Coupa

Coupa is a cloud-based spend management software company located in San Mateo,[2] California.

The company was founded in 2006[3] by Dave Stephens and Noah Eisner.[3] Stephens and Eisner previously worked at Oracle (enterprise procurement applications).[3] Rob Bernshteyn joined Coupa as CEO in February 2009 after serving as Vice President of Global Product Marketing and Management at SuccessFactors, Inc.[4] Former Yahoo CEO and PayPal president Scott Thompson joined the company’s board of directors in April 2013.

In 2014, The company added a new operation in Dublin, Ireland;[5] Paris, France and Frankfurt, Germany. Coupa’s other international operations include its offices in Australia and its EMEA headquarters in the United Kingdom.

The company’s competitors include Zycus, GEP, Verian, Ariba,[6][7] Oracle (which has Oracle iProcure),[8] Procurify,[9] SciQuest,[10] PROACTIS[11] Ketera[12] and SAP.
Rob is the CEO of Coupa, and drives the company’s strategy and execution. Since 2009, Rob has led Coupa to a 100% revenue growth and 95% customer renewal rate for four consecutive years.

Rob has over 18 years of experience in the business software industry. He came to Coupa from SuccessFactors, where he ran Global Product Marketing & Management, as a member of the executive management team; as the company scaled from an early start up to a successful public company.

Prior to that, Rob directed Product Management at Siebel Systems, where he helped build Siebel ERM into one of the company’s fastest growing product lines. Rob also did a stint in management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and spent four years at Accenture, where he focused on global SAP systems implementations.

Rob is a guest lecturer at Harvard and Stanford business schools, and a frequent contributor to Forbes and Fortune magazines. He can often be heard providing commentary on major news programs including Bloomberg’s Money Moves and NPR Morning Edition.

Rob holds a BS in Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from Harvard Business School.