About Mulberri
Give every portfolio business the procurement advantage of a large enterprise.
Enterprise-grade leverage shouldn’t require an enterprise budget. That conviction is why Mulberri exists.
Why we exist
The gap we close.
Without a professional procurement function or enterprise-grade technology to manage spend intelligently, portfolio businesses pay on average 20% more for goods and services than their large-enterprise peers — a gap that quietly erodes more than two percentage points of EBITDA and compounds at every exit multiple.
Legacy solutions have failed to close this gap. Traditional GPOs and marketplace tools address, at best, 10–20% of indirect spend, leaving the highest-value categories — direct procurement, strategic services, and complex supplier relationships — entirely unaddressed.
The founder story
Built by the people who built enterprise procurement.
After two decades leading procurement transformation across PE and sovereign wealth fund portfolios, global consultancy practices at PwC and KPMG, and building Simfoni into a leading international spend management business, Stefan Dent founded Mulberri to solve this problem at scale. The thesis was clear: the technology and leverage enjoyed by large enterprises should be accessible to every portfolio company, from the first day of the hold period.
The Mulberri platform delivers exactly that. A self-funding solution — the savings it generates more than cover its cost — it combines AI-powered source-to-pay technology, embedded GPO purchasing content, and integrated sourcing to address total spend across every category. Integrated vendor management and payments deliver control, visibility, hard-dollar savings, and headcount efficiencies from the first quarter.
The result: every dollar of procurement saving creates more than eight dollars of enterprise value.
How we deliver
Services-as-Software: a new model for procurement transformation.
Mulberri delivers procurement transformation as a managed platform service — the power of AI combined with experienced sourcing professionals, for real outcomes: cost reduction, process automation and performance transparency, across both direct and indirect spend. Rapid deployment, measurable ROI, continuous improvement.
Where we operate
With operations across North America and Europe — London, New York and Málaga — Mulberri supports global portfolios with preferred suppliers, pre-negotiated content, regional supplier integration and local compliance, through one unified platform.
The team
Led by operators, backed by technology.
Former Chief Procurement Officers, strategic sourcing specialists and technologists with decades of enterprise procurement behind them.
Stefan Dent
CEO / Founder
Former CPO and consulting practice leader at PwC and KPMG; co-founder of Simfoni, a global SaaS spend automation business.
Doug Fullenkamp
Executive Advisor
Former executive sales leader at SpendHQ and Partner at Tenzing Consulting; 20+ years across PE, FMCG, retail and banking.
Sean Shtivelberg
VP North America
Hands-on sourcing leader across direct and indirect categories in PE-backed manufacturing and engineering portcos.
Paul Murrin
VP Mulberri GPO
Built a GPO for Walgreens-Boots; former practice leader at Proxima delivering post-M&A optimization.
Donnie Bachan
CTO
Strategic technology leadership and global engineering excellence, bringing AI-powered products to market at scale.
Nadia El Bouihi Lahim
Director of Operations
Oversees marketing, events, operations and resource management across Mulberri client accounts.
Johnathan Kahler
Sourcing Operations Leader
Sourcing and supply chain professional across indirect and direct spend in industrial and engineered-products environments.
Gareth Briggs
VP Europe
Client services and sourcing leader across IT, facilities, MRO and marketing; 20+ years in procurement transformation.
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