Listen "#34: Pascal Bensoussan Chief Product Officer of Ivalua"
Episode Synopsis
Pascal Bensoussan is the Chief Product Officer Ivalua. He leads the global R&D team at Ivalua, encompassing Product Management, Design, Data Science, and all Engineering activities, with responsibilities over the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, development, and go-to-market plans for Ivalua’s cloud-based Source-to-Pay platform.Pascal brings 23 years of experience leading product strategy and development at Enterprise SaaS companies. Most recently, Pascal served as CPO at Reputation.com helping grow revenue 5x during his 4-year tenure.Ivalua was founded in 2000 on a disruptive idea: that Procurement can unlock significant strategic value from a company’s spend and supply chain. 19 years later, we have helped over 300 leading companies achieve a competitive advantage by strategically managing over USD 500 Billion in spend.Discover more details here.Some of the highlights of the episode:[07:15] Ivalua is a single code base platform. What are the advantages?[10:14] The city of New York using Ivalua to find suppliers for their 6 mil/week demand for masks[18:09] Using computer vision and machine learning in contract management[22:25] Creating the biggest directory of suppliers and connecting them with customers[29:35] The important skills for Ivalua when hiring[35:35] Leading by example and growth mindset vs fixed mindsetFollow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd