Technologie & Innovation

Nikolai Diekert is a Director of Product Management at Coupa Treasury. A certified corporate treasurer,  he spent nearly five years at BELLIN in presales and then in product management before joining Coupa. He designs board games (Plutocracy and €uro Crisis) in his free time and holds a degree in mathematics.

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.

Anthony Tate is Director, Product Marketing, EMEA at Coupa. He is passionate about tech, in particular the role of people, process and technology in organisational strategy and how to successfully drive digital transformation. Anthony holds an M.A. (Dist) in Marketing Communications and a B.A.(Hons) in Commercial Studies from the University of Westminster, and he current resides in London, England.

Hari Murakonda is currently Principal of AI Centre of Excellence at Coupa and leads AI driven classification projects at Coupa. Hari comes with a background in data science with over 10 years of experience. Prior to Coupa, Hari was a Solution Architect at LLamasoft, and Opex Analytics where he led several ML driven solutions to problems in Supply chain and Operations across several fortune 500 Retail, Consumer products, and Airline companies. Hari was an early employee at Opex Analytics and played key role scaling the company, followed by acquisitions to LLamasoft and then Coupa. Hari holds Master’s degree in Analytics at Northwestern University and Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS-Pilani.

Prathmesh Shelar is a Data Scientist at Coupa’s AI-Center of Excellence. He joined Coupa as a fresher in 2020 after completing his graduation in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.