Gerald West

About Gerald

Gerald West is Principal Advisor at CaroKahn Ltd, a London-based advisory practice specialising in SAP security and controls across four domains: application access governance, continuous controls monitoring, data protection and security, and AI risk and controls. He has spent 28 years in SAP security and controls – 25 of them as a customer, including 16 years inside Serco Group plc, a FTSE 250 outsourcer, latterly as Head of Application Security and Controls, and the last three advising SAP customers on protecting and unlocking business value through their controls – keeping the ones that work, retiring the ones that don’t, and building the ones they are missing. Across more than a hundred SAP implementations and upgrades he has designed, run, assured and been audited on the controls most organisations are now trying to extend to AI, and has seen a good many of them fail in production after passing on paper. He is the creator of the AI Periodic Table, a free interactive map of the AI landscape with governance and risk lenses and an SAP Business AI edition. He holds a CISM qualification from ISACA and an MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. At SAPinsider Copenhagen 2026 he presents a pre-conference workshop on the AI Periodic Table and a main-conference session, The AI You Banned and the AI You Bought.