Dr. Hubertus Tummescheit is the Chief Executive Officer of Modelon Inc., and one of the founders of Modelon AB. Dr. Tummescheit received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Hamburg, Germany, and his PhD in Automatic Control from the University of Lund, Sweden. He has been involved in the design of the Modelica language from the beginning and is the developer of a number of open source and commercial Modelica libraries. In 2003 he worked as a research scientist at United Technologies Research Center and returned to Sweden in 2004 to start Modelon AB. Dr. Tummescheit is active in the steering committee for the Functional-Mockup-Interface standard definition, and is a board member of the Modelica Association. Dr. Tummescheit served as the CEO of Modelon AB from 2004 to 2012 and moved to Hartford, CT to establish Modelon in the United States.