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Matt Tichon

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Executive Director, Applied AI - Decision Intelligence at Kinaxis
📍 Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area, United States

Matt Tichon is the Executive Director of Applied AI at Kinaxis, leveraging extensive experience from leadership roles at AWS, Coupa, and Oracle. He specializes in supply chain transformation, AI applications, and go-to-market strategy. Colleagues describe him as genuine, professional, and passionate, with a talent for connecting complex technical concepts to customer needs.

Outside of his technology career, Matt is a high-performance driving instructor. He is a certified national instructor for the Porsche Club of America and uses his passion for motorsports to inform his perspective on achieving work-life balance.

He is a highly sought-after public speaker and an accomplished author on supply chain topics.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Executive Director, Applied AI - Decision Intelligence
Job Level
Senior
Location
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area, United States
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Agentic AI
His current role focuses on Applied AI and Decision Intelligence, and he recently spoke on an expert panel about using Agentic AI to boost planner productivity.
Supply Chain Strategy
A career-long thought leader in supply chain, he focuses on digital twins, optimization, and building resilient, interconnected solutions for global companies.
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Career

Work history

12-2025
Executive Director, Applied AI - Decision Intelligence
Kinaxis
11-2021 - 11-2025
Principal Business Development/Go-to-Market: AWS Supply Chain
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2-2019 - 11-2021
Vice President, Industry Strategy - Supply Chain Design & Planning Applications
Coupa Software (LLamasoft)
6-2018 - 2-2019
Application Sales Manager
Oracle
5-2014 - 6-2018
Principal Sales Consultant & Regional Lead
Oracle
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Education
8-2019 - 10-2019
Machine Learning Implementation in Business
MIT Sloan School of Management
1993 - 1998
BSBA
Central Michigan University
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