lessley, Richmond, Calif. (163:20:29), RETIRED

Aloha A (Started July 11)

1. Between the Sheets (Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina del Rey, Calif., elapsed time 12:12:22:08, corrected time 7:06:08:51

2. Odyssey (58′ yawl), Audrey Steele Burnand, Newport Beach, ET 12:15:10:48, CT 7:06:17:01

3. Plan B (Peterson 48), David Johnson, Long Beach, ET 12:16:52:51, CT 7:09:45:32

4. Madrina (Cabo Rico 56), Dick Simon, Dana Point, Calif. (124:52:04), 46

5. Incredible (Swan 53), Rick Gorman, Los Alamitos, Calif. (126:14:24), 100

6. DH-Charmed Life (Catalina 470), Patricia Garfield/Diane Murray, San Francisco (131:54:20), 325

7. Enchilado (Jeanneau 54), Cesar de Saracho, Mazatlan, Mexico. (112:22:50), 265

8. Shanakee II (Pedrick 74), James Warmington, Costa Mesa, Calif. (83:26:25), 537 (started July 15)

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1. So Far (Swan 48), Larry Hillman, Chicago (147:28:54), 107

2. Pipe Dream (CF 37), John Davis, Long Beach. (164:43:08), 312

3. Wind Dancer (Catalina 42), Paul Edwards, Ventura, Calif. (149:50:14), 234

4. Azure (Swan 441), Samuel Beckey, San Diego. (138:17:59), 539

5. DH-Camille (Stewart 42), James and Ann Read, San Francisco (141:52:48), 1,022

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Hasso Plattner’s Last Stand: 3 Questions as SAP Shuffles Chairmen

Just three months before concluding his legendary career as SAP cofounder, CEO, and ultimately chairman, Hasso Plattner has engineered one last blockbuster maneuver to ensure the software powerhouse he helped launch 52 years ago does not stray from the vision that’s served SAP and its customers remarkably well for half a century.

The company’s carefully worded press release conveys the details behind the big change driven by Plattner but at the same time avoids offering so much as even a hint at the strategic import and impact of the event:

“SAP and Dr. Punit Renjen have mutually agreed to part ways because of a difference in perspective on the role of SAP Supervisory Board chair, which Punit Renjen was designated to assume. Punit Renjen has chosen to resign his mandate on the SAP Supervisory Board with effect from the end of SAP’s Annual General Meeting on May 15, 2024.”

So if that seems a little glossy, here are the details:

• In February 2023, SAP announced that Plattner would step down as chairman of the SAP supervisory board on May 15, 2024. (For my analysis on that from a year ago, please see “ SAP Ultimate Transformation: Iconic Chairman Hasso Plattner to Step Down .”)
• At about the same time, SAP said it had chosen Renjen, the former global CEO of Deloitte, to join the SAP supervisory board and to take Plattner’s place as board chairman in May 2024.
• Last week, per the italicized excerpt above, SAP reversed that decision, meaning Renjen will remain a member of the SAP board until May 15 but will not become chairman and will resign from the SAP board.
• In the same press release disclosing the about-face on Renjen, SAP also disclosed that former Nokia president Pekka Ala-Pietilä, who had served on SAP’s supervisory board for 20 years (2002 to 2021), will be nominated to once again join the supervisory board in May and is expected to be named as Plattner’s successor as chairman.

While it can be tempting to dismiss this 11th-hour melodrama as little more than back-room maneuvering that will have little or no impact on SAP’s everyday business and its customers — and I suspect that SAP would prefer if everyone viewed it that way — I think the SAP chairmen shuffle raises three big questions.

1. After Hasso Plattner steps down, how much power should SAP’s chairman have?

The SAP announcement says Renjen and SAP agreed to cancel his elevation to chairman of the supervisory board because of these 12 words: “a difference in perspective on the role of SAP Supervisory Board chair”. My guess is that Renjen wanted more authority and more power over the company’s strategy and execution than Plattner and the board were willing to give him.

