Executive leadership

Razat joined Kinaxis in January 2026 as Chief Executive Officer, where he sets the company’s vision and drives its global strategy, innovation, and long-term value creation. He is also on the Board of Directors at Kinaxis. 

Razat has over 25 years of experience in the enterprise software and supply chain solution space, with a proven track record of driving innovation-based growth and scaling technology businesses. 

Before joining Kinaxis, Razat was CEO at Planview and LLamasoft. Prior to that, he held leadership positions at Blue Yonder and i2 Technologies. 

Razat served on the Boards of Sparta Systems and LLamasoft, and is currently a Board member at Planview and SPS Commerce, a publicly traded SaaS company. 

Razat was recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020. He has also been featured as one of the leading SaaS CEOs by The Software Report. He is engaged in various philanthropic and policy initiatives related to medical research, STEM education across minorities, and efforts to reduce carbon emissions. 

Razat graduated with honors in Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
 

Herb Yeh serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Kinaxis, leading the global finance organization and corporate strategy operations at Kinaxis, including Finance, Accounting and Investor Relations functions, Corporate Strategy, and Corporate Development. He partners closely with the executive leadership team and Board of Directors to drive disciplined execution, support the company’s global growth strategy, and create long-term shareholder value. 

Mr. Yeh brings more than 25 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience advising leading technology companies on capital allocation, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic growth decisions. Throughout his career, he has worked with enterprise software companies at every stage of growth, helping management teams and boards navigate complex strategic and financial decisions to accelerate growth and create long-term value.

Prior to joining Kinaxis, Mr. Yeh was a Senior Managing Director at Evercore, where he helped lead the firm's Technology Strategic Advisory practice, with a focus on software. In that role, he advised senior management teams, boards of directors, and private equity investors on strategic transactions, capital structure, and long-term corporate strategy. 

Previously, Mr. Yeh served as Global Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking and Vice Chairman of Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory at Citi, where he led global client engagement across the technology sector. Over the course of his career, he has advised many of the world's leading technology companies and investors, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Workday, Dell Technologies, IBM, Intel, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, DocuSign, Confluent, Dynatrace, Qualtrics, Proofpoint, Thoma Bravo, Vista Equity Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Permira, TPG, and Evergreen Coast Capital, among many others. 

Through his work, Mr. Yeh has developed deep expertise in the operating and financial models of enterprise software businesses, including the capital allocation decisions required to scale recurring revenue companies. He also brings significant insight into the evolving role of data and artificial intelligence in shaping enterprise software and has followed Kinaxis and the broader supply chain technology sector closely for more than a decade. 

Earlier in his career, Mr. Yeh was a Managing Director in the Technology Investment Banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and began his career practicing corporate and securities law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. 

Mr. Yeh earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mark is a proven supply chain software executive who has scaled global commercial operations to well beyond a billion dollars in annual revenue, delivered double-digit SaaS increases within existing and new customers, and enabled hyper-growth through expanding partner ecosystems. He has more than two decades of executive and sales leadership experience in supply chain, including leading the commercial operations for Coupa and Blue Yonder, where he also held the role of interim CEO.

In his new role, Mark will manage Kinaxis sales teams in North America, EMEA and APAC, the global go-to-market & strategic operations team, global customer care and business consulting.

As Chief Operating Officer, Megan has responsibility over the company’s cloud services operations, corporate IT, corporate strategy, HR and global real estate. In this new role, Paterson will create centers of excellence that empower the company to operate with agility and alignment as it continues to expand its footprint globally. 

Before joining Kinaxis, Megan worked at EMS Technologies/Honeywell, Sedona Networks, and Trillium Photonics. Megan graduated with a BA, Psychology from Carleton University.

Megan lives in a small town just outside of Ottawa, and is slowly getting used to country living with all the woodland creatures. The things she cannot live without include her Kindle, tennis, fast cars, and her dog Cassidy. She spends her time outside of work volunteering for women’s shelters, advocating for survivors of domestic violence, and angel investing.

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As chief product officer, Andrew oversees the company’s engineering, development and product management teams, as well as the company’s continued investment in AI and machine learning, where we have more than 50 issued and pending patents.

Andrew joined Kinaxis in June 2012 after working for Alcatel-Lucent, where he managed the Customer Premise Equipment product line for North America. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Kristin Russel is Chief Marketing Officer at Kinaxis, where she leads the company’s global marketing organization, overseeing marketing strategy, corporate and market positioning, digital and brand marketing, communications, and go-to-market initiatives. She is responsible for advancing the Kinaxis brand, strengthening customer and partner engagement, and supporting the company’s continued global growth. 

A seasoned marketing executive and recognized industry leader, Russel brings extensive experience scaling technology companies, building high-impact brands, and driving growth through innovative marketing strategies. Prior to joining Kinaxis, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at symplr, where she led the development and execution of the company’s comprehensive marketing strategy across branding, digital and product marketing, public relations, community outreach programs, and channel partnerships. 

Before symplr, Russel led marketing at Quest Analytics and Carrot Inc., and held senior marketing leadership roles at Humana, Cerner, and Omnicell. She is also a successful entrepreneur, having founded the fintech company Anachron, which was later acquired by ING Bank. 

Russel has been recognized as one of PR Daily’s Top Women in Marketing and was named to the 2026 B2B CMO 100, honoring marketing leaders shaping the future of B2B go-to-market strategy. 

She is also a two-time Stevie Award winner and a Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree from McMaster University, an MBA from École Supérieure de Commerce in France, and a Master of Public Administration degree from Carleton University.

As Chief Customer Success Officer, Mike leads with a global perspective and directs worldwide customer support, global customer success, and knowledge management functions with a focus on support demand reduction and exemplary client satisfaction.

Prior to joining Kinaxis in 2017, Mike helped build global support and services teams around the world for Quest Software, Dell Software, SkillSoft (formerly SmartForce), and RBC Dominion Securities. With over 20 years of corporate leadership experience, Mike has an established track record of exceeding enterprise-wide service levels with a focus on customer support demand reduction and high customer satisfaction. Mike has earned multiple performance awards for delivering tangible outcomes, helped manage a customer support website that ranked in the top 10 in the industry and is a recognized leader in customer service playing many support roles throughout his career.

Mike lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia and is married with one child, a 12-year-old gaming enthusiast and YouTube legend (in his own mind!). You can typically find Mike among nature…either looking for his lost golf balls or chasing bass in our many lakes.

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As Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Jamie is responsible for overseeing all legal matters and functions at Kinaxis in addition to overseeing the company’s security, risk, and compliance team.

Jamie brings more than 15 years of legal experience to Kinaxis, primarily focused on the technology sector. Prior to joining Kinaxis in 2015, Jamie practiced law at two international law firms (Dentons and Gowlings) and was in-house legal counsel (Mergers and Acquisitions) at Blackberry.

Jamie holds Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Science (Biology/Biotechnology) degrees from the University of Ottawa.

Jamie lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife and 4 kids. When he is not busy providing a taxi service for his children, he enjoys playing golf, hockey and tennis, and cheering for the Ottawa Senators.