About Us

Our team

Founders

Tim Herrod headshot
Tim Herrod, FCPA, FCA

A passionate leader in strategic transformation, InTension co-founder Tim Herrod has spearheaded game-changing shifts for multiple complex global companies in Procurement, Treasury, and Investor Relations.

Under Tim's guidance, businesses have saved nearly $1B in operating costs while enhancing customer value, strengthening operational resilience, optimizing supplier performance, fueling asset and margin growth, driving profitability, and advancing innovative digital solutions.

Renowned for his exceptional communication and consensus-building skills, Tim excels in developing transformative strategies, driving value creation, building world-class teams, optimizing organizational design, integrating ESG, guiding high-quality decision-making, and leading complex negotiations. His unwavering commitment to customer-centricity, sustainability and continuous improvement defines his approach to every challenge.

Stephany headshot
Stephany Lapierre

A highly coveted supply chain thought leader and visionary, Stephany has been recognized as among the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain. Her expertise spans strategic sourcing and procurement consulting, notably in life sciences.

She founded and is CEO of TealBook, a tech company advancing AI and machine learning to create a Supplier Data Platform (SDP) that centralizes supplier data and automates its collection, enrichment, and distribution to enhance data governance and increase ROI in procurement processes and digital investments. While she continues to work full time for TealBook, her 16-year-old venture, Matchbook, is rolling into InTension. Matchbook has helped hundreds of companies accelerate their go-to-market strategies, fortify their supply chains, and optimize their procurement functions.

Stephany's vision is to empower businesses with robust data solutions, fueling their growth and resilience.

team

Leah Marciante-Mehta
Senior Advisor
Erin Harrigan
Senior Advisor

advisory partners

Procurement analytics for data-driven enterprises

The most trusted source for Supplier Data

Canadian managed procurement services provider

Business & technology consulting experience