Chris Elmore is AvidXchange’s Senior Sales Performance Director and has been with the company since its early beginnings in 2000. He leads a weekly class for AvidXchange interns and is a professor at UNC Charlotte and Queens University of Charlotte, teaching Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Chris also serves on the startup boards of 4 Charlotte companies and advises 3 more as well. Named a “Startup Hero” by North Carolina Business Magazine, he shares his knowledge and expertise of automation, innovation, successful startups, and technology through speaking engagements around the country.

About Us: AvidXchange, Inc. believes there’s a better way for businesses to process invoices and make payments, eliminating the endless piles of paper so many AP departments find themselves buried in. That’s why they set out from Charlotte, North Carolina in the year 2000 with a simple mission in mind: Transform the way companies pay their bills. AvidXchange has grown quite a bit since then, continuously expanding their team, footprint and capabilities to deliver an industry-leading AP automation solution that helps more than 5,500 North American companies cut costs, improve visibility and increase efficiencies.