Business Spend Management Blog

Meg is an experienced product marketer with a passion for sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance). With 7 years in product marketing and 12 years in general marketing, she has a proven track record of success in product marketing, sales enablement, and go-to-market strategy. She leverages this experience to help companies identify how they can use their existing budgets for the most impact.

Meg is an expert in creating and executing sales enablement and sales communication programs, as well as designing powerful sales presentations and customer stories. She is also highly skilled in deriving, delivering, and presenting on key data insights. Meg is committed to sustainability and ESG, and is always looking for ways to incorporate these values into her work.

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.

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.

Gina Tesla leads Coupa’s Environmental, Social, and Governance team, spanning sustainability, social impact and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She also serves as the Empower Board Chair (Coupa's Women's Employee Resource Group).

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.

Based at the Coupa’s Black Forest Campus in Ettenheim, Germany, Judith has specialized in treasury management since 2014.

Dr. Adeel Najmi — Chief Product Officer at SourceDay
Dr. Najmi loves the outdoors and enjoys painting. Adeel has guided successful digital transformations at over 25 Fortune 500 companies. 

Dr. Madhav Durbha — Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy, Coupa Software
Dr. Durbha and his Coupa team help 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.

Avik Ghosh a Senior Director in the Product Strategy and Innovation Team at Coupa and focuses on developing new solutions that maximize business value using the power of data and community.ai.  HIs background in management consulting and engineering includes experiences with standing up procurement organizations, taxonomy design, strategic sourcing, finance transformation, and cost-restructuring, lean six-sigma process improvement.

Brent Sisson is a Product Management Director at Coupa who focuses on multiple data first product offerings as well as Coupa’s community.ai initiative. The goal of all of these offerings is to bring advanced insights to customers' BSM practice to better enable their success.

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

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.

Kevin Farrell — VP, Global Strategic Alliances, Coupa Software
With more than 32+ years of sales and alliance experience, Kevin serves as Coupa’s Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances and is based out of Boston, MA. In this role, he and his team develop new opportunities with Coupa's Business Spend Management platform engaging with the largest global Alliance Partners.

Karen Sun — Sr. Director, Channel Marketing, Coupa Software
Karen leads Channel Marketing for Coupa's Global System Integrator, Management Consulting, and Managed Services Provider partners. With 15 years of cross-functional experience in Strategic Alliances, Product Marketing, and SaaS Customer Success Programs, Karen is focused on bringing the most value to Coupa customers in collaboration with our ecosystem partners.

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.

Vanessa Cisz is a B2B storytelling professional with more than 15 years of experience in helping organizations convey the real value of their technology solutions. She holds degrees in creative writing as well as English and German literature.