Procurement Solutions

Rana Karimi leads the Solutions group at ProcureAbility, where she focuses on co-creating solutions tailored to address her clients’ sourcing and procurement needs. Rana leverages her experience as a consultant to craft high-impact partnerships with her clients. Her expertise lies in building strategic sourcing programs, transformational initiatives, and buy desk engagements.

Outside her client work, Rana co-leads Fusion, ProcureAbility’s multicultural employee resource group, and is a proponent of DEI strategy and advancement in the firm. Prior to joining ProcureAbility, Rana worked in the sourcing strategy practice at Accenture, where she delivered large-scale procurement and sourcing transformation programs. Before shifting to a career in procurement services, she was a manufacturing engineer and worked in the oil and gas and heavy industrial sectors. She earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

In her free time, Rana enthusiastically volunteers in her community. She is a member of the Dallas Society of Women Engineers, overseeing STEM outreach for girls and professional development for women in technical careers. Rana is also a music enthusiast and plays the French horn in Dallas’s Oak Lawn Community Band and other local ensembles.

Shandon’s career started at a best-practices benchmarking and advisory firm, CEB (now Gartner), where he moved through the analyst ranks to become an Associate Director in their Legal and Compliance team in under 7 years. Shandon’s procurement career began with Insight Sourcing Group (now Accenture) and SpendHQ, where he owned sales enablement and the RFP response process for spend analytics, assessments, strategic sourcing, procurement transformation, and their GPO practices. Shandon’s work covered CPG, Retail, Manufacturing, Food, Financial Services, Energy, and Private Equity, including bids for 40 of the top PE firms by assets managed.

Following his time at ISG and SpendHQ, Shandon served procurement technology and managed services organizations such as Synertrade, EC Sourcing Group, and Simfoni, where he owned sales enablement across all service lines. At Simfoni, Shandon oversaw information security, compliance, and data governance in addition to bid responses. Shandon served as the organization’s Data Protection Officer and managed the annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 audit and reporting process. Shandon oversaw Simfoni’s IT organization and led solution design in both domestic and international geographies. Most recently, Shandon served as Chief Procurement Officer at the physical and cloud security integrator Bluebird Equity, where he won public sector bids in multiple states. Shandon is currently a Solutions Manager, focused on sales enablement across all solutions and industries served by ProcureAbility.

Shandon graduated from UVA with a degree in economics. He and his wife love seeing live music of all genres across the US and spending time with their dogs, Mavis and Holden.

Hyeju Lee is a Solutions Manager with 8 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, operations, and supply chain. She is recognized as a partner who collaborates and empowers clients to reach new heights on a scale and timeline that works best for them. 

In her advisory and practitioner experience, Hyeju has led and supported safety initiatives, strategic sourcing events, contract negotiations, and spend and opportunity assessments in industries such as utilities, CPG, aerospace, and defense. 

Hyeju holds a B.S. in Supply Chain and Information Systems from Penn State. She lives in the Greater Tampa Bay area and enjoys traveling, trying new eateries, supporting DE&I efforts, and exercising her green thumb.