Coupa News & Culture

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since graduating from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India in 2013, the ethos of my career has always been "Never Stop Building".

The six years I spent with my first employer was a crazy rollercoaster ride, building several products all in different domains:  consumer e-commerce, private label furniture, social media application, and a SAAS product to help companies run crypto-backed token economies.

In early 2020, I joined Coupa, a leader in the Business Spend Management community, and over the last two years with them as they’ve grown from under 1000 to nearly 3500 employees overall, I have transitioned from an individual contributor role to an Engineering Manager role.

Tom is an innovative leader that leverages a deep knowledge of collaborative sales methodologies to deliver high quality customer experiences. His experience includes design & development of automated process control systems, and definition & development of software solutions within enterprise and government environments.

Jake is a Product Marketing leader with extensive software experience including product strategy, customer needs, requirements, positioning, collateral, technical marketing, pricing, and field enablement.

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.

Vincent Tosca is a product executive and technology enthusiast with entrepreneurial experience at startups and SaaS companies. His interests include the cloud, DevOps, IoT, and fintech. His specialties include product management & strategy, product marketing, agile, SaaS, cloud, DevOps, and analytics.

Brett Simon is Senior Director of Corporate Development at Coupa, working on both M&A and strategic investments via Coupa Ventures. Prior to Coupa, Brett was at F5 Networks, where he managed a variety of strategic acquisitions for the company, ranging from small “tuck-ins” to $1 billion+ deals. He also spent several years doing sell-side investment banking.

Ryan is a Supply Chain leader with 14+ years of experience at the intersection of global public health, supply chains, sustainability and technology.

He has consulted on supply chain design in over 30 countries across six continents and myriad industries including customers in the commercial and public sectors, as well as the US Department of Defense. In the public health domain, he has advised the WHO, The Global Fund, World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, amongst other international organizations on programs ranging from HIV/AIDS testing and treatment, Maternal and Child Health, Family Planning, Malaria Prevention, and COVID-19 vaccination. Ryan completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Industrial & Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and is an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador.

With more than 25 years of global channel experience, Sally Stephens leads the strategy and implementation of Coupa’s overall partner programs, including the program development, the go-to market strategy, and channel operations.

Mark is the Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at Coupa where he champions, orchestrates, and advances the customer experience across Coupa's ever-more-complex range of customer interactions. With more than 25 years of experience, Mark has a consistent track record of creating and scaling customer-facing teams across organizations while delivering optimal success to internal and external stakeholders. Prior to Coupa, Mark worked as the Chief Customer Officer and General Manager for Bazaarvoice during the period of rapid revenue growth and was also part of the team that led the company through its initial public offering (IPO).