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This list showcases the top United States 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:
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- 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.
Jim Lamon
CEO of DEPCOM Power
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About DEPCOM Power: DEPCOM Power is a renewables and environment company that designs and builds cost-effective solar power plants.
Reggie Aggarwal (CEO and Founder)
Founder & CEO of Cvent
Reggie Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Cvent, the leader in meetings, events and hospitality software. A lawyer by trade, Reggie founded Cvent in 1999 as a two-person startup, with the goal of making meeting planning easier for his peers in the business community. Reggie was named the #1 SaaS CEO by The SaaS Report in their 2019 Top 50 SaaS CEO list and Entrepreneur of the Year for the Washington, DC area by Ernst & Young. He was also named the most admired CEO in the Washington, DC area by the Washington Business Journal, one of the 100 most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and a rising star by Forbes Magazine. He has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. He has also been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and several other popular news shows.
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About Cvent: Cvent delivers the most comprehensive event marketing & management platform, maximizing the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.
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.
Neeraj Shah
CEO of supplier.io
Neeraj Shah is the CEO at supplier.io
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About CVM Solutions, supplier.io: Supplier data and analytics to power supply chain solutions.
Kevin Frechette
Co-Founder & CEO of Fairmarkit
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fairmarkit.
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About Fairmarkit: Fairmarkit is an intelligent sourcing platform that empowers organizations to more efficiently purchase the goods and services they need.
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
David Jenkins
President & CEO of Conservice
Dave was working in property management when he recognized the need for a better utility billing solution in the multifamily industry. He founded Conservice in 2000, relying on his HR background to attract a team of talented employees to grow the business. Dave still oversees the daily operations of the company, fostering a unique work environment where employees are encouraged to share their ideas. Dave received a bachelor’s degree in business management and a master’s degree in human resource management, both from Utah State University.
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About Conservice: Conservice is the largest utility management and billing company in the United States.
Zachary Garippa
Co-Founder and CEO of Order
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About Order: Order is a guided B2B marketplace that helps businesses place orders, control spend, and submit payment across their vendors.
Shakeia Kegler
Founder and CEO of GovLia
Founder of GovLia.
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About Camelback Ventures, Code To Eat, Envolve Entrepreneurship, GovLia, OPERATION120: GovLia simplifies procurement and certification processes for diverse businesses to increase participation and foster economic growth.
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.
David Yarkin
Founder and CEO of Procurated
David Yarkin is a recognized expert on innovation in public sector procurement. As Pennsylvania’s chief procurement officer, David led what has been called “the most sweeping transformation of state procurement in decades.” During his tenure, the Commonwealth saved $140 million annually through strategic sourcing and quadrupled its small, minority and women owned business participation rate. During his time in state procurement, David experienced firsthand a seminal challenges faced by his peers nationally – the mediocre job that the traditional reference process does in informing purchasers about a supplier’s past performance. He founded Procurated to solve this problem for the public procurement community. David founded Government Sourcing Solutions, a public procurement consulting firm in 2004 and remains its President. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University and lives in Washington, DC with his wife Courtney and kids Anna, Ben and Sam.
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About Procurated: Procurated is the platform enabling public sector organizations to incorporate peer reviews in their supplier selection process.
Sara Clarke
Co-Founder and CEO of Concertiv
Sara Clarke is the CEO and co-founder of Concertiv.
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About Concertiv: Concertiv is a strategic sourcing advisor leveraging deep analytics and group buying power.
Kent Dicks
President, Founder & CEO of Life365
Kent E. Dicks is CEO and Founder of Life365 Inc., an innovative digital health platform for connected care at home, based in Tempe, AZ. Previously Kent was CEO and Founder of MedApps, a remote health monitoring solution, which he guided from startup in 2006 to acquisition by a $3 billion rapid diagnostic manufacturer in 2012. After acquisition, he continued to lead the company as a new Connected Health division until 2015. His 30+ years of business experience also includes founding a successful information technology and engineering staffing firm that was acquired in 2008, prior to that he held positions at American Express and Texas Instruments as a lead consultant and programmer. In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Mr. Dicks has advocated the value of connected health technology through media interviews and industry panel discussions. He has also authored numerous articles, white papers, and provided testimony before Congress as a mobile health expert. Additionally, Kent participates in a range of initiatives that support Arizona’s startup community. Kent is a graduate of Arizona State University. He was named 2017 Healthcare Innovator of the Year by AZ Big Media and 2017 Healthcare Innovator by AZ Business Magazine.
