The Transformative Power of Spend Optimization

Expense, invoice, and travel management spend are often tracked in silos - limiting insight, risking fraud, and increasing overall costs. However, when these key areas are considered together, organizations can truly achieve frictionless finance. Join Emburse as we discuss how using automation at scale, digital transformation, and data visibility can give your team a holistic view of corporate spend.

Join us to learn how optimizing your spend can:

• Balance your budgets to inform investments
• Reduce your overall operating costs
• Improve your spend visibility to make data-backed decisions
• Unify your data sources to distill information quickly and easily

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation. A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Barbara Doane
Vice President, Product Marketing, Emburse

Barbara Doane is Vice President, Product Marketing for Emburse, a global leader in expense management and AP automation with a mission to humanize work. She joined Emburse in 2018 and is responsible for the unique value proposition and go-to-market strategy. Barbara designed the Emburse Spend Optimization Model to help organizations manage all types of spend effectively.

Barbara has dedicated over 25 years helping organizations create operational efficiencies through technology. She began her career in higher education serving the University of New Hampshire and then George Mason University implementing and supporting finance systems. She then spent more than eight years at Ellucian, the worldwide leader of software and services designed for higher education, setting strategy for the financial management suite of solutions.

Barbara holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master’s degree in public administration. Barbara lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three rescue animals.