Joined Honda Motor Co., Ltd. In 1996. He started off his career at Honda as an engineer in charge of collision safety testing. He has been engaged in various areas of work such as the development of vehicles in the field of collision safety performance and body weight reduction research. For the last two years, he worked on building the foundation for simulation in the vehicle development area. He is currently responsible for the development of body and exterior, and collision safety vehicle development at BEV Development Center, BEV Automobile Development Unit, BEV Development Division.
I am an Industrial designer and engineer, certified Catia Champion by Dassault Systèmes. My expertise focuses on innovation. Each project is an opportunity for me to create elegant and relevant solutions, while meeting the precise needs of a specification. My mastery of various tools, from generative design to digital simulation, is for me a help to provide better answers, whether it is robotics, medical products or the integration of complex systems. Always looking to learn, I seek to combine aesthetics and functionality to offer products that combine technicality and creativity.
As Project Manager for vehicle-related issues across multiple engineering disciplines (Body In White, Equipment, Chassis…), Pascal Pancrace conducts new developments in CAD Design activities, from CAE computations to global optimisation and design of experiments.
Graduated 2002 from EPFL in Lausanne as Dipl. Ing Mechanical Engineering with specializations in numerical methods and turbomachines.
Started his career at MTU Aeroengines in Munich in 2001 in the department for unsteady aerodynamics and acoustic design of jet engines. In 2004, the simulation department in the consulting branch of MTU covered all simulation domains. In 2008 moved to EXA Corporation as technical director for Central Europe and helped expand the Heavy Industry in Europe and Aerospace worldwide markets ending his EXA career as Managing Director for the Aerospace Industry. He moved into Dassault Systemes end of 2017 and took the lead of the Experience Management team for Aerospace and Defense as Technical Sales Director before transitioning into his role in 2019 as Senior Sales Director for Simulia in EuroCentral. His current role since 2023 is SIMULIA Sales & Marketing Vice President
26 years of expertise in Product Development & End to End Virtual Product / Experience Innovation.Since December 2019, CEO of CATIA at DASSAULT SYSTEMES.
He started his career at Dassault Systèmes (3DS) in 1995 in CATIA’s Shape Design Industrialization Team. Then, he joined 3DS International Automotive Competency Center working with renowned customers like HONDA, FIAT, BMW, CHRYSLER and PSA to help them transform their design practices in the area of car body and styling. Through these experiences, he acquired deep knowledge of the automotive sector and customers’ business processes.
In 2011, he was appointed Vice President of the new defined Transportation & Mobility industry, which assists manufacturers and suppliers in developing new mobility experiences for their consumers.
As CATIA CEO, he is looking forward to empower the Community of Design Innovators to Engineer & Experience the best System of System from Concept to Experience Driven Engineering.
Gregor leads the worldwide SIMULIA Industry Process Success team. He is working in the field of simulation for 23 years, 18 of them at Dassault Systèmes. Before then he has been with Abaqus Inc. Gregor holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University Vienna.
Daniel PYZAK graduated in Mechanical Engineering. He has over 38 years of experience in CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM. After positions held in technical support and product management in various CAD/CAM companies (Cisi, Cisigraph, Matra Datavision), he joined Dassault Systèmes Provence in 1999 to manage the Competency Center. The main activities of DSP Competency Center are around tooling, machining, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing and data exchanges.
Ten years later, he became responsible of different CATIA technical teams inside for EMEAR (Design, Engineering). And since January 2020, he’s managing the worldwide CATIA Mechanical Industry Process Success organization with a strong focus on Lightweight Engineering: Generative Design, Composites, Mold & Die, Additive Manufacturing, Modeling & Simulation.
Joe graduated from Cambridge University and gained a PhD from Imperial College before joining Jaguar Cars as an aerodynamicist in 1998. Joe was responsible for the aerodynamic development of a number of Jaguar vehicles, using physical tests methods and CFD and eventually became the Technical Specialist for Aerodynamics at JLR. Joe then joined Exa Corporation in 2005, as their first UK employee, in order to focus exclusively on CFD with the PowerFLOW toolset.
At Exa Joe was heavily involved in the development and deployment of the PowerFLOW toolset for automotive and motorsport across the world. In 2017 Exa was acquired by Dassault Systèmes, as part of their SIMULIA Brand. Joe now manages a team dedicated to delivering automated simulation & optimization process to SIMULIA customers worldwide.
Manohar PRABHU is the Director of Worldwide Technical Sales, CATIA Concept Engineering at Dassault Systèmes.
PRABHU has more than 25 years of experience working on several projects with various automotive OEMs and engineering companies globally in engineering and management. He is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) and recipient of the German Academic Exchange scholarship (DAAD) to continue the Master's degree at the Technical University of Berlin.
Prabhu started his professional career at SFE GmbH, an SMB in Berlin, Germany, as an Applications Engineer to become the VP for the North American business and later the Managing Director of SFE. After its acquisition by Dassault Systèmes, Prabhu successfully managed the merge and integration of SFE GmbH with Dassault Systèmes.