Lora Cecere: Lora Cecere is the founder of the research firm Supply Chain Insights. She is co-author of the new books Bricks Matter and Metrics that Matter. She is also the author of the enterprise software blog Supply Chain Shaman. Lora has more than 30 years of diverse supply chain experience, and spent 9 years as an industry analyst with Gartner Group, AMR Research, and Altimeter Group. Prior to becoming a supply chain analyst she spent 15 years as a leader in the building of supply chain software at Manugistics and Descartes Systems Group, and several years as a supply chain practitioner at Procter & Gamble, Kraft/General Foods, Clorox, and Dreyers Grand Ice Cream (now a division of Nestle).

Razat Gaurav: 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.