CD-adapco appoints new Vice President of Marketing and Business Development

London: Monday, January 31 2005

CD-adapco, the leading provider of advanced CAE and flow-simulation software, is pleased to announce the appointment of CAE industry veteran Dr. Dennis Nagy as its new Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "With over 30 years of experience in all aspects of CAE, from R&D through executive management, Dennis brings a valuable set of abilities and experiences to augment out company's leadership and accelerate our growth," said Steve MacDonald, founder and President of CD-adapco.

Prior to joining CD-adapco, Dr. Nagy held various executive positions in the CAE world including CEO of Engineous, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Support at MSC.Software, VP of Marketing at Fluent, and most recently VP of International Business Development at Blue Ridge Numerics. Earlier in his career, he opened the first German office of SDRC, was on the faculty at Princeton University, and developed finite element software at the University of Stuttgart's prestigious Institute for Aerospace Structures.

" CD-adapco is a recognized market leader with over 20 years of experience in creating measurable business impact via CFD, and more broadly CAE, across the whole spectrum from tough R&D problems to main-line product design and engineering processes," explains Dr. Nagy. "We have a strong global customer base and tremendous depth and breadth of both core technology and talented implementers. I look forward to leveraging our core strengths further and more rapidly into both our existing market segments as well as many exciting emerging industry opportunities."

Dr. Nagy is an engineering graduate of MIT (BS, MS) and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)