As chief operating officer, John is responsible for five key functional areas including Marketing, Sales, Strategic Partners, Development, and Service Operations.

Having started as a key contributor to the architecture and development of Kinaxis supply chain management solutions in early 1994, he soon went on to hold senior management roles in development, professional services, business consulting, and customer support. In 2009, John’s position was further expanded to include the company’s corporate and product marketing functions and in February 2011, both sales and the strategic partners program were added to his role with his appointment to COO.

Before joining Kinaxis, John held senior software architect positions in research and development at Enterprise Planning Systems, FastMAN Software Systems, Inc (also known as Promira before being purchased by Manugistics), and Monenco Agra.

John earned a Bachelor of Computer Science, from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, with a strong focus on software architecture and UI Design.

Blog posts by John

• Is collaboration the next supply chain optimizer? June 17th, 2010
• In-memory…In-style June 2nd, 2010
• And that’s a wrap! May 4th, 2010
• Guess who won BtoB Magazine’s 2010 Social Media award alongside Cisco? April 20th, 2010
• Will you point out the elephant in the room? April 13th, 2010
• BILK Moore makes “suites” sour! Isn’t acknowledgment of the problem the first step? April 6th, 2010
• Following merger, ERP executives deny wrong doing April 1st, 2010
• 1400-member Supply Chain Expert Community expands and improves February 8th, 2010
• What value does responsiveness offer to the organization? February 1st, 2010
• Visions of dinosaurs danced in my head… December 2nd, 2009