Kinaxis Inc. appointed Andrew McDonald as Chief Product Officer. In this senior executive role, McDonald will leverage his extensive experience to scale product management, software design, research and development, quality, certification, and documentation with a focus on further accelerating its innovations for the market. McDonald has more than 20 years of experience growing software businesses by building innovative and creative product teams that produce solutions for customers. He comes to the company having held numerous leadership positions at technology companies including President of the Platforms Business Division at Alcatel-Lucent, where he led the $1 Billion per year business in software focusing on innovation and the move to the cloud. As Chief Product Officer of venture capital backed CENX, McDonald helped guide the cloud-based software company to a successful exit via acquisition by Ericsson.