# Kevin Samuelson

> Kevin Samuelson is the CEO of Infor, appointed in August 2019 after serving as CFO. A Washington-state native with an English literature degree from UC Berkeley, he began his career teaching in Sofia, later worked in equity research, and joined Infor in 2002. His career includes acquisition and integration work, operating roles outside Infor, and a return in 2016. His public leadership priorities include industry-specific software, accountable implementation and long customer relationships.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Infor
- **Organizations:** Infor, Backcountry.com, InsideSales.com, Robertson Stephens, Montgomery Securities, Bank of America Securities, American School in Sofia
- **Education:** Bachelor’s degree in English literature, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Helped build Infor’s acquisition portfolio; its 2011 CFO announcement credited him with more than 40 strategic acquisitions., The 2019 CEO appointment announcement credited Samuelson with helping grow Infor from $35 million to $3 billion in annual revenue., Named Infor CEO and board member in August 2019 after work in M&A, finance and operations.

## Career timeline

- **—** — Began his career teaching at the American School in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- **Before 2002** — Worked in equity research, including roles at Robertson Stephens and Montgomery Securities; earlier biographies also name Bank of America Securities.
- **2002** — Joined Infor at its inception and worked in mergers, acquisitions and finance.
- **2011** — Named Infor CFO; the appointment announcement credited him with more than 40 strategic acquisitions and over $5 billion raised in financing.
- **2013** — Left Infor; subsequent roles included COO at Backcountry.com and CFO at InsideSales.com.
- **2014** — A December InsideSales announcement listed Samuelson as CFO and identified his preceding COO role at Backcountry.com.
- **2016** — Returned to Infor.
- **2019** — Appointed Infor CEO on August 21 and joined its board; Charles Phillips became chairman.
- **2020** — Continued as CEO as Infor became a wholly owned, standalone Koch subsidiary.
- **2022** — Judged a Futures and Options high school business-pitch competition alongside CTO Soma Somasundaram.
- **2025** — Wrote about Infor Leap’s fixed-fee, fixed-timeline cloud migration offer and discussed industry-specific AI agents.
- **2026** — Continued promoting industry-specific AI, including an April product release and July NYSE Live interview.

## Achievements

- Helped build Infor’s acquisition portfolio; its 2011 CFO announcement credited him with more than 40 strategic acquisitions.
- The 2019 CEO appointment announcement credited Samuelson with helping grow Infor from $35 million to $3 billion in annual revenue.
- Named Infor CEO and board member in August 2019 after work in M&A, finance and operations.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Scheduled to speak with Soma Somasundaram and other Infor leaders at an October 27 digital event on enterprise AI and Velocity Suite.
- **2026-07** — Appeared on NYSE Live with Ashley Mastronardi to discuss AI adoption; the interview was published July 21.
- **2026-04** — Discussed the foundations of industry-specific AI in Infor’s April 22 announcement of Velocity Suite updates and limited availability of an enhanced Agentic Orchestrator.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-samuelson-b415673

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Last updated: 2026-10-11