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David Long, President, INCOSE

A committed member of the worldwide systems community, David Long is the 2014/2015 President of INCOSE. David has served INCOSE since 1997 including a term as the Washington Metropolitan Area chapter president and international roles including Member Board Chair, Director for Communications, and Director for Strategy. He is a frequent presenter at industry events worldwide delivering keynotes and tutorials spanning introductory systems engineering, the advanced application of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), and the future of systems engineering. In 2006, David received the prestigious INCOSE Founders Award in recognition of his many contributions to the organization.

For over twenty...

Ravi S. Desai, Director, CAE & CAD Product Engineering, American Axle & Manufacturing

Ravi S. Desai is the Director for CAE & CAD Product Engineering at American Axle & Manufacturing. He is based in the AAM World Headquarters Detroit office. He is responsible for the implementation and the execution of analysis and design processes in product engineering. He is leading the corporate efforts to integrate new simulation technology in the area of manufacturing and assembly.

Previous to this assignment, Ravi worked at General Motors in various capacities, including CAE Engineer, NVH Technical Lead Engineer, Test & Development Engineer, Planning Manager, and Vehicle...

Greg Gorman, Director, Rational Systems Product Management Product Management & Design, IBM Rational

At IBM Greg Gorman leads both the strategy and development of Rational's product development platform, which is designed to address the needs of Systems Engineers and Embedded Software Developers based on industry best practices and leading products Rational DOORS, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager. Greg joined IBM through the Telelogic acquisition in 2008, where he served in several positions ranging from field engineer to sales executive to Vice President of Product Management over his 25 year history. Prior to joining Telelogic, Greg was with...

Jon Quigley, Director of Multiphysics, Altair Engineering

Jon Quigley is the director of multiphysics at Altair. Prior to this role, he was responsible for the program direction of HyperWorks® products that apply to modeling complex systems, including MotionView®, MotionSolve®, HyperStudy®, and ScriptView™. His over 25 years of experience in the computer-aided engineering software industry includes time spent at Ford developing custom applications in the vehicle dynamics domain.Jon rejoined Altair in 2000 as the program manager for MotionView, going on to become director of systems modeling. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering and a Master of Science in Mechanical...

Dan Turk, Principal Systems Engineer, Honda R&D North America

Dan Turk is a Principal Systems Engineer at Honda R&D North America. During his 20 year career at Honda Dan has held a variety of positions including; design engineer for the Power Equipment Division and systems engineer for CAE software and hardware. In his current position he is manager of the IT Department for CAE, Computer-Aided Testing, and Model-Based Systems Engineering.

Ravi Shankar, Director Simulation Product Marketing, Siemens PLM Software

S. Ravi Shankar is Director of Simulation Product Marketing at Siemens PLM Software. In this role, he manages a team with global responsibility for NX CAE, NX Nastran, and Teamcenter Simulation product marketing. During the course of his 20-year career he has also held roles in product management and marketing at MSC Software and worked at Ford Motor Company where he developed design-of-experiments and systems engineering applications for NVH and Vehicle Dynamics. Ravi holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business...

Malcolm Panthaki, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Comet Solutions

In his role as company Chief Technology Officer, Malcolm Panthaki drives product vision and technical strategy and is closely involved in corporate development, sales activities, and strategic customer projects. Malcolm has been at the cutting edge of CAE software development since 1987. He started his career as a CAE software engineer at an engineering consulting firm, after which he moved to ABAQUS Inc., where he led the effort to complete an interactive environment for ABAQUS/CAE. Malcolm left ABAQUS in 1994 when he clearly saw that customers using the variety of tools from...

Dan Erno, Mechanical Engineer, GE Global Research

Dan Erno has been a Mechanical Engineer at GE Global Research for 14 years and is currently in the Structures organization working on structural design and optimization for Aviation, Power and Water, Oil and Gas, and Wind. Dan received his BS in mechanical engineering from Rochester Polytechnic Institute and joined the Edison Engineering and Development Program at GE where he received his MS in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech.

David Vredenburgh, Co-Founder & CTO, SBE Vision

David Vredenburgh pioneered knowledge-based engineering (KBE) in the 1990s and has applied his 20 years of software industry experience to building the preeminent rules engine and associated semantic modeling capability for SBE Vision. During his tenure at SBE Vision, David has successfully spearheaded the Company’s product and business strategy, and led the Company from a technology concept to a sales and marketing operation delivering market leading technology to valued global customers. Prior to co-founding SBE Vision, David held pivotal technology leadership positions at leading knowledge management companies: ICAD, SEAshell, and Wisdom Systems. He holds...

Fadi Ben Achour, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development,  ESI Group

Fadi Ben Achour is Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for ESI Group. In this position he is responsible for leading ESI's strategy and business development for various industry segments including market assessment, solutions road map development and buy, build or partner evaluations. He also has responsibility for directing ESI’s go-to-market strategy, industry corporate messaging, and global inbound and outbound marketing activities. Prior to joining ESI Fadi served in various roles at ANSYS. Fadi holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.