5 Payment Pain Points and How to Solve Them
Inefficiency, lack of spend optimization, and out-of-policy spend and compliance negatively impact payment processes. With these challenges, how do you get...
Gene Cook
Senior Director, Coupa Pay Alliance Partners
Gene has been an integral part to the success of the Coupa Pay alliances built and developed while at Coupa for the past year and a half. Developing the go-to-market strategy and success of these partnerships, all while delivering unsurpassed client value, is what Gene thinks about every single day. Prior to that, Gene ran the major bank alliances at SAP Concur for several years. Gene and his family reside in beautiful Upstate New York.
Oil and Gas: Lessons Learned in 2020 and How to Prepare for the Future
The oil and gas industry has experienced more uncertainty in 2020 than ever before, this is largely due to the pandemic...
Armando Urias
VP Coupa - Southwest
Armando Urias, VP Coupa - Southwest, is a seasoned software sales executive with a passion for driving real results. He has spent the majority of his career working with various Oil & Gas companies to enable business transformation, and currently resides in Houston, TX.
With Treasury rates at record lows, many treasury departments are looking for short-term, risk-free investments for excess cash. Early payment discounts...
Amit Baid & J.R. Robertson
Amit Baid is the Vice President and General Manager, Coupa Pay, and is responsible for managing all aspects of Coupa's Working Capital Optimization Solutions Business. Prior to Coupa, Amit founded, TradeFin, which was India's first working capital marketplace. TradeFin was acquired by Coupa. He is passionate about building and scaling software products and businesses. He has an MBA from The Wharton School, an Electronics Engineering Degree from NIT in India, and resides in New Jersey.
J.R. Robertson, Vice President, Coupa Pay, is an entrepreneurial enthusiast and culture builder at Coupa. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Marketing Management from California State University, Chico, and currently resides in the smoky state of California.
Cutting costs and mitigating risk is top of mind for many CFOs, especially in times of business uncertainty. One area that...
Placing tighter reigns on Travel and Expense (T&E)—which is second only to payroll as the most controllable expense for most companies—is...
Tracy Gao
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Coupa T&E Solutions, Coupa Software
Tracy Gao oversees product marketing for Coupa's T&E solutions. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Communication from Stanford University.
Accounts Payable (AP) managers often lament how they're viewed by their executive team: "We aren't seen as strategic to the business!"...
Ariane Lindblom
Vice President, Product & Segment Marketing, Coupa Software
Ariane Lindblom is Vice President, Product & Segment Marketing at Coupa Software focused on mid-sized and fast-growth business best practices at Coupa. She is passionate about helping organizations to spend smarter to fuel growth, innovation, and unparalleled success.
How to Scale Your Contingent Workforce for Business Agility
Businesses of all sizes have scaled their contingent workforce over the past decade. A new report by research firm Ardent Partners...
Tamir Shafer
Vice President of Coupa Contingent Workforce (CCW)
Tamir Shafer is responsible for strategically growing this segment of Coupa's business. Tamir holds a BSc in Finance from the University at Albany, SUNY, and resides in Boca Raton, Florida.
Learn What Resilient Companies Do Differently - Harvard Business Review Webinar
"What should companies do to prepare for a recession?" This prescient question was posed a year ago in a Harvard Business...
Why Cost Control is More Important than Ever
After years of steady economic growth, businesses around the globe are confronted with uncertainty. The challenge for finance leaders today is...
Unlock the Strategic Value of Spend in Uncertain Business Times
For years, our focus as CFOs was to allocate capital across many competing growth objectives. Tasked to build scalable finance processes...
The Impact Coronavirus is Having on Corporate Spending
Every quarter, we publish the Coupa Business Spend Index (BSI), a leading indicator of economic growth based on analyzing business spend...
Jeff Collins, Ph.D.
VP, Business Value Engineering, Coupa Software
Jeff Collins is a customer-focused value engineering professional with more than 22 years of experience working with companies across industries to discover and realize business performance improvement and competitive advantage through strategic investment. He is a passionate advocate for partnering with customers to uncover high value opportunities to leverage technology and enterprise software, especially Big Data, Advanced Analytics, Mobility, and Cloud.
Coupa's Business Spend Index (BSI): Can It Predict Recessions?
The U.S. has experienced the longest period of economic expansion in history. Prior to the global outbreak of the coronavirus, many...
B2B Payment Management Systems Reimagined for the 2020's
For many organizations operating on a global scale, the payments process can bring considerable challenges and risks. With payments made to...
Understanding How Employees & Suppliers Rationalize Spend Fraud
What's the typical fraudster thinking? If somebody asked you to describe a typical fraudster, what would you say? How would you...
Joshua Danielson
Senior Product Manager, AI/Machine Learning, Coupa Software
Joshua Danielson holds an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona and resides in San Francisco.
Are you feeling nostalgic for the days when your worst nightmare was failing to close the books on time? Today, as...