I suspect Renjen wanted to be able to exert the type of influence and impact that Plattner has wielded in his 52 years at the helm of SAP. Renjen might have been thinking that under any other scenario, the role of supervisory board chairman would be seen as diminished, lessened, and reduced.

But that approach would have been doomed from the start because, regardless of whatever title Plattner held across those 52 years — CEO, chairman, chief software advisor — he was always The Man, the ultimate visionary and decision-maker. And no incoming chairman could or would ever be able to wield such power and influence because, in addition to the hands-on impact he had over that half-century with customers, developers, and investors, Plattner remains SAP’s largest sharehold, with his 76 million shares accounting for about 6.2% of SAP’s total shares.

2. What type of working relationship will new chairman-designate Ala-Pietilä have with CEO Christian Klein?

Given the success Klein has had in his four years as SAP’s CEO, I would think that Plattner and the rest of the board have given this question an enormous amount of consideration. In that context, I was surprised to see the following sentence — particularly the words I’ve highlighted — in the SAP press release : “Pekka Ala-Pietilä, 67 years old, has an illustrious track record in European innovation and technology and is well-positioned to lead SAP’s ongoing successful transformation .”

Hey, wait a minute — I thought Klein was already the one leading “SAP’s ongoing successful transformation”? After all, Klein was recently named the Cloud Wars CEO of the Year for 2023 and has presided over a booming cloud business within SAP whose continued growth prospects have pushed SAP’s market cap to an all-time high of $207 billion.

Last April, as Klein was concluding his third year as SAP CEO, I offered this analysis of how Klein was appropriately putting his own mark on the iconic software vendor: “ The New SAP: CEO Christian Klein Builds His Own Leadership Team .”

Given the highly successful trajectory that Klein and SAP are on, I think it would be disastrous for SAP to dump a truckload of sand into the well-lubricated growth machine SAP has become under Klein’s leadership by giving the incoming chairman the latitude to be operating at cross-purposes to what Klein’s already doing. Ergo, I think the line from the press release about Ala-Pietilä being “well-positioned to lead SAP’s ongoing successful transformation” is little more than some nice-sounding commentary intended to reflect well on SAP’s new, new incoming chairman.

3. After Plattner steps down as chairman, how much influence will he have on SAP?

First off, I think we can all be completely certain that Plattner and Klein will observe all legal and regulatory guidelines governing the level of influence someone in Plattner’s position can or cannot have. But at the same time, I think we can be equally certain that Klein will continue to lean heavily on Plattner’s wisdom and vision as SAP transforms into not just a cloud-first company but also an AI-first cloud company.

The relationship that Klein and Plattner have developed across the past quarter-century — Klein started at SAP as an intern in his teens — transcends titles, and their personalities do as well. For all of Plattner’s interests outside of SAP — his institute, the San Jose Sharks, sailboat racing and more — he is as spiritually and psychologically fused with SAP as any person and any corporation could possibly be.

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Final Thought

Hasso Plattner will always be one of the legendary titans of the enterprise-tech business. And regardless of the precise nature of the disagreement with Renjen that led to the mutual agreement that he would not become SAP’s chairman, I have no doubt that Plattner had very good reasons for orchestrating that change as well as for bringing in Ala-Pietila.

And I think that as a result of Hasso Plattner’s Last Stand, SAP is very well equipped to move into the next phase of the Cloud Wars with an incoming chairman who’s been immersed in AI for the past several years and who will be able to complement rather than challenge Klein’s outstanding leadership.

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Olaf Scholz Leads Farewell Tributes to Hasso Plattner

­­­In a worthy send-off for a true great, at the farewell event for SAP co-founder and long-serving SAP Supervisory Board chairman Hasso Plattner, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz praised him for his life’s work.

“An incredible global success story made in Germany.” This is how Scholz opened his speech at the farewell event in honor of SAP’s last serving co-founder, Hasso Plattner. After more than 20 years as its chairman, Plattner had stepped down from the SAP Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on May 15 and handed the reins to his successor, Finnish-born Pekka Ala-Pietilä.

