José Alberto Duarte brings an extensive professional background to Kinaxis, with a strong focus on high growth and transformation, both as executive and non-executive director of global technology companies. Between 2013 and 2024 he was CEO of Infovista, Infinitas Learning and Unit4. Before that, and for approximately 20 years, José held multiple senior leadership roles at SAP (President Global Services and Corporate Officer, President EMEA+India and President Latin America). Currently, José serves as Chairperson at ProAlpha and is a non-executive director at Hallo. In his early professional stages he worked for Accenture (Andersen Consulting) and Unilever and was a non-executive director at SoftwareOne, Expereo, Bureau van Dijk, Gelato, FinancialForce.com and TechEdge.
José majored in Accounting in Management by ISCAL and has completed the Executive Leadership Development program of SAP at Insead. He has lived and worked for nearly 20 years in the US, France and The Netherlands, before relocating back to his home country, Portugal, in 2022.