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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.
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Dr. Todd McDevitt, Marketing Director, ANSYS
Todd McDevitt is a Marketing Director at ANSYS, Inc. and has more than 15 years experience designing and developing commercial engineering software. His areas of expertise include nonlinear finite element analysis, multibody dynamics, embedded control systems, and model-based system engineering. At ANSYS his efforts are directed towards strategic marketing initiatives and facilitating the company’s R&D planning and decision-making. Todd received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and holds a Professional Engineering license in the State of Michigan.
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Diego Tamburini, Senior Industry Program Manager, Manufacturing, Autodesk
Diego Tamburini currently works for the Manufacturing Strategic Industry Relations group at Autodesk. He focuses on defining the vision for Autodesk in manufacturing and evangelizing Autodesk as a thought leader in the industry.
Diego came to Autodesk after 10 years at Microsoft, where he was working in the Microsoft Dynamics development team developing the upcoming first cloud release of Dynamics ERP for Professional Services. Prior to Microsoft Dynamics, he was in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group, where he managed a team of Developer Evangelists whose mission was to help Global ISVs in Engineering & Manufacturing align their product strategy with upcoming Microsoft technologies. Before managing this team, he was a Developer Evangelist for Engineering & Manufacturing ISVs.
Diego also worked as Research Engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Systems (PSLM) Center. There he worked on engineering information modeling, software infrastructures for integrated collaborative engineering, and knowledge representations and interoperability technologies to enable them. He also worked closely with the OMG group developing and reviewing the SysML standard (an extension of UML targeted to Systems Engineering).
Before Microsoft, he worked at SDRC (now Siemens PLM) as a Principal PLM Implementation Engineer, helping large customers such as Boeing and Goodrich Aerospace implement UGS’ PLM system (known as Metaphase at that time).
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Matthew Loew, Technical Director , Maverick Innovation Lab
Matthew Loew has a passion for building and leading high-performance engineering teams supporting new product development projects. He is active in large-scale engineering projects in transportation, defense, energy, industrial, and heavy equipment sectors. Matthew recently started Tera Development Solutions to work collaboratively with companies to solve New Product Development challenges utilizing Design Thinking, Advanced Modeling & Simulation, and Accelerated Product Development Methods. He is also the Technical Director at the Maverick Innovation Lab, lectures at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, and blogs regularly on ENGINEERING.com.
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Chris Wolfe, Lead Product Manager, ANSYS
Chris Wolfe has been with ANSYS, Inc. for nearly 12 years and is currently a lead product manager focusing on multiphysics simulation. After spending almost nine years with fluid dynamics as the Fluent product manager at ANSYS, Chris went on to broaden her horizons to include structural mechanics and electromagnetics and the interactions between these physics. Before product management, she helped ANSYS’ customers to be successful with the software as a technical support engineer. Before joining ANSYS, she worked at DuPont applying ANSYS Fluent to a variety of problems. Chris earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an MBA fromt Northeastern University.
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Andrew Foster, M.Eng C.Eng MIET, Senior Offering Manager, IBM Rational
Andrew Foster has more than 16 years experience working on a variety of large scale systems engineering projects at companies specialising in defence, aerospace, IT, and telecommunications. His industry expertise in systems engineering and complex engineering methods led him to join the software company Telelogic AB as a technical consultant specialising in requirements management. After Telelogic was acquired by IBM, Andrew took on a product management role in the IBM Rational brand working with strategic clients worldwide. More recently, Andrew has led a range of projects helping client’s transform their systems development approach using IBM Rational’s solution for systems and software engineering. Andrew is a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineering & Technology and a member of INCOSE.
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Gérard Morin Vice President, Professional Services, Esterel Technologies
Gérard Morin joined Esterel Technologies (Esterel) in October 2001 as an industry marketing manager. Between 2002 and 2005, he was Vice President of Product Marketing for the SCADE product line. In 2005 he assumed the position of Vice President of Professional Services, directing embedded software projects and managing the development of classroom training courses and self-learning material. Gérard specializes in software and systems engineering processes. He has written handbooks, papers, and training material focused on how the SCADE product line supports safety-critical standards such as: DO-178C, ARP-4754A, EN 50128, and IEC 61508.
Prior to joining Esterel, Gérard managed several engineering departments at Ascom in France and Switzerland, specializing in Telecom and Electronic Banking embedded software. While at Ascom Gérard was also the manager of strategic engineering projects in the area of electronic payment and SmartCards. He also worked as a software project manager at Crouzet, where he developed advanced solutions for fare collection systems and electronic payment terminals. He also developed several electronic devices for medical research at INSERM and CNRS.
Gérard has an engineering degree with a specialization in physics and electronics from the Ecole Supérieure Chimie Physique Electronique de Lyon (CPE).
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Dr. Vincent Talon, Chief of UET Modeling System 0D, Renault
Dr. Vincent Talon is currently Renault’s Chief of UET Modeling System 0D, a role he assumed in 2013. In this role Dr. Talon is involved in architectural definition, control, validation, and tuning. Previously, he was involved in various activities at Renault including model development for HCCI combustion, a model system for control design, and control and tuning for the engine and driveline department. He is also a recognized expert for model system 0D. Dr. Talon's Ph.D. thesis looked into the gasoline engine model using a bond graph approach.
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Michael Bloor, Chief Operating Officer, ESI North America
Michael Bloor has led ESI’s business activities in North America as Chief Operating Officer since 2005 focused on growth and consolidation of ESI’s engineering simulation and process design products. Michael joined ESI in 2002 following the acquisition of Vibro-Acoustic Sciences with the responsibility of Global Business Development for the ESI acoustic products. Prior to joining ESI Michael led the Vibro-Acoustic Sciences Sales and Marketing team as Director, responsible for global sales strategy and performance. Michael has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clarkson University.
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Dr. Jan M. Leuridan, CEO, LMS, A Siemens Business
Dr. Jan Leuridan joined LMS International in 1984 as Research and Development Manager and was subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Technical Officer for the company. Since 1987, he also served as a member of the Board of Directors of LMS. Following the acquisition of LMS by Siemens in 2013, Dr. Leuridan became Senior Vice President, Simulation & Test segment, Siemens PLM Software.
Dr. Leuridan received an engineering degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leuven in 1980. He later received a M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) from the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering of the University of Cincinnati.
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