Yooz powers Lean Financial
Operations™ for fitter, happier,
more innovative financial teams
Yooz provides the smartest AI-powered AP automation solution for the most ambitious companies on the planet.
It powers a unique, lean model of financial operations that delivers end-to-end transparency over all your processes. This helps eliminate waste, realize total control, and achieve unmatched savings, speed, and security for more than 7,000 customers and 600,000 users worldwide – and all with affordable zero-risk subscriptions.
Yooz’s unique solution leverages industry-leading proprietary AI and RPA technologies to deliver unmatched AP automation, fraud protection, traceability, and end-to-end customizable features.
It integrates seamlessly with more than 250 financial systems, exceeding any other solution on the market.
Our values
We’re a people’s company
We are an inclusive, diverse and multicultural organization that creates an encouraging, respectful and uplifting community. We are fearless innovators who like to work together, have fun together, and challenge ourselves to provide the best in finance technology solutions.
We work with integrity
Our team is honest, open-minded and personable. We strive to do the right thing. We communicate openly. We have a positive attitude.
We strive for excellence
We pursue excellence in everything we do. We delegate responsibilities. We provide the best quality through hard work, determination and innovation.
We’re driven by a shared customer-centric ambition
We share a common goal. We are efficient, competitive and accountable. We are committed to satisfying each client. We value ambition and adaptability.
We’re at the forefront of R&D and innovation
Being on top of global technological leadership is how Yooz started, and how we continue to find success. Yooz was founded on 35 years of technology expertise focused on document processing automation.
Yooz has provided the scientific community with more than 100 publications, detailing crucial progress in Artificial Intelligence and in Machine/Deep Learning, leading on a global conversation. Our technology expertise is reflected by our various industry achievements, including being named “10 Best Cloud Solution Provider” by Industry Era, “Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS)” by THINKstrategies, and “Top 10 Accounting Solution Provider” by CFO Tech Outlook.
The Yooz story: Where we started and where we’re headed, from AP automation to lean financial operations™
The success of Yooz relies on an incredible, strong-willed community, formed by its 500+ employees and more than 600,000 users across 50+ countries. Based in France and the United States, the company has been growing at an average rate of 40%+ per year.
From a visionary project to a key player in financial operations, Yooz is the result of an entrepreneurial adventure relying on intuition, team spirit, and audacity.
Yooz’s story began in 2010 when a group of innovators placed a bet on SaaS and launched an AP automation solution aiming at the SME market, which until then had been left out of the automation technologies.
Significant investments were then made to accelerate its growth and expand internationally. Yooz launched its solution in the United States, successfully penetrating a market that was looking for innovative solutions to improve the productivity, reliability and security of invoice processing. The Yooz American dream became a reality.
Visionary by nature, Yooz has always been careful to prepare for the future. In 2020, it launched a new strategic plan, “Rising from the Cloud”, based on a revolutionary product “Yooz Rising”, which now integrates a direct payment feature. It was a new achievement that propelled Yooz into the world of fintechs.
Since the end of 2021, Yooz has been a pure SaaS player with more than 7,000 customers across 50+ countries. Already successful in the United States, Yooz has also successfully penetrated the Spanish and UK markets.
After leading Yooz’s operations in the United States, Laurent Charpentier took over as global CEO of Yooz at the beginning of 2022 to accelerate the company’s international expansion while pursuing the innovative strategy that has made Yooz so successful.
Executive Leadership Team
Laurent Charpentier (CEO)
Laurent graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and INSA Lyon. He worked as Solution Lead Architect and Lead Consultant for Accenture, and Business Analyst at Dell Inc. Since 2016, he has been Yooz NORAM COO and CIO and became Yooz CEO in 2022.
John Gronen (CFO)
John, a seasoned executive with dual degrees in Finance and Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas, brings over 25 years of experience in Finance, Operations, Sales, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Formerly CFO at Sightline Payments and VPay, he now leads financial strategies at Yooz as global Chief Financial Officer.
Magali Michel (COO)
Magali graduated from Montpellier Business School and joined ITESOFT in 1989. She successively took over the Sales department, the France Marketing department and finally the Global Marketing Direction. As Yooz COO since 2010, she leads EMEA.
Jean-Marc Pedreno (CTO)
Jean-Marc graduated from SUPELEC Engineer, AI option and joined ITESOFT in 1988. He manages R&D, product development, strategic projects, and oversees Quality Control and Innovation, in France and the UK. Since 2012, he has been the head of Yooz technical activities
Kirsten Porter (CRO, NORAM)
Kirsten holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelors degrees in both Law and Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Sydney, Australia. For the past 20 years, she has driven growth and transformation at Bain & Company, LexisNexis, Vista Equity Partners, and Rubicon Technology Partners, specializing in scaling high-growth software and data companies. She joined Yooz in 2025 as Chief Revenue Officer, North America where she leads Yooz’s transformational initiatives focused on accelerating growth and operational excellence.
Jamal Elassri (CRO, EMEA)
A graduate of the University of Montpellier in computer science and in sales and business, Jamal worked at Würth France and Dell. He joined Yooz as a Sales Consultant in 2014 and since 2021 serves as the Chief Sales Officer, EMEA, and became the Chief Revenue Officer, EMEA in 2025.
