Top 10: Industry CEOs

Behind every resilient supply chain and every bold sourcing transformation, there's a CEO driving the agenda. In an era defined by volatility, sustainability pressures, and the rapid rise of AI-enabled procurement, industry leadership has never mattered more.

From AI agents to orchestration layers setting new benchmarks for transparency and efficiency, the executives on this list are proving that procurement isn't just a cost centre. It's a competitive weapon.

Procurement Magazine looks at the top 10 CEOs leading the way.

10. Aatish Dedhia

Company: Zycus
Founded: 1998

Aatish Dedhia is the Founder and CEO of Zycus, the driving force behind its Agentic AI procurement platform. Championing the shift from transactional processing to outcome-driven procurement.

Aatish has led Zycus "Beyond S2P" into the era of "Intake to Outcomes." Under his guidance, Zycus launched the Merlin Agentic Platform, featuring autonomous AI agents like ANA for contract negotiations and Merlin Intake for request routing, all anchored by a robust, organically built Source-to-Pay foundation.

9. Joel Hyatt

Company: Globality
Founded: 2015

Joel Hyatt is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of San Francisco-based Globality.  Joel has spent his career successfully launching and scaling disruptive service companies.

At Globality, Joel is leading the shift from legacy sourcing processes that take months to complete, to autonomous procurement that delivers better sourcing outcomes in hours or days. The Glo platform applies agentic AI to execute sourcing events from intake to award across strategic indirect, tail and direct spend, delivering 10-20% cost savings and 60-90% faster cycle times for Global 2000 enterprises.

Sourcing is where the largest efficiency and cost opportunity sits, and it is precisely where the legacy S2P platforms fall short. Glo closes that gap, executing sourcing events autonomously, so procurement teams deliver more. Joel's conviction is that procurement is not a cost centre to be managed but a performance lever as decisive as revenue growth, and Globality’s customers are proving it every day.

8. Clay Magouyrk & Mike Sicilia

Company: Oracle
Founded: 1977

Leading Oracle’s dual-headed charge into the future, Clay and Mike have repositioned their SCM and Procurement Cloud as a powerhouse of applied AI. While Clay focuses on the underlying cloud infrastructure that makes real-time processing possible, Mike has pioneered intent-based application generation.

This allows procurement leaders to describe a new workflow in plain English and have the system build it instantly. Their partnership has made Oracle the gold standard for high-performance, AI-native procurement at an enterprise scale.

7. Sudhir Bhojwani

Company: ORO Labs
Founded: 2020

Sudhir Bhojwani is the Co-Founder and CEO of ORO Labs, bringing decades of enterprise software and procurement leadership experience to the company.

A veteran of digital transformation, his career includes key product leadership roles at SAP Ariba. Today, Sudhir utilises his strong product background to drive innovation at ORO Labs, focusing on simplifying and humanising complex procurement processes through intuitive, user-first design to enable smarter enterprise purchasing.

6. Andrew Roszko

Company: JAGGAER
Founded: 1995

Andrew Roszko has reinvigorated JAGGAER with a vision for Autonomous Commerce. His leadership has seen the firm lean heavily into specialised verticals like manufacturing and higher education, where complex supply chains require more than just basic sourcing tools.

By implementing self-governing supplier networks, Andrew is helping companies build resilience against global shocks. His tenure is marked by a shift towards intelligent systems that can predict shortages and suggest alternative suppliers.

5. Subhash Makhija

Company: GEP
Founded: 1999

Subhash Makhija is the Co-Founder and leader of GEP, transforming it since 1999 into a global supply chain pioneer with 6,000 employees. An EY Entrepreneur of the Year and chemical engineering Ph.D., he leverages AI and digital innovation to drive sustainable global supply chains. 

Guided by a vision of a kinder supply chain, Subhash actively combats child labour and cycles of poverty, partnering with global humanitarian organisations and dedicating his personal philanthropy to child education and women’s empowerment.

4. Franck Lheureux

Company: Ivalua
Founded: 2000

Franck Lheureux has maintained Ivalua’s position as the most flexible platform for complex global enterprises. In 2026, he became a leading voice for Moral Procurement, using the platform’s deep data capabilities to help firms track Scope 3 emissions and ensure ethical standards across several tiers of the supply chain.

Franck’s focus on the circular economy and green sourcing has made Ivalua indispensable for organisations that view sustainability as a core component of their brand value.

3. Christian Klein

Company: SAP
Founded: 1972

As the head of the world’s largest business network, Christian Klein has successfully steered SAP Ariba into the AI age. By embedding the Joule agent across the entire procurement workflow, Christian has turned the "system of record" into a "system of action."

His focus for 2026 is on hyper-automation, where the software anticipates needs based on production schedules and executes sourcing events automatically. Christian’s leadership ensures that SAP remains the bedrock of global trade for the world’s largest companies.

2. Rujul Zaparde

Company: Zip
Founded: 2020

Rujul Zaparde has fundamentally changed the way employees interact with procurement. He has helped to addressed the biggest pain point in the industry: the user experience. In 2026, Zip is the interface that sits atop the world’s most complex organisations, providing a single, beautiful front door for every spend request.

Rujul’s genius lies in his understanding that procurement only works if employees actually use it. By automating the routing of requests to legal, security and finance, he has turned a process that once took weeks into one that takes minutes.

Under his leadership, Zip has seen astronomical growth, proving that user adoption is the most critical metric for any technology deployment.

1. Leagh Turner

Company: Coupa
Founded: 2006

Leagh Turner stands at the pinnacle of ProcureTech as she leads Coupa into its most ambitious era yet. Utilising the collective intelligence of trillions of dollars in global spend to give every customer an unfair advantage. Leagh has been the primary architect of the move towards community-driven AI, where the software suggests the best suppliers and prices based on real-time data from across the Coupa network.

Her focus on margin resilience has become the industry standard, helping CEOs protect their bottom lines in an era of fluctuating costs and geopolitical instability.

Beyond the technology, Leagh is widely respected for her leadership on diversity and her ability to build high-performance cultures that attract the best talent in the sector. She is, without question, the most influential figure in procurement today.