Built by the people who ran procurement.
Zavo is the procurement brain, covering intake and orchestration through contracts, supplier performance, and spend. We built the thing we spent our careers wishing existed.
This started on the procurement floor
Not in a product meeting. On the floor, mid-quarter, with a supplier on hold and a number that would not add up.
We ran procurement inside some of the world's largest companies, then spent years optimizing it as consultants. It worked. A year later the same leaks were back, because the judgment lived in the room with us and left when we did.
Existing procurement solutions in the market fell short. Client after client said the same: every system expected procurement to change to suit the tool. Change is hard, so instead of adopting them, teams would simply bypass them.
So we set out to build a solution that fits into your ecosystem. Everything technology can carry, it carries. Everything that needs judgment stays with the people who have it.
That's how Zavo was born. An AI-native platform carrying our judgment, from intake to pay, that fits how your team already works. A procurement brain built from practitioner experience and designed to stay.
Human-led. Built for partnership, not replacement.
Why we built Zavo
“I spent years watching procurement teams search for answers that already existed across systems. The challenge was never a lack of information. It was a lack of context.
We built Zavo to solve that problem. By connecting the knowledge, commitments and intelligence already present across the business, we’re creating the Procurement Brain: an AI-native procurement platform that helps teams understand what matters, what is coming and where to act next.
Our vision is simple: to give procurement leaders the context and confidence to make better decisions, faster.”
Ian Cotter
Co-founder, Zavo
The people who built it
Zavo’s founders are its practitioner bench. The same people who ran procurement inside large enterprises designed how Zavo reasons. They are still in the room when it goes live somewhere new. You are not handed off from the people who sold it to the people who know how it works.
Ian helps Private Equity and SaaS executives unlock measurable value by transforming procurement and deploying agentic AI. With two decades of leadership across PayPal, Citibank, Lightspeed, Okta, MUFG, and KKR, he has designed scalable operating models that drive sustainable impact. Before founding Zavo, Ian held leadership roles at GEP Consulting in Chicago and Accenture in London.
Ian Cotter
Co-founder
With more than 25 years of experience, Biju Mohan is recognized for shaping procurement and supply chain into strategic enablers of enterprise growth. He has guided Life Sciences and Pharma leaders through enterprise-wide transformations, from reimagining supplier performance to unlocking new operating efficiencies. At Zavo, Biju champions innovation, helping clients harness digital and AI-driven models that elevate procurement from a cost center to a competitive advantage.
Biju Mohan
Co-founder
Tunir Chatterjee brings over 25 years of consulting and technology leadership, advising executives across chemicals, CPG, financial services, and manufacturing. Known for driving EBITDA growth through transformation, he combines deep industry expertise with a vision for digital and AI-enabled procurement. At Zavo, Tunir partners with senior leaders to reframe procurement as a driver of resilience and value creation, building models that align cost efficiency with long-term enterprise impact.
Tunir Chatterjee
Co-founder
Ankit Nayyar brings over a decade of experience in procurement transformation with a focus on the Banking and Financial Services industry. He has advised mid-market and enterprise clients on strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and operating model design. He specializes in comprehensive transformations built on Zavo's intake-to-pay platform, delivering accelerated time to value and a procurement function whose gains compound year over year.
Ankit Nayyar
Vice President
The bits between the work
We argue about procurement in restaurants, in airports, and over whiteboards nobody cleans. Some of it is even useful.
Where you’ll find us
We spend a lot of time in rooms full of procurement people. Some of it on stage.
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