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About Life365, Phoenix Business Journal Leadership Trust: Life365 is a virtual care platform for remote patient monitoring.
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.
Joe Blunda
CEO of Forager
Joe Blunda serves as the CEO of Forager.
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About Forager: Forager is a digital procurement-to-payment platform designed to simplify the local food sourcing.
David Ranallo
Founder & CEO of Azoti Inc.
David Ranallo is Founder & CEO at Azoti Inc.
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About Azoti Inc.: Planning & eProcurement SaaS for Professional Food Buyers
Kennedy Muteti
Founder, CEO of Cloudsyte
I have spent the last ten years overseeing strategic supply chains for industry-leading manufacturing companies such as Nortek, Travelpro Products, and IPG. During that time, I managed over $20 million of annual inventory spend, won numerous awards, influenced others to achieve results, and succeeded in high-pressure environments. I co-founded Cloudsyte to automate and eliminate manual and repetitive daily processes in procurement. Specialties: Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing, Strategic Planning and Sourcing, Forecasting, Supplier Management, Finance
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About Cloudsyte: Cloud-based supply chain, manufacturing and sustainability orchestration system for brands and governments.
Sean Harley
Co-Founder and CEO of LUPR
Sean Harley is the co-founder and CEO of LUPR.
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About LUPR: LUPR provides a supplier relationship management platform that allows executives to capture, communicate, and analyze all supplier insights.
Tom Kieley
CEO & Co-Founder of SourceDay
Tom Kieley Co-Founder SourceDay.com.
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About RightGift, SourceDay: SourceDay is a modern purchase order management platform for syteline, epicor, and netSuite ERPs.
Dwight Gibbs
Chief Executive Officer of Contraqer
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About Contraqer, DC CTO Club: Contraqer, a SaaS procurement management system, automates the entire procurement process from RFQ generation to delivery.
Rich Kucera
CEO & Founder of Symmetric Health Solutions
Rich Kucera is the managing principal at Symmetric Health Solutions.
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About Symmetric Health Solutions: Symmetric Health Solutions provides a healthcare supply and analytics platform for medical supplies.
Ben Vaught
CEO of DemandStar Corporation
Ben Vaught is the CEO of DemandStar Corporation.
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About DemandStar Corporation: DemandStar connects businesses to local government contracting opportunities.
Chris Heckler
President & CEO, Founder of Valify
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About Valify: Valify offers a purchased services technology solution that allows organizations to quickly identify, benchmark, and track savings.
Julio de Unamuno IV
Chief Executive Officer of LabFellows
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About LabFellows: LabFellows is the integrated lab management platform.
Anke Corbin
Founder & CEO of Globig
Anke Corbin is the founder and CEO of Globig. Her background includes executive positions in sales, marketing, product management, and business development for US, EU and Japan at startups and enterprise companies including MapQuest, Time Inc., Times Mirror Magazines, and more. Anke has a MA in Integrated Marketing and enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling anywhere, languages, cooking and enjoying good food, and playing in the mountains.
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About Globig, Splick.it: Globig makes it easy for SMEs to manage global data compliance (GDPR), int’l employees, customers, services, and back office all in one
Amy Gasca
CEO of Torch Energy
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About Torch Energy: Torch Energy is a company that allows individuals to name their own price for energy that they buy.
