Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Rob is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Coupa. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. 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.