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.
François MELOCCO leads the software department at Coriolis Composites. He graduated from the University of Manchester (UMIST) with an MSc in in thermal power fluids engineering. After many years working at Dassault Systèmes mostly with leading roles for CATIA Composites R&D, he now brings his experience to the 3 solutions developed by Coriolis : CADFiber and CATFiber are machine-independant offline programming solutions for automated manufacturing of composite parts, and Simureal is a program validation solution.
While CADFiber and Simureal are standalone solutions, CATFiber is embedded in CATIA/DELMIA V5 and 3DEXPERIENCE, a result of the close partnership between Dassault Systèmes and Coriolis.
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.
Alongside graduation with a PhD in Material Sciences & Engineering Mechanics, Pierre-Yves Mechin worked for the Marine engineering of racing yachts (60 feet boats IMOCA, VOR 70 feet, Ultime boat, America’s Cup...) to contribute on structural design and material mechanical tests. In 2017, he joined Dassault-Systèmes as part of the CATIA Composites team to pursue the double goal of first improving the accuracy of virtual simulation, taking into account the microstructure of composite & possible effect of defects, second of extending the unique 3DEXPERIENCE to deal with integrated Design, Simulation & Manufacturing.
Stephen TODD is a Strategy Planning Expert for the BIOVIA team at Dassault Systèmes UK with a special focus on materials science and simulation tools. Prior to joining the Strategy team, Stephen was the Portfolio Manager for BIOVA’s discrete modeling and simulation tools and worked for 15 years with various stakeholders to build the Materials Studio simulation product.
He has a PhD in molecular modeling of liquid crystals from the University of Hull, UK. With a background in soft materials, Stephen’s interest in composite materials started with an EU project, “NanoInterface” in 2009. He has worked with various customers to develop and refine workflows for simulating resins from atomistic models and looks forward to talking with you.
Etienne ARDOUIN is a Senior Industry Process Consultant for the CATIA team at Dassault Systèmes Americas focusing on Simulation and Design for Manufacturing with Composites and Additive Manufacturing. Coming from a Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering education, his field of expertise is in 3D Design and Simulation with 20 years of experience.
Prior to his position at Dassault Systèmes, Etienne worked in Europe as a design engineer and structural analyst at aerospace and automotive companies. He holds a MS with a specialization in Composites Materials and Structures from the French engineering school “Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Arts et Metiers
