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Kinaxis CEO Doug Colbeth
Douglas Colbeth became president and chief executive officer of Kinaxis™ in March 2003 As one of the true visionaries of the Internet explosion in the mid 1990 s he envisioned the opportunity to be a leader in delivering an on demand supply chain management service He then came across what he describes as a quot gang of supply chain geniuses quot in Canada who had already developed very powerful modeling and collaboration technology Doug understood what the Internet s influence on consumer behavior would be and how it would dramatically increase demand volatility The problem of effectively responding to consumer demand would be further exacerbated by the dramatic market shift of outsourced manufacturing operations Under Doug s leadership Kinaxis developed a world class offering which enables companies to build better supply chain plans and quickly respond to constant changes in demand supply and product driving breakthroughs in customer service and operations performance Today the Kinaxis on demand RapidResponse™ service empowers front line decision makers at brand name companies and contract manufacturers with multi enterprise visibility and collaborative analysis tools to effectively respond to change across an entire distributed supply chain Prior to Kinaxis Doug was chief executive officer of Spyglass Inc a leading provider of Internet software technologies Spyglass technologies are utilized inside millions of products including PCs televisions telephones and other hand held devices Most notably Spyglass technology is the foundation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser In June 1995 Spyglass became the first Internet software company to conduct a successful Initial Public Offering In March 2000 Doug negotiated its merger with OpenTV Inc at a value of $2 4 Billion Outside of his work with Kinaxis Doug and his wife Margaret are pioneer philanthropists in the area of juvenile brain diseases The Colbeth Clinic www colbethclinic org was established in 2000 and is operated
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