OUR TEAM
DAVID GUSTIN
David is the founder and President of Global Business Intelligence ("GBI") since 1996 and the co-founder of Trade Financing Matters. For almost 20 years, David has been running a global research and advisory practice centered on helping banks, vendors, and corporates with trade services, trade credit and financial supply chain matters. His clients included financial institutions, financial technology vendors, transportation vendors and professional service firms. As Co-founder of Trade Financing Matters, part of the Spend Matters properties David supports all things working capital and is currently involved in projects around alternative lending models.
Prior to establishing Global Business Intelligence, David worked on various strategic and operational assignments in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia/New Zealand with Booz-Allen & Hamilton. He is a former VP of Security Pacific National Bank, and VP of Mellon Bank. David's formal education includes an Information Systems and Economics degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MBA from Purdue, and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
David is the founder and President of Global Business Intelligence ("GBI") since 1996 and the co-founder of Trade Financing Matters. For almost 20 years, David has been running a global research and advisory practice centered on helping banks, vendors, and corporates with trade services, trade credit and financial supply chain matters. His clients included financial institutions, financial technology vendors, transportation vendors and professional service firms. As Co-founder of Trade Financing Matters, part of the Spend Matters properties David supports all things working capital and is currently involved in projects around alternative lending models.
Prior to establishing Global Business Intelligence, David worked on various strategic and operational assignments in North America, Asia, Europe and Australia/New Zealand with Booz-Allen & Hamilton. He is a former VP of Security Pacific National Bank, and VP of Mellon Bank. David's formal education includes an Information Systems and Economics degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, an MBA from Purdue, and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
JASON BUSCH
Jason Busch is the founder and Managing Director of Azul Partners (a media, publishing and advisory firm with ownership and management interest in a range of ventures). He started Azul Partners in 2004 after leaving FreeMarkets. The firm now controls the largest and most influential set of B2B, procurement and supply chain media and research resources online, reaching millions of readers and members each year through diverse properties including: Spend Matters, Spend Matters Plus/PRO, Spend Matters UK/Europe, Spend Matters Netherlands, MetalMiner, Public Spend Forum, Trade Financing Matters and Healthcare Matters. He spends most of his time working on new ventures, helping put together strategic investments and buyouts for companies & private funds, and of course, continuing to research, write about and lecture on procurement, finance and supply chain topics that capture his interest. Prior to Azul Partners and FreeMarkets, Jason worked in consulting and merchant banking. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
Jason Busch is the founder and Managing Director of Azul Partners (a media, publishing and advisory firm with ownership and management interest in a range of ventures). He started Azul Partners in 2004 after leaving FreeMarkets. The firm now controls the largest and most influential set of B2B, procurement and supply chain media and research resources online, reaching millions of readers and members each year through diverse properties including: Spend Matters, Spend Matters Plus/PRO, Spend Matters UK/Europe, Spend Matters Netherlands, MetalMiner, Public Spend Forum, Trade Financing Matters and Healthcare Matters. He spends most of his time working on new ventures, helping put together strategic investments and buyouts for companies & private funds, and of course, continuing to research, write about and lecture on procurement, finance and supply chain topics that capture his interest. Prior to Azul Partners and FreeMarkets, Jason worked in consulting and merchant banking. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
PIERRE MITCHELL
Pierre leads Spend Matters procurement research activities and has broader solution development responsibilities for intellectual property creation and firm strategy as Managing Director of Azul Partners. This includes spearheading efforts to build new types of interactive and social communities of interest within the procurement profession including overseeing the evolution of spendmattersnet.com, Spend Matters PRO, MetalMiner, and other digital assets within Azul Partner’s umbrella. Pierre has 25 years of procurement and supply chain industry and consulting experience, and is a recognized procurement expert specializing in supply processes, practices, metrics, and enabling tools and services. He holds an engineering degree from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. In the early 2000's, Pierre was the first supply chain practitioner to become a procurement "industry analyst" as the VP of supply management research at AMR Research (now part of the Gartner Group) where he provided trusted counsel to procurement executives, business leadership, IT, and the solution providers who serve them. Most recently, he was the head of procurement research and adjunct business advisor at The Hackett Group.