Phil Fersht
Founder, CEO and Chief Analyst of HFS Research
Phil Fersht is founder and Chief Executive Officer at HfS Research. He is an acclaimed author, analyst and visionary in Global Business Services and Outsourcing, the Digital Transformation of enterprise operations and talent strategies. Fersht founded HfS Research in 2010 and has masterminded the development of the HfS organization as a leading analyst for the firm, in addition to steering the business operations.Under Fersht’s stewardship, HfS Research has become a leading industry analyst firm. At HfS, he directs the firm’s research, advisory and global knowledge community, which today totals over 100,000 professionals and is served by a respected global analyst team. He is also author and creator of the most widely-read and acclaimed blog in the global services industry, entitled “Horses for Sources” and now entering its ninth year, attracting over a million visits per year across the globe. Phil received a Bachelor of Science, with Honors, in European Business & Technology from Coventry University, United Kingdom and a Diplôme Universitaire de Technologie in Business & Technology from the University of Grenoble, France. He also has a diploma from the Market Research Society in the United Kingdom.
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About HFS Research: It is our mission to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations
Talia Mashiach
CEO, Founder & Product Architect of Eved
Talia Mashiach is the CEO, Founder & Product Architect at Eved.
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About Eved: Eved is an event commerce company built by event experts for event experts.
Greg Allen
CEO of Aviva Energy Corp.
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About Aviva Energy Corp.: Aviva Energy is a provider of energy monitoring, data metrics, usage and procurement consulting services.
Venkata (Prasad) Kunisetty
Founder & CEO of Effexoft
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About Effexoft: Effexoft is a SaaS based Supply Chain Management solutions company on Salesforce platform. Core product is Effecta.
Eric V Cunningham
Founder and CEO of PAAS
Eric V. Cunningham is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PAAS.
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About PAAS: PAAS is a spend analytics SaaS company focusing on the Technology category utilizing AI and ML.
Joseph Toe
Co-Founder & CEO of VendorMS, Inc.
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About VendorMS, Inc.: VendorMS is an intuitive and fully customizable supplier relationship management platform.
Brian Utley
President & CEO of Periscope Holdings
Brian Utley leads Periscope Holdings, Inc., laying the foundation on which the company has built its leading purpose to eradicate waste and maximize value. Brian takes a customer-oriented approach in leading Periscope, ensuring that all business functions align with Periscope’s purpose. This dedication helps the company to succeed in saving money and enhancing transparency for the public sector entities and institutions of higher education it serves. Brian is a public procurement thought leader, known for actively driving innovation and striving to deliver on the promise of purpose-based procurement. In earlier years, he was employed at a government agency, which is where he acquired the initiative to raise efficiency and streamline processes for the public sector. Brian offers more than 15 years of experience in public affairs, public relations, strategic consulting, marketing, and political consulting. He also provides extensive expertise in public procurement and is an NIGP Government Certified Contractor (GCC). Prior to joining Periscope, Brian served as Special Assistant to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. In addition to leading numerous real estate investments, Brian previously worked as a director at Temerlin McClain Advertising, helping companies and political organizations fulfill their communications objectives. Brian is extremely involved in community service as a board member for the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation and the Busby Foundation (fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease). He is also an active member of the Young President’s Organization and formerly served as the membership chairman. Brian earned his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from the University of Texas – Dallas.
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About Periscope Holdings: Periscope Holdings helps organizations build a better procurement process.
Rupert Hopkins
CEO & Founder of XSB
Rupert Hopkins is the Chief Executive Officer at XSB.
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About XSB: XSB delivers information insights for public sector procurement, supply chain management, and standards document automation.
Mike Simms
Founder & CEO of The Simms Group
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About The Simms Group: The Simms Group renders procurement, management consulting, strategy, training and advice services.
Mike Simms
Founder & CEO of The Simms Group
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About The Simms Group: The Simms Group renders procurement, management consulting, strategy, training and advice services.
David Ricker
Founder and CEO of BroadJump, LLC
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About BroadJump, LLC: BroadJump is a SaaS-based healthcare supply chain analytics company focused on medical surgical, PPI, and purchased services.
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
