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Zhang Ying was appointed as the new Managing Director responsible for the Greater China geography of Dassault Systèmes since Jan 1, 2016. Zhang Ying is responsible for strategy development and implementation, as well as all operations in the Greater China geography including channels, brands and industry services.
Zhang Ying has over 30 years of technology and experience of software industry and a wealth of experience for the business management and development of science and technology enterprises in China and Asia Pacific.

Prior to Dassault Systèmes, he worked more than 17 years in Hewlett Packard and has taken the positions of General Manager of Enterprise Storage, Server & Network Hewlett Packard China and General Manager of Business Critical System, Network Hewlett Asia Pacific & Japan. He has successfully promoted the information solutions in the application of the new industries such as manufacturing, finance, and telecommunications. Going further back, he has worked more than 4 years in Wincor Nixdorf as the Managing Director of China. Mr. Zhang owns a master's degree in computer science.

Sylvain Laurent was appointed Executive Vice President, 3DS Business Transformation (BT) of Dassault Systèmes in April 2011.

In this position, he is responsible for sales to large accounts, as well as for 3DS solutions and services worldwide. He is also a member of the executive committee.

Mr. Laurent joined Dassault Systèmes in 2008 as head of BT Sales in Europe with a solid experience in large accounts management. He has been instrumental in enabling Dassault Systèmes to pursue the transformation of its “go-to-market” strategy.

Mr. Laurent has more than 25 years of experience in PLM domain, having worked previously at Siemens PLM Software and IBM PLM, as well as having created a PLM Consulting and System integration company.

Bruno Latchague has been instrumental in planning and implementing key transformations at Dassault Systèmes in R&D, service and, most recently, sales. While striving to promote an organic approach to change, he builds efficient, dedicated, responsive organizations and teams that can rise to the technological, creative and industrial challenges for which Dassault Systèmes provides solutions.

One of the creative forces behind the CATIA brand, Latchague has made wide-ranging contributions to the design and implementation of new methods for organization, operations and customer relations. His work has been a vital component in the Company’s technological breakthroughs. After working in the IT consulting domain and in the automotive industry as a CAD/CAM specialist, Bruno Latchague joined Dassault Systèmes in 1986 as Manager of CATIA Software Infrastructure. In conjunction with commercial development, Latchague supervised the implementation of CATIA V3 for companies such as Daimler, Honda and IBM. He also launched an expanded portfolio of CATIA applications. In 1988, as Senior Manager of CATIA Industrialization and Maintenance, he implemented continuous-improvement processes designed to guarantee product quality. In 1990, as Director of CATIA Products Infrastructure, Latchague was made head of CATIA brand development. He consolidated structural and human resources for rapid, sustainable growth just as Dassault Systèmes was launching its first digital mockups (DMUs). He expanded this mission to all Dassault Systèmes products in 1995, when he became Executive Vice President of R&D, Architecture and Modeling Technology. In 1999, Latchague oversaw development of the platform for the launch of the V5 architecture. He persuaded several major companies in the automotive and aviation industries (Chrysler, Daimler, Renault, BMW, Dassault Aviation, Boeing, etc.) to adopt the new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. For many years Latchague has played an important role in enhancing the business culture and commercial power of Dassault Systèmes, both of which are crucial to the Company’s expansion into new countries and sectors. In 2003, as head of Industry Solutions and then of Services, Bruno Latchague expanded the capacity of Dassault Systèmes to understand and anticipate the technological and production challenges faced by other companies, and helped to adapt the Company’s product offers to each sector. From 2007 to 2010, he participated in the successful acquisition of IBM PLM, which has allowed Dassault Systèmes to take command of its entire distribution network. He monitored the integration of new teams and took charge of the direct-sales channel (Business Transformation) worldwide, thereby achieving heightened efficiency. From 2011 to 2014, Bruno Latchague led strategy and operations for the three sales channels of Dassault Systèmes. His mission was to support the development of 3DEXPERIENCE® and help diversify the geographic regions and business sectors of Dassault Systèmes, mainly by fostering cooperation among sales channels, consolidating the Company’s partnership ecosystem and forging closer ties with local markets. Since 2014, he has also spearheaded Dassault Systèmes development and operations in the Americas, an area primed for growth. Since 2015, he has headed the Value Solutions and Professional channels —the company’s two indirect sales channels, and has taken the whole responsibility for the worldwide Industry organization in charge of addressing the specific needs of each of the 12 industries served by Dassault Systèmes.

Mr. Ke Wang has over 15 years of professional consulting and management experience, he is currently a managing director of Accenture China leading their digital production and operations practice. Mr. Wang has rich experience which covers strategy and management consulting as well as engineering. Prior to joining Accenture he was the CEO of a management consulting firm and a member of the management team for a leading strategy consulting firm in China.
Mr. Wang has led various projects focusing on corporate and business strategy and operational excellence. He has optimized production processes to improve the production efficiency and implemented lighthouse projects for smart manufacturing. In addition he has strong expertise in connectivity and digitization, especially in the automotive industry.

