SolutionMap Analysts

Pierre Mitchell

Managing Director and Chief Research Officer
AZUL PARTNERS, INC. and SPEND MATTERS

Editorial Coverage:
Source-to-Pay, Procurement Services and General Technology (SaaS, PaaS, Procurement Architecture)

Pierre Mitchell

Managing Director and Chief Research Officer - AZUL PARTNERS, INC. and SPEND MATTERS

Pierre leads procurement research and IP development at Spend Matters, and is the chief architect of the firm’s industry leading SolutionMap^SM framework. He has 30 years of industry, advisory, and research experience and is a recognized digital procurement transformation expert specializing in advanced supply processes, practices, metrics, and enabling digital tools and services. Previously, Pierre led procurement research at The Hackett Group, and also coined the term “guided buying” in his role as the industry’s first procurement technology market analyst at AMR Research (now part of Gartner Group).

Magnus Bergfors

VP European Research and Lead Analyst
Spend Matters

Editorial Coverage:
Spend Matters Europe

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Magnus Bergfors

VP European Research and Lead Analyst - Spend Matters

Magnus has been a procurement professional throughout his career with deep expertise in strategic sourcing and SRM. Before joining Spend Matters, he worked at Gartner as lead analyst and agenda manager on procurement and strategic sourcing applications. He started out in the early 2000s as direct materials procurement at AstraZeneca and worked in various procurement and strategic sourcing roles at Scandinavian Airlines, IBX, Atlas Copco Tools, Effective Sourcing AB and SAAB. He brings a Europe-centric eye to procurement technology analysis and the challenges affecting the CPO community.

Andrew Karpie

Research Director, Services and Labor Procurement
Spend Matters

Editorial Coverage:
Services and Labor Procurement (VMS, MSPs, Talent Marketplaces, B2B Gig Economy)

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Andrew Karpie

Research Director, Services and Labor Procurement - Spend Matters

Andrew has over 30 years experience working as an analyst, executive, and adviser at the business intersection of technology and services. His first brush with procurement came early in his career when he was a network planner for a Ford Aerospace telecom services subsidiary, responsible for leasing high speed digital bandwidth facilities from emerging suppliers. In his long career, he followed the thread of information and communications technology (ICT) across a number of different service industry verticals and small to large companies in a variety of analytical planning and management roles (both buy and sell side). In more recent years, beginning as a research analyst at Staffing Industry Analysts, he has become focused as an analyst, writer, and adviser researching the rapidly changing services and labor supply chains (especially the impact of technology). Andrew holds an MS in Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University, where he first learned to code in FORTRAN and developed a deep appreciation for the value of data and statistics He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys time with his family and volunteering as a Pet Assisted Therapy dog handler.

Michael Lamoureux

Lead Analyst and Futurist
Spend Matters

Editorial Coverage:
Sourcing, Spend Analytics, Supplier Management and Advanced Technology (e.g., Artificial Intelligence)

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Michael Lamoureux

Lead Analyst and Futurist - Spend Matters

Michael Lamoureux is one of the most prolific writers and experts in the procurement and supply chain areas. He is joining forces with Spend Matters to contribute to SolutionMap and related projects. He also continues to serve as “the doctor” of sourcing innovation, a leading resource for education on supply management best practices, technologies and trends. Michael’s path to procurement falls outside the box. After leaving academia upon completing his Ph.D. he worked for a few early e-commerce companies where he designed online databases and virtual shopping carts before most people even knew what the World Wide Web was. During these activities, he stumbled onto a startup that wanted to change procurement forever by bringing optimization to strategic sourcing. His job at this firm, as the first hire, quickly morphed from building the data model, to feed the optimization model, to building the sourcing model itself. After this, he worked on next generation online marketplaces, large-scale global supply and distribution models as well as next generation strategic sourcing decision optimization technology. In 2006, he started his own blog, and since then, has always enjoyed – well, almost always – the banter with Jason Busch and company at Spend Matters. Michael, Jason and the rest of the team are thrilled to be finally collaborating on a formal basis.

Xavier Olivera

Lead Analyst and Editor
Spend Matters and Spend Matters Mexico y América Latina

Editorial Coverage:
E-Procurement, E-Invoicing, P2P, and Mexico/LATAM

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Xavier Olivera

Lead Analyst and Editor - Spend Matters and Spend Matters Mexico y América Latina

Xavier has over 15 years of professional experience in IT and Management Consulting Services for Supply Chain, Procurement Transformation and Strategic Sourcing (Accenture, Bearing Point and D&G); Procure 2 Pay SaaS & Analytics solutions (Coupa & Ariba), ERP solutions (SAP & Peoplesoft).

Nick Heinzmann

Associate Analyst
Spend Matters

Editorial Coverage:
CLM

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Nick Heinzmann

Associate Analyst - Spend Matters

As Associate Analyst, Nick supports senior analysts in research and project delivery for clients. He also covers emerging and niche vendors within the procurement technology sector. Prior to his role as an analyst, Nick ran production for Brand Studio engagements, as well as served as the site editor for Spend Matters, where he first cut his teeth in procurement writing and editing the latest news, research and thought leadership on the sector. A two-time graduate of Northwestern University, he holds an MSJ from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.

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