Coupa News & Culture

Coupa Recognized for a Third Time in a Row as a Market Leader in Ardent Partners’ 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor Evaluation
For the third consecutive time, Coupa is positioned as a Market Leader in Ardent Partners’ 2023 ePayables Technology Advisor report...
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  • Coupa has been positioned in the Leaders Category in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications 2023 Vendor Assessment...
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    Coupa Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Procurement Applications Vendor Assessment
  • At Coupa, we’re building a best-of-breed ecosystem of partners that offers a wide range of services, training, and customized solutions to...
    Roger Goulart
    Roger Goulart
    EVP, Business Development and Alliances, Coupa Software

    Roger Goulart, EVP of Business Development and Alliances, is responsible for extending Coupa Software’s value through partnerships with technology and distribution partners. He brings more than twenty years of sales, alliance, business development, support and professional services management experience to Coupa.

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    Coupa Celebrates Partner Ecosystem with Second Annual Coupa Partner Connect Awards
  • Coupa customers are revitalizing their organizations’ processes in ways that make their companies stronger, smarter, and safer. These actions create ripple...
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    Coupa’s Spendsetter Awards: Celebrating Customer Success in BSM, Supply Chain, and ESG
  • For the third time, Coupa has been positioned in the Leaders Category in its IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Travel...
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    Coupa Recognized as a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled T&E Applications for Midmarket 2022–2023 Vendor Assessment
  • Throughout the year, I’ve been fortunate enough to meet many procurement leaders, customers, and partners around the globe. Reflecting on this...
    Michael van Keulen
    Michael van Keulen
    Chief Procurement Officer, Coupa

    Michael van Keulen (aka “MVK”), Coupa's Chief Procurement Officer, has been in finance and procurement for 20+ years at high growth global companies where he managed procurement transformations and digitized the procurement process, driving significant stakeholder value.  Michael is a procurement fanatic, passionate about elevating the role of procurement by applying best in class practices and enabling business spend management through the power of digitization.

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    The Year in Reflection as CPO and an Outlook to 2023
  • It feels different for everyone. It might start as a slow tightening in the nose and throat, a thickening of mucus...
    Gina Tesla
    Gina Tesla
    Coupa Empower Board Chair

    Gina leads Coupa’s Environmental, Social, and Governance team, spanning sustainability, social impact and diversity, equity & inclusion. She is the Coupa Empower Board Chair.

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    Healthier Air for All Requires All of Us - Global Impact Week at Coupa
  • With three major software releases per year, our Product and Engineering teams must evaluate what to include in each release —...
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lead Performance Engineer, Coupa Software

    Lokesh Gulechha, a Lead Performance Engineer based out of Pune, India, has worked at Coupa since 2020. He consistently develops and implements innovative ideas which transform business operations, enable dramatic quality improvement, increase productivity and reduce operational costs. He believes in using disruptive innovation and transformation in the technology space to enhance enterprise business. Lokesh is the author of several publications and frequently speaks at conferences and training sessions to aid others in using tech to transform business operations.

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    Our Core Values: The Key to Product Development That Drives Results
  • Just over two years ago, we announced that Coupa had acquired LLamasoft: a day I remember like it happened yesterday. Throughout...
    Dr. Madhav Durbha
    Dr. Madhav Durbha
    VP of Supply Chain Strategy, Coupa Software

    Dr. Madhav Durbha is the Vice President of Supply Chain Strategy Coupa Software, where his team helps customers and prospects solve various supply chain challenges. Prior to Coupa, Dr. Durbha held positions at LLamasoft, Kinaxis, JDA Software and i2 Technologies, Inc. With more than 20 years in the supply chain industry, Dr. Durbha has broad experience in strategy & process consulting, supply chain software, program management, software application development & deployment, machine learning and data science. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras.

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    The Road Ahead: Two Years After LLamasoft’s Acquisition
  • Many things returned to normal this year — or at least back to a new normal. But 2022 has also presented...
    John Callan
    John Callan
    Sr. Director, EMEA Product & Segment Marketing, Coupa

    John Callan is responsible for product marketing and go-to-market strategies for the Coupa Spend Management platform. John earned his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a dual degree in Engineering and Mathematics from University of Dublin, Trinity College.

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    Coupa Named a 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ Leader in Procure-to-Pay Suites for the Seventh Time in a Row
  • As enterprise software products and companies grow, the need for more tools to scale the product, expedite the process, and improve...
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lokesh Gulechha
    Lead Performance Engineer, Coupa Software

    Lokesh Gulechha, a Lead Performance Engineer based out of Pune, India, has worked at Coupa since 2020. He consistently develops and implements innovative ideas which transform business operations, enable dramatic quality improvement, increase productivity and reduce operational costs. He believes in using disruptive innovation and transformation in the technology space to enhance enterprise business. Lokesh is the author of several publications and frequently speaks at conferences and training sessions to aid others in using tech to transform business operations.

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    Coupa Engineers Believe Hard Work Must Be Replaced With Smart Work
  • Today, Forrester has named Coupa as a leader in The Forrester WaveTM: Collaborative Supply Networks, Q4 2022. This report is aimed...
    Stephanie Buck
    Stephanie Buck
    Content Marketing & Storytelling Manager, Coupa

    Stephanie is passionate about storytelling and helping leaders, businesses, and organizations transform the way they connect with their customers, prospects, and others. At Coupa, she leads storytelling and content production efforts for supply chain. She brings over a decade of experience supporting marketing and communications with impact-oriented enterprises and mission-driven organizations. She earned her Master's degree from the London School of Economics and her Bachelor's degree from Texas Christian University. She grew up in the Chicago area, but currently calls Washington, D.C. home.

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    Coupa Named a Leader in Forrester’s Wave for Collaborative Supply Networks
  • OAuth2 Case Studies based on HackerOne Public Disclosure Reports Even though OAuth2 has been the industry-standard authorization framework since it replaced...
    Daniel Yang
    Daniel Yang
    Sr. Software Engineer, Application Security, Coupa

    By developing a streamlined SSDLC, Daniel Yang collaborates with development teams to secure applications and their data. Daniel's experience with application security spans pen testing, security researching and building some security automation tools. He has found some vulnerabilities in a number of the most well-known web applications, including Joomla, PHPBB, Moodle and others.

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    How to Identify OAuth2 Vulnerabilities and Mitigate Risks
  • When I found out Coupa was going to receive a Customers’ Choice distinction for supply chain planning, the first thing that...
    Andrew McCarley
    Andrew McCarley
    VP Global Customer Value Management, Coupa Software

    Andrew McCarley is the Vice President of Customer Value Management at Coupa Software, where his team of Value Directors are tasked with helping Coupa customers achieve increased realization of value through their existing entitlements. Prior to Coupa Software, Andrew held various positions in the Software, CPG, and Retail industries, including LLamasoft, Opex Analytics, S.C. Johnson, Starbucks, and Unilever. Over the past 17 years, Andrew has helped organizations deliver incremental value through supply chain and digital transformations, S&OP implementations, COE development, and software implementations. In 2022, Andrew was an SDCExec's Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Logistics from the University of Tennessee and a Masters in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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    Coupa Receives Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice Distinction for Supply Chain Planning
  • Effective search functionality is critical to enhancing Business Spend Management (BSM), especially during economic downturns when supply chain issues or travel...
    Mark Reed
    Mark Reed
    Director of Technology, Coupa

    Mark Reed is a Director of Technology at Coupa. He is passionate about search, machine learning, and technology that helps people find what they need more effectively. He has previously worked in several startups and has been with Coupa for four years. Mark holds a Computer Engineering degree from Case Western Reserve University and currently resides in the Cincinnati area in the United States.

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    3 Ways Coupa’s Development Team Designs Effective Search Functionality
  • One of the biggest lessons from the pandemic is the importance of building strong relationships. Connections across procurement, supply chain, and...
    Helen Trim
    Helen Trim
    Senior Vice President of Marketing for EMEA and Asia Pacific, Coupa Software

    Helen is Senior Vice President of Marketing for EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. She leads the development of the go-to-market strategies and customer acquisition programs required to meet pipeline generation, acceleration and revenue targets for these culturally diverse regions.

    Over her 25-yr career, Helen has developed strong entrepreneurial roots from co-founding a number of digital and social media agencies. More recently she has held intrapreneurial leadership roles in disruptive, US SaaS technology businesses. She is a strong believer in balancing the talents of both creative thinkers and data scientists to achieve successful business outcomes.

    Helen is a Coupa LevelUp Mentor and an active member of two important Coupa diversity and inclusion initiatives: Illuminate, an LGBTQ+ program and Empower, a women in procurement community that supports breaking down barriers to women’s success in the industry.

    Helen is also an advisor at Collider, an accelerator driving the future of marketing and sales technology for startups, corporates and investors.

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