15 rising star employees at SAP that are becoming its next crop of power players

SAP's competitors like to paint the world's largest maker of business applications as an old stodgy company. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently called SAP a "dinosaur," for example.

But to the company's 75,600 worldwide employees in more than 130 countries, nothing could be further from the truth.

They see a company with its fair share of young, brilliant leaders.

Here's a short list of some of the behind-the-scenes rising star leaders at SAP, some of whom lead jet-setting lives, others who are creating brilliant technologies, still others who are world-class athletes.

All of them want to change the world and think SAP is the place for them to do it.