WHAT: Coupa Software, the leading SaaS provider of cloud-based financial solutions, today announced the speakers for INSPIRE 2014, its annual user conference. Finance professionals, procurement leaders and industry analysts will gather to exchange best practices for reducing costs and learning about Coupa’s announcements of new solutions.

WHO: Scott Cooper, VP of Global Procurement at Armstrong World Industries, and María Margarita (Paca) Zuleta, General Director of Colombia Compra Eficiente, will be headlining Coupa INSPIRE, alongside Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa CEO, and Raja Hammoud, VP of Product Management, Coupa.

Cooper joined Armstrong in May 2010 as VP Global Procurement. Prior to Armstrong, Scott spent ten years at Dell, Inc. where he was director for Worldwide Procurement in the company’s Round Rock, Texas, corporate office. During his tenure at Dell he held various roles building global organizations in both the indirect and direct spend arenas.

Zuleta is a Colombian lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in project development, 19 years in the private sector and 4 years in the Colombian government. In 2012, Paca was appointed the first General Director of Colombia Compra Eficiente, the public procurement agency recently created by President Juan Manuel Santos.

Other speakers include Jason Busch, Executive Editor and Founder of Spend Matters, and Bert Jacobs, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Optimist of Life is Good.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 15 – Thursday, April 17, 2014

WHERE: San Francisco Marriot Marquis

780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103