Mark Kuehner currently serves as Director on the Gaia-X Board of Directors and holds the position of VP Cloud Architecture & Engineering at SAP. As the Founder of mkd.ai and with experience as a Senior Technical Manager at Amadeus, Mark has extensive expertise in architecture and technical program management, particularly in system engineering, network architecture, and data center architecture. Notably, Mark led the first implementation of HANA Enterprise Cloud and designed SAP's initial cloud data center network. Mark's educational background includes executive education in technology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as studies at the University of Mannheim and Technische Universität Ilmenau.