Procurement intelligence is the type of service that Eric Cunningham’s company provides, but to him it is a proving ground for resilient competitors and collaborative achievers.
“There’s a lot of synergies between sport and business,” said Cunningham, ’97, a Slippery Rock University graduate who earned his degree in sport management before entering the field of technology sales. “We don’t call it going to work every day. This is our sport. I treat this like I’m the general manager or the head coach and we all know what we have to do to prepare every day, to get better every day, to win every day. That’s the kind of culture that we have here.”
Cunningham is the CEO and founder of Green Cabbage, which serves more than 2,600 organizations all over the world using agentic AI to accelerate and facilitate better deal outcomes, strengthen supplier negotiations and help clients make smarter procurement decisions.
This article was featured in the 2026 Spring/Summer edition of the ROCK magazine.
