Carl Thompson is a self-confessed software geek having been working with business software systems for 34 years. He has worked in the Procure to Pay domain for the past 16 years, initially as an Implementation and Project Manager, then moved into systems consulting and presales in 2015. Carl has first-hand experience of the transformations that best in class procurement systems and finance automation can bring organisations and has worked with all sizes of organisation across all market verticals, both private and public sector. Carl is driven by the evangelical aim to get the message about The Power of Spend out to organisations, many of whom to his amazement are still running finances system from papers and ERP based ledgers, even in 2022.