Plattner, Scholz said, has been a key architect of SAP’s success as one of its co-founders, a boundless source of ideas and energy, its CTO, CEO, and then, for more than 20 years, chairman of the SAP Supervisory Board. He has written history in terms of economic development and globalization. “And, today, the entire global economy runs on SAP software,” he said.

But he did not do it alone, Scholz continued. Rather, as was characteristic of Plattner, his every move was made in a spirit of productive competition with others. When Plattner founded SAP with four former IBM colleagues in 1972, he dreamed of one day employing 100 people. Now, SAP has 110,000 employees across the world, all inspired and motivated by Plattner’s “constant and unstoppable drive and energy.”

Scholz also quoted a wise observation of Plattner’s that served as a timely reminder for him: “You can’t put off making changes that need to happen for too long. If you do, this will eventually take its toll and then you’ll have less energy to get the job done.” Innovation was an opportunity, not a threat, said Scholz, adding that, today, artificial intelligence has the potential to inject brand-new momentum into SAP.

Some 4,000 guests – including 3,500 SAP employees – gathered at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany, on May 16 to say goodbye to Plattner. German TV presenter Günther Jauch hosted the event and, in honor of avid rock fan Plattner, musical entertainment was provided by American singer-songwriter Anastacia, who was accompanied by the SAP Symphony Orchestra.

“Zigzag Like a Rabbit”

“We managed to keep up with most trends,” said Plattner, explaining what had made SAP so successful. And although things did not always go to plan, he recalled, “when we did set off on the wrong track, we realized in time and corrected our course.”

The most important thing, he said, was to avoid being too impatient or single-minded about pursuing a new strategy. “You need to be able to zigzag like a rabbit.”

“He Rocked It!”

How, asked SAP CEO Christian Klein in his farewell speech, could he possibly do justice to all of Plattner’s achievements in just 10 minutes? “My kids would say, ‘He rocked it!’” All five of SAP’s co-founders, driven by the desire to create something entirely new, had shown boundless courage in striking out on their own more than half a century ago.

Plattner was the epitome of what SAP must never be allowed to lose, said Klein, namely “a steadfast focus on customers and the ability to listen to and co-innovate with them.”

Klein spoke about the lasting impact Plattner’s global mindset had on SAP. “He drove SAP’s expansion across the world; today, we do business in more than 130 countries, and that is down to our founders and to Hasso.”

The success Plattner orchestrated for SAP in the United States is particularly symbolic of his tireless efforts to push the boundaries, said SAP Supervisory Board member Aicha Evans. He also stood for a future, she said, in which technology and humanity went hand in hand.

Dietmar Hopp: Long-Time Friend and Colleague

Among the audience members was Dietmar Hopp, one of SAP’s co-founders and a long-time friend and colleague of Plattner. “Dietmar was a huge influence on me,” said Plattner. “Most importantly of all, he taught me to work with customers. That changed the way I thought. I made it my mission to look in all areas of my life for ways to use software to improve people’s lives.”

Ambition and rivalry are part of the founders’ legacy, too. Many a racket was thrown in frustration when Hopp and Plattner faced off on the tennis court, recalled Klein. But Plattner had also given him this advice: “It’s important to win, but SAP is about more than winning; it’s also about helping others.”

Philanthropist and Patron of Science

The Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, addressed the audience in a video message. As well as praising Plattner’s entrepreneurial spirit and creativity, Kretschmann paid tribute to his “immense sense of responsibility beyond the realms of business – particularly in education, art, and sport.”

Alongside his business career, Plattner always had a close affinity with research and development, said Kretschmann. In 1998, he founded the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam, near Berlin.

As well as generously supporting educational and cultural causes, Plattner developed a particular love of art. One of the projects he funded was the reconstruction of a palace in the historic center of Potsdam that is now the Museum Barberini and home to an impressive collection of Impressionist works.

“Your hometown of Potsdam means the world to you,” said Scholz, describing Plattner’s work as a patron and philanthropist as “instrumental in helping Potsdam blossom and flourish over recent decades.”

