Who are Ramp's decision-makers?

Ramp was co-founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman (CEO) and Karim Atiyeh (CTO). The two had previously built Paribus, a consumer app that automatically claimed refunds when prices dropped, which they sold to Capital One in 2016.

That savings-first background is the origin of Ramp's defining contrarian stance: unlike most spend tools that earn more when customers spend more, Ramp markets itself on helping customers spend less, and ties its product roadmap to measurable savings. Glyman owns company and product direction and is the public face of the company; Atiyeh leads engineering and the technical architecture behind Ramp's cards, automation, and AI features.

For a finance, RevOps, or GTM-tooling sale, the buying committee almost never starts with the founders. It centers on the office of the CFO and the operating leaders beneath it — finance operations, revenue operations, IT, and security — who own the budgets and run the evaluation.

The founders and senior executives set strategy and approve large or strategic purchases, but day-to-day vendor decisions sit with functional owners. As Ramp scales past roughly 2,000 employees, those functions are increasingly specialized, so the practical move is to identify the specific team your product serves and find its leader, rather than aiming at 'Ramp' or its founders in the abstract.

Ramp has grown from a single corporate-card product into a broad office-of-the-CFO platform — cards, bill pay, procurement, travel, and treasury — and its org has specialized to match, with distinct product, engineering, finance, sales, and operations functions. With a maturing investor base that now includes sovereign and pension capital, expect a more formal, process-driven procurement and security posture than at an earlier-stage startup: security reviews, vendor risk assessments, and multi-stakeholder sign-off. Mapping that structure — who owns the budget, who runs security, who signs — is the difference between a stalled deal and a fast one.