Leaders in Tech and Ecommerce

#31: Gabe Perez VP APAC at Coupa Software


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Gabe Perez is one of the first 30 Coupa employees and has worn multiple hats in various roles which include Presales, Implementations, Sales Management, and Marketing to name a few. Has been a key player in Coupa’s IPO team that helped make Coupa be a hit through increasing their share value by almost 10X ongoing. 

As the Vice President of Asia Pacific, he has led the team in growing the Asia business by 300%.   

Coupa Sofware a leader in cloud-based spend management, recently announced that its customers have connected and done business with more than five million unique suppliers through Coupa’s Open Business Network™. Coupa continues to have one of the largest business networks in the world, which encompasses customers and suppliers doing business in more than 100 countries.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:

  • How Coupa provides a real-time control tower of all of your spending, risks, contracts, invoicing, and more.
  • Coupa’s motto: “We don’t really care about customer satisfaction. We only care about customer success.”
  • Why some customers had their results mentioned by CFOs on earnings calls.
  • PWC survey of 450 CFOs – the number one thing that was top of mind – implementing cost containment.
  • How one of the clients – an airport – cut out a million dollars in funding that allowed them to keep the business stable.
  • A German auto manufacturer ran $2 billion of the direct spend through Coupa sourcing optimization had $200 million savings in the first three months.
  •  The best piece of advice: “Never be satisfied!”

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