Stephany Lapierre is the Founder and CEO of Tealbook, a supplier data solution to unify systems, empower people and optimize suppliers across industries and teams. Stephany is a highly coveted supply chain thought leader and one of the most influential minds in emerging data technologies.

She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain and Tealbook has been named a Top 50 company to watch by Spend Matters and won the Cool Vendor Award by Gartner. Prior to Tealbook, Stephany spent 10 years building a successful strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm focusing on large-scale sourcing optimization projects.

It is Stephany’s mission to deliver a ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ to an ever-growing eProcurement space. Currently, Tealbook is the only Big Data company that provides a self-enriching and self-maintaining mechanism to improve enterprise supplier data.

‘Entrepreneurship is about having ideas that you can’t shake.”

In this week’s episode of the #StartupPodcast, sponsored by Mastercard and Scotiabank, Stephany Lapierre shares how TealBook works (and why it works), and why focusing on operation and execution excellence matters for a company’s confidence and growth.

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