Masoud Chitsaz
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Masoud is a Technical Thought Leader at Kinaxis. He is interested in applying analytics to improve business decisions and operations. He has over 20 years of experience in supply chain and operations management both on the industry and academia. Prior to immigrating to Canada, he co-founded a successful consulting company where he worked with a diverse range of public and private clients in retail, transportation, supply chain, steel production, auto manufacturing, infrastructure, and real estate.
Masoud is also a council member at the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS), and mentor for supply chain startups at Next AI. He has a master's degree in Transportation, and MBA from Sharif University of Technology, and PhD in Operations Management from HEC Montreal with the school's best thesis award. He has published papers in top-tier journals in operations management and supply chain.