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This list showcases the top United States based COO’ operating in the Procurement space. If you think a COO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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- 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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Chris Ney
President & COO of Silverback Enterprise Group, Inc.
Chris Ney is Co-Founder, President and COO of Silverback Enterprise Group. Founded in 2010 and backed by Austin Ventures, a venture capital firm with $3.9 billion capital raised. Silverback acquires and builds industry-leading enterprise software companies. In the past 20 months, Silverback has completed five acquisitions and its subsidiary Upland Software is today the worlds largest cloud software company in the enterprise project, portfolio and work management market, with over 1,200 active enterprise customers and more than 300,000 active users in 50 countries.Creating operations platforms with strategic processes and a platform for rapid turnaround and integration of acquired entities. Prior to Silverback, Chris was CEO of a series of Trilogy/Versata portfolio software companies. He previously served as Chairman of the Board, CEO, and Founder of CoreTrac, a financial services CRM software company. Chris began his career in 1990 working for Wall Street firms Lehman Brothers and UBS.
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About Blackstone Group, Silverback Enterprise Group, Inc.: Silverback Enterprise Group acquires, optimizes and develops enterprise software companies.
Tarek Alaruri
Co-Founder & COO of Fairmarkit
Tarek Alaruri is the COO 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.
Josh Webman
Chief Operating Officer of Concertiv
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About Concertiv: Concertiv is a strategic sourcing advisor leveraging deep analytics and group buying power.
Alex Hurd
Chief Operating Officer of ClarusONE Sourcing Services
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About ClarusONE Sourcing Services: ClarusONE Sourcing Services is involved in the strategic sourcing of generic pharmaceuticals at a competitive cost to meet consumer demand.
Scott Keough
Co-Founder & COO of Contraqer
Scott is President of Contraqer and is primarily responsible for sales. Previously he was a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. In that role, he was a key leader in developing cloud computing capabilities and also led business development and client service delivery teams at the US Census Bureau. Prior to Booz Allen Hamilton, Scott worked for GTSI Corp. In that role he lead IT infrastructure solution teams, managed the $60M Microsoft product and service business, and provided enterprise software business development support to federal civilian accounts. Prior to GTSI, Scott held multiple product management, channel, and marketing roles at MicroStrategy. In these roles, he oversaw marketing activities for three successful product releases and launched a successful, oversubscribed and first ever Partner Summit. Prior to MicroStrategy, Scott led a product company that was a pre-cursor to modern cloud services, providing website content creation and edit capabilities through a web browser. Scott holds a top secret (TS) clearance including a single scope background investigation (SSBI). Scott holds an MBA from Georgetown University and Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) and a B.A. in Economics from The University of Michigan.
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About Contraqer: Contraqer, a SaaS procurement management system, automates the entire procurement process from RFQ generation to delivery.
Ryan Kissell
COO, VP Engineering of Symmetric Health Solutions
Ryan Kissell 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.
Ann Stewart Zachwieja
Co-Founder and COO of Globig
Ann Stewart Zachwieja has a background in technical product management and marketing, and has worked in US companies with an international presence. Ann loves to travel and has been to Asia, Europe, and throughout North America for work and for fun. Always up for learning new things, she has an MBA, a degree in International Studies, and has studied German, Russian, and Mandarin.
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About Globig: Globig makes it easy for SMEs to manage global data compliance (GDPR), int’l employees, customers, services, and back office all in one
Daryl Hammett
COO of ConnXus
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About ConnXus: ConnXus is an IT company that develops supplier management software.
Chris Kennedy
COO of Periscope Holdings
Chris Kennedy As Chief Operating Officer, Chris Kennedy is responsible for executive leadership over all the solutions Periscope provides to our customers, including product, development, technology infrastructure, implementation services, and support. Chris has been with Periscope since 2005, serving as Vice President of Services until December of 2015. During that period, he led Periscope’s teams working directly with customers to implement and support our eProcurement implementations at states, local governments, school districts, and universities across the nation. Prior to joining Periscope, Chris was a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting’s Public Sector Strategy and Operations practice. Previously, he held various positions with the State of Texas, including with the Office of the Governor, House of Representatives, and the state’s environmental regulatory agency. Chris earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Trinity University, and his Master of Public Affairs/Master of Arts in Latin American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
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About Periscope Holdings: Periscope Holdings helps organizations build a better procurement process.