Scholz added that he had no doubt whatsoever that Plattner would continue to hatch new ideas, make bold plans, and drive ambitious projects. “I believe that is simply the person you are. With or without an official role, it’s what you do.”

Photography courtesy Ingo Cordes.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hasso Plattner & family

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Hasso Plattner & family

When it comes to successful entrepreneurs and innovative business leaders, names like Hasso Plattner often come to mind. Hasso Plattner is a German businessman and co-founder of the global enterprise software company SAP SE. He is also an influential figure in philanthropy and sports. While many may be familiar with his professional achievements, there are several fascinating aspects of his life that remain lesser known. In this article, we uncover 10 things you didn’t know about Hasso Plattner and his family.

1. Early Life & Education

As the first child of a successful Hamburg businessman, Hasso Plattner was born on January 21, 1944, in Berlin, Germany. In his early years, he developed a passion for mathematics and technology, laying the foundation for his future endeavors. Plattner studied computer science and economics at the University of Karlsruhe, where his interest in software and data management deepened.

2. Co-Founder of SAP SE

Hasso Plattner played a pivotal role in the founding of SAP SE. Along with four other colleagues, Plattner created the company in 1972 with the vision of developing software solutions for businesses. Today, SAP is recognized as one of the world’s leading providers of business software, and Plattner’s contributions to its success are immeasurable.

3. Philanthropy & Donations

Beyond his remarkable business achievements, Hasso Plattner is deeply committed to philanthropy. He has made significant donations to various causes, particularly in the field of education and technology. Plattner established the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam, which focuses on cutting-edge research and education in digital engineering.

4. Passion for Sports: Yacht Racing

Hasso Plattner is an avid sports enthusiast, particularly when it comes to yacht racing. He has been involved in the sport for over two decades and even founded the professional sailing team, Team Germany. Plattner’s team competed in various prestigious races, including the America’s Cup, showcasing both his love for competition and his dedication to excellence in all endeavors.

5. Art Collector & Cultural Patron

Aside from his involvement in technology and sports, Hasso Plattner is also an art collector and cultural patron. His collection includes artworks from renowned artists such as Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Plattner also supports various cultural institutions and museums, contributing to the preservation and promotion of art and history.

6. Academia and Global Speaker

Plattner’s passion for knowledge and innovation extends to academia, where he serves as an honorary professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University. He frequently shares his expertise and insights as a global speaker at conferences and events around the world. Plattner’s ability to bridge the gap between industry and academia contributes to his reputation as a thought leader.

7. Love for Classic Cars

Among his diverse interests, Hasso Plattner has a significant passion for classic cars. He is an avid collector, with a particular fondness for vintage automobiles. Plattner’s collection includes remarkable pieces such as a 1931 Mercedes-Benz SSKL and a 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Roadster, highlighting his appreciation for the timeless beauty and craftsmanship of these vehicles.

8. Environmental Initiatives

Plattner’s commitment to environmental conservation and sustainability is evident through his involvement in various initiatives. He actively supports renewable energy projects and has invested in companies focused on eco-friendly technologies. Plattner’s efforts reflect his dedication to creating a better future for both current and future generations.

9. Family Life & Relocation

Hasso Plattner and his wife, Sabine Plattner, have two children and are known for valuing privacy. The family resides primarily in Potsdam, Germany. However, they also own properties and frequently spend time in other locations, including California and South Africa.

10. Philanthropic Endeavors: Ocean Conservation

Plattner’s philanthropic efforts extend to the preservation of the world’s oceans. He has made substantial donations towards initiatives focused on protecting marine life and habitats. Plattner’s commitment to ocean conservation aims to raise awareness about the importance of preserving these valuable ecosystems.

Despite his immense success and influence, Hasso Plattner remains a down-to-earth individual with a passion for philanthropy, innovation, and diverse interests. His contributions and accomplishments continue to inspire and shape various fields, leaving a lasting impact on society.

