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This list showcases the top California based CEO’ operating in the Procurement space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
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Doug Ludlow
Co-Founder and CEO of MainStreet
Doug is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MainStreet, a company creating jobs in rural and suburban communities. Previously, Doug was the Founder of Hipster, which was acquired by AOL in March of 2012. Hipster had raised $1M from Google Ventures, BoxGroup, CRV, Lerer Hippeau, Ludlow Ventures, Techstars, 500 Startups, Mitch Kapor, David Tisch, and other distinguished angels. In addition, Doug is a 2007 alumni of TechStars Boulder, having founded madKast (acquired by ShareThis.com in 2008).
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Rajesh Kalidindi
Founder & CEO of LevaData
Rajesh has over twelve years of experience managing strategic sourcing and supplier management for large enterprises. He’s delivered significant bottom line savings through data-driven procurement practices for Cisco and Palm. An MBA with concentrations in supply chain management and information systems from Michigan State University, he is a thought leader on fusing human with artificial intelligence for procurement innovation.
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About LevaData: LevaData develops a supply management platform that helps control risks, reduce costs, and accelerate new product development.
Christian Lanng
Co-Founder & Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Tradeshift
Christian Lanng is founder of Tradeshift.com. Previously he was Head of the Center for Service oriented Infrastructure in the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency. Christian has 10 years of experience working with mobile-services, e-business, SOA and large scale payment systems. He managed the roll-out of service oriented infrastructure in the Danish public sector and supervised the next generation of SOA e-business infrastructure for all Danish companies and the public sector. He is an active member of a number of European e-business and infrastructure initiatives. He holds a bachelor degree in Sociology and is currently writing his master on emergent social systems.
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About The World Economic Forum, Tradeshift: Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers.
Rujul Zaparde
Co-Founder & CEO of Zip
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About Evergreen, Zip: Zip is the world’s leading intake-to-procure solution: one place for employees to initiate a purchase or vendor requests.
Suresh Sambandam
Founder & CEO of Kissflow
Suresh Sambandam is the CEO of Kissflow, the first unified digital workplace for organizations to manage all of their work on a single, unified platform. Kissflow is used by over 10,000 customers across 160 countries, including more than fifty Fortune 500 companies. Suresh is an expert and renowned entrepreneur on a mission to democratize cutting-edge technologies and help enterprises seamlessly orchestrate their work through an intuitive blend of collaboration, coordination and control. He has three US patents to his credit.
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About Kissflow, OrangeScape: Kissflow is a leading SaaS software provider in the work management space.
David Khuat-Duy
Founder, Corporate CEO of Ivalua
A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, a world-class educational and research establishment, and with a PhD in Mathematics, David spent several years as a SAP consultant at Pricewaterhouse Coopers working on the architecture, design and implementation of ERP for international accounts. In 2000, David founded Ivalua and built a senior Executive team to set the foundations for best-in class software design, continuous sales growth, and rigorous operations management. Those efforts have allowed Ivalua to be among top global software vendors in the Spend Management area, to operate globally and to be one of the best complementary solutions to ERPs to manage Spend.
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About Ivalua: Ivalua provides web-based spend management solutions that offers a modular suite covering the Spend Management spectrum.
Aman Mann
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Procurify
Crazy Passion for Innovation or just Crazy! Aman is our Chief Executive Officer. He creates, communicates, and implements the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction. His experience in the business world and understanding of needs is a tremendous asset to the company. When he is not working, he is usually working out or trying to expand his mind with new adventures. Recently, he participated in the Tough Mudder 2012 competition in Whistler, BC.
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About Procurify: Procurify streamlines purchases, gives optimized spending, and increases visibility throughout the entire procure-to-pay process.
Paola Santana
Founder and CEO of GLASS
Paola Santana is a lawyer, public procurement expert and tech entrepreneur creating the world’s next political system after democracy. She’s the founder and CEO of Social Glass, a software ecosystem using Artificial Intelligence to power high-performing governments. Previously, she co-founded Matternet, a Silicon Valley company pioneering drone logistics networks. Under her leadership, Matternet engaged with The White House, US Congress, FAA, and NASA to enact the first drone regulation in the United States in 2016, and became the world’s first drone delivery platform authorized for permanent operations over a populated city in 2017. She co-established the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court, and worked at the National Elections Court coordinating the Elections Litigation Chamber. She has also collaborated with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the OECD, developing striking public infrastructure projects and strategic partnerships integrating exponential technologies. She’s best known for her ability to create things from scratch at the intersection of the public, private and regulatory domains, and for her track record introducing cutting-edge technologies into highly-regulated markets. Her most recent experience includes co-drafting the public-private partnership enabling the first multi-state Hyperloop system in the United States. A Fulbright scholar and graduate from George Washington, Georgetown and Singularity University, she’s been featured as CNET Top 20 Latin in Tech, Forbes Top 50 Women of Power in Central America and the Dominican Republic, LinkedIn Top 10 Professionals Under 35 in Enterprise Tech, and served as Lead of the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Unmanned Aircraft Systems Advisory Group, and appointed member of the first FAA Drone Advisory Committee. She’s currently Faculty at Singularity University, and Mentor for the Social Entrepreneurship Labs Incubator at Stanford University and Google AI.
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About GLASS: a Silicon Valley e-Commerce startup revolutionizing how governments buy
Steve Flagg
Founder & CEO of SupplyFrame
Currently CEO & Founder at Supplyframe where we are organizing the world of engineering knowledge to help people build better hardware products. Before founding SupplyFrame, Steve was VP of Sales & Business Development at eConnections, a pioneering supply chain management platform for high-tech manufacturing. Previously, Steve ran business units at electronic component distributors Avnet and Marshall Industries. Specialties: General Management, corporate development, strategy, M&A, product development, business operations, international expansion, product marketing, sales, business models
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About EEFOCUS, Hackaday, SupplyFrame: Supplyframe is the Industry Network for electronics design and manufacturing.
Michael Concannon
CEO of SpendVu
Michael leads ThinkSmart’s engineering, operations and security teams ensuring reliability and success for ThinkSmart clients. Michael began his career in software at Kaiser Permanente and Deloitte Consulting, where he ran multiple large scale software development and implementation projects, specializing in data driven application development.
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About Department 3 (D3), SimpliGov, SpendVu, ThinkSmart: Solutions that drive supply chain innovation, cost reduction & greater value management across top tier organizations in healthcare.
Mariel Reed
Cofounder and CEO of CoProcure
Cofounder of CoProcure. Previously with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, where I scaled Startup in Residence, a procurement program connecting hundreds of startups and tens of local governments across the country. Early employee at Coursera, where I 5x’d our growth in Asia. Community organizer, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, Georgetown SFS grad.
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About CoProcure: CoProcure makes it easy for public agencies to save time and money by purchasing together.
Ryan Belcher
Founder & CEO of Spendwise
Ryan is the Founder & CEO of Spendwise and has over twenty years of experience in accounting and finance working with high tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ryan began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where his clients included Cisco, Polycom and Handspring. He later became the Controller of FoxHollow Technologies where he built and led the accounting team, and helped take the company public as it grew from $0 to 200 million in revenue and from 50 to 550 in headcount. Ryan has served as CFO for multiple startups and is passionate about innovation and building cutting edge companies. Ryan earned his B.A. in Accounting from the University of Utah.
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About RCB Consulting, Spendwise: Spendwise is affordable easy-to-use online software for business spend management.
Sky Kelley
Founder & CEO of Avisare
Sky Kelley is the founder and CEO of Avisare.
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About Avisare: Avisare is the centralized network for all businesses to discover new contract opportunities, and bid on any using one universal profile.
Julio de Unamuno IV
Chief Executive Officer of LabFellows
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About LabFellows: LabFellows is the integrated lab management platform.
Grzegorz Gwiazdowski
CEO of Klaud
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About Klaud: Klaud is an app that helps procure suppliers for businesses.
Grzegorz Gwiazdowski
CEO of Klaud
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About Klaud: Klaud is an app that helps procure suppliers for businesses.
Chris Doig
CEO of Wayferry
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About Wayferry: Technology Purchasing Decision Support
