About Us

SpendSphere.ai was born in 2020 out of Acquire Insights, a Commercial Advisory firm supporting large-scale procurement that has been operating since 2015. Through their work supporting procurement teams across large Australian organisations, founders Simon Thompson and Greer Long saw the need for a better solution to spend analytics.

SpendSphere.ai was developed in direct response to clients desire to have faster, cheaper and more agile alternatives to manual analysis or building of custom datacubes and analytics in-house.

Prior to Acquire, Simon and Greer worked in engineering, top-tier consulting and Private equity within Australia and around the globe. This experience gives them a unique and broad commercial context to develop products and services that meet the needs of the modern analyst and procurement teams.
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Spend%20Sphere%20|%20Australian%20Spend%20AnalyticsSimon Thompson

Founder & Lead Developer

Over the past 18 years, Simon has been working within Australian procurement functions and also advising them via his role within Acquire Insights.

Based out of his consultancy work and his love for data analytics (maybe from his prior job as a Mech & Space Engineer) he developed a one stop approach to Spend Analysis for a client which has now become SpendSphere.ai

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Head of Customer Success

Over the past 17 years, Neil has been working within procurement and supply chain functions assisting them to leverage their data to find cost savings and efficiency improvements.

Neil supports our customers to get the most out of their Spend Analytics solution.

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Spend%20Sphere%20|%20Australian%20Spend%20AnalyticsGreer Long

Head of Strategy

20 years ago, Greer began here career with Bain Consulting before joining a private equity firm and then Infosys Portland.

Greer is also the co-founder of Acquire Insights, a commercial advisory firm that specialises in large-scale procurement initiatives and for the past 10 years been critical to the development of their software and how it best supports our customers.