CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 January 2012
Company News
Anark Promotes Chris Garcia to Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Operations and Business Development
Anark Corporation, a leading provider of automated 3D CAD transformation and visualization solutions, announced the promotion of Chris Garcia to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Operations and Business Development.
In his new position, Mr. Garcia will further leverage his knowledge of Anark's products and solutions, along with his substantial experience within the CAD and PLM industry, to manage and grow the company's direct and channel sales activities, while continuing to form new strategic alliances and channel partnerships that are aligned with Anark's products, target customers, and overall company mission to enable their customers to leverage their 3D Design and Manufacturing data assets into easy to use and reuse Model Based Enterprise applications.
Mr. Garcia initially joined Anark in January of 2009 as Senior Vice President of Business Development, and is a distinguished executive from the mechanical design and manufacturing software industry, where he has extensive experience in global operations management, software product development, and new business development. During his three years as a member of Anark's executive team, he has successfully formed multiple high-impact strategic and channel partnerships, has been on the forefront of numerous key customer engagements, and has had a strong impact on the company's overall commercialization and growth strategy.
Prior to joining Anark, Mr. Garcia was Vice President of Research and Development at Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corporation, a position he held for 5 years. At SolidWorks, he led a staff of over 300 engineers located in offices spread over 6 countries, focusing on the research, development and release of the world class SolidWorks product offerings. In addition, Mr. Garcia spent much of his time leading the definition and optimization of the global software development processes and infrastructure utilized at SolidWorks today.
Prior to his tenure at SolidWorks, Mr. Garcia founded Xygent, a division of global manufacturing automation software provider Brown & Sharpe Inc. He has also held senior management roles at Tecnomatix Technologies Inc (the pioneers in the PLM industry), and was the founder of their Valisys software line of products (which are both now a strategic part of Siemens Teamcenter Suite of PLM Products). Mr. Garcia earned a master's degree in business administration at Santa Clara University, a bachelor's degree in computer science and general engineering from San Jose State University, and holds an accreditation from the MIT Sloan Executive Education program.
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