— Useful Links: Hasso Plattner Institute SAP SE Official Website Team Germany

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Always on view: Impressionism: Hasso Plattner Collection

The permanent exhibition at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam presents museum founder Hasso Plattner’s extensive collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. With 114 masterpieces by 23 artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Henri-Edmond Cross, and Paul Signac, the collection shows French landscape painting in a uniquely coherent and comprehensive way. With 40 paintings by Claude Monet, it is the largest collection of Monet’s work in Europe outside of Paris, making Potsdam one of the most important centers of Impressionist landscape painting worldwide.

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From Impressionism to Fauvism

Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley joined forces as an artists’ group in the 1860s. Liberating themselves from the traditional motifs of their time, they revolutionized art with their sun-drenched landscapes. In 1874, they became known as “Impressionists,” working in the open air and capturing fleeting impressions directly on the canvas. Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, and Gustave Caillebotte later joined this new artistic movement, and Paul Signac and Henri-Edmond Cross further developed the Impressionist style with Pointillism in the 1890s. The early twentieth-century Fauves, including Maurice de Vlaminck and André Derain, turned their back on Impressionism and Pointillism in favor of a painting style marked by flat, brilliant colors. The Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, and Fauves all pursued the same ideal: to evoke the sensory experience of nature through light and color.

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“As viewers, we are immediately drawn into the paintings. We feel the wind on our skin and the temperature of the water when we look at Monet’s sailboats on the Seine. No other art can do that. The Impressionists are geniuses of communication.”

The Hasso Plattner Collection in the Museum Barberini

French Impressionism has been the focus of museum founder Hasso Plattner’s collecting activities since 2000. In the fall of 2020, about three years after the opening of the Museum Barberini, Hasso Plattner transferred 103 works from his private collection and from the holdings of the Hasso Plattner Foundation to the museum on permanent loan. In 2022 and 2023, ten new acquisitions were added to the collection, including a painting from Claude Monet’s famous series of the Houses of Parliament in London. The collection now comprises 114 masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism by 23 artists. With 40 paintings by Claude Monet, the museum holds the largest group of Monet’s works in Europe outside of France, as well as outstanding pieces by Caillebotte, Pissarro, Signac, Sisley, and Vlaminck. Among the best-known paintings in the collection are Caillebotte’s  The Argenteuil Bridge and the Seine  (ca. 1883), Signac’s  The Port at Sunset, Opus 236 (Saint-Tropez)  (1892), and Monet’s Grainstacks  (1890),  The Palazzo Contarini  (1908), and Water Lilies  (1914–17).

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“No other collection can show French Impressionist landscape painting so comprehensively and coherently, in terms of both development and iconography. Through our works, visitors can learn not only about the history of this fascinating art movement, but also about the subsequent development of landscape painting by the Neo-Impressionists and Fauvists.”

The collection on view in the Museum Barberini spans the period from the 1850s to the early twentieth century and brings together works by three generations of artists who often worked together, traveled to the same places to paint, and mutually inspired each other. With nine major themes, the permanent exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of French landscape painting through the styles of Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, and Fauvism.

Please note that the Fauve room will be closed for the duration of the Munch exhibition.

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Over 110 works by 23 artists tell the story of French Impressionism—from its beginnings in the 19th century to its continued development by the Pointillists and Fauves of classic modernism.

“With its permanent exhibition of Impressionists, Potsdam moves far to the front of the rankings for German museum locations”

“SAP founder Hasso Plattner gives his art collection a museum home. The Museum Barberini in Potsdam now proudly displays Impressionist paintings”

“A coup! Impressionism collection of Hasso Plattner now permanently on view in Potsdam”

“Such an abundance of French landscapes and city paintings are now on view here, from Pissarro to Picasso, that one hardly wants to go back out into the outside world”

“In Potsdam, more than a hundred masterpieces from the collection of SAP founder Hasso Plattner are now on view in a permanent exhibition at the Museum Barberini”

“A moment of joy, a beacon of hope, a spirit of generosity, a homage to nature ... a must-see destination for the birth of modern art“