Anders Lillevik is the CEO and founder of Focal Point, a company providing an end-to-end enterprise procurement orchestration platform. With more than 20 years’ experience as a chief procurement officer, Anders has helped organizations such as Fannie Mae, QBE Insurance and Webster Bank optimize their procurement operations. In these roles, he has managed teams of 120+ employees, including $8 billion annual spending and $5 million in annual procurement software expenditures.
As an industry veteran, Anders had a vision for procurement departments to shift from pure cost centers to strategic contributors to the top and bottom line. In 2020, he set this vision in motion and founded Focal Point to address the unmet need for a complete solution that connects the tools for every aspect of procurement orchestration across siloed data and processes. Focal Point empowers chief procurement officers to move up the digital maturity curve across the entire procurement process.
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