Mr. Chen is responsible for developing the HUAWEI CLOUD partner ecosystem in the global market. He has nearly 15 years' R&D and marketing experience in the ICT industry; extensive experience in market exploration and operations in private and public cloud domains; and in-depth understanding of cloud computing.

Bob Parker is a Senior Vice President responsible for several areas of research at IDC.  Bob leads the global industry research teams which includes coverage of healthcare, government, retail, energy, manufacturing, and financial services as well as a cross industry group looking at emerging topics such as blockchain and robotics.  Additionally, Bob leads our teams in the enterprise applications space, services, and the IDC coverage of data intelligence which includes coverage of artificial intelligence.  
Bob has been conducting industry research for over twenty years including five years at AMR Research before joining IDC.  Prior to entering the research field, Bob spent over fifteen years in various Information Technology and Operational management roles in the manufacturing industry including serving as the Chief Information Officer at Eastern Technologies, a defense contractor.  
Bob speaks at numerous industry conferences and is often quoted in the technology, industry, and business press.

Mr. Yunhou (Owen) WANG graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University, holding a Bachelor degree in Information Engineering. He also holds Master degree in Finance of Renmin University. He focuses on Enterprise Application and Industrial Software research.

Mr. WANG has published research work including “China Industrial Software Market Research Annual Report”,  “China Enterprise Application Software Market Research Annual Report”, “China Industrial Internet Market Research Annual Report”, “China Industrial Internet Industry and Investment Research”.
He also published media articles such as “Review and Prospect of Industrial Software Market in China”, “Industrial Internet becoming breakthrough for ‘Made in China 2025’”, “High-performance computing brings possibilities to embedded applications”.
Mr. WANG also led or participated in projects including “Digital Economy Industry Planning for Inner Mongolia”, “Big Data Industry Planning for Chengde”, “Industrial Transformation and Upgrading Planning for Boyan Industrial Park”, etc.

In May 2018 Albert Pozo joined SATS, Asia’s leading Ground Handling and Food Services company, as Chief Digital Officer. Since then, Albert has spearheaded the digital transformation of SATS Group’s product, processes and technology, achieving productivity gains and implementing innovate new services. 

Prior to this, Albert was President of Amadeus Asia Pacific, responsible for its Distribution regional growth. He first joined Amadeus in 1993, and he has held a number of leadership roles. Prior to Amadeus, Albert worked for Swissair for five years. 

Albert holds an honours degree in linguistics from UAB and has completed executive programmes at INSEAD and University of St. Gallen.

Graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University,  Yang Dongxu worked as a mechanical design engineer for non-standard equipment at Changchun Institute of Mechanical Sciences. Since joining FAW Group in 2011, he has served as a general assembly technologist in the technical department and a process supervisor in the general assembly technology department. Since 2017, he took the position as director of Final Assembly Technology of the Engineering and Technology Department, and has been responsible for final assembly technical operations.

A new addition to the Dassault Systems’ family, Marie-Catherine’s background is in Aerospace. She spent most of her career as a technical lead for various projects at Bombardier Aerospace where she first became interested in Digital Continuity. After a few years at Tesla, where she got to exploit this passion, building a fully functional Digital Twin, Marie-Catherine has taken on a Management role with the Delmia Center of Excellence.

Graduating from the California Institute of Technology with a Ph. D. in Aeronautics (93), Guillaume started his career in Engineering and R&D in the Transport sector, from aerospace as R&D engineer in Composite material at Aerospatiale (94-98, to Advanced project Director at Valeo Electrical System (98-06)  to various position in Engineering and R&D at Alstom Transport. In 2010, still in Alstom Transport, Guillaume entered the Manufacturing world as VP industrial. In 2016, Guillaume joined DS to lead the DELMIA Brand, DS industrial solutions portfolio to continue supporting all industries in the digital revolution to come.  

Stéphane Declée is the CEO of the Dassault Systèmes ENOVIA brand, appointed to this position in January 2016. In this role he is responsible for all aspects of the ENOVIA brand strategy, research and development, and business operations. As the CEO of ENOVIA, his is also a member of the Dassault Systèmes’ Global Executive Management team.

Stéphane Declée has 25 years of experience in engineering and executive leadership at Dassault Systèmes, where he began his career in 1991 as a research and development software engineer. He later became Product Manager and Domain Leader for the company’s flagship brand, CATIA, and was then promoted to Vice President, Strategy and Research. Following this, he was named Vice President, Research and Development of the ENOVIA brand based in the United States, where he led the acquisition and integration of MatrixOne and subsequent ENOVIA launches. He was then moved into Vice President, Research and Development Industry Solutions, where he used his leadership to formulate and implement the Dassault Systèmes industry go-to-market approach.

Most recently, Stéphane Declée was appointed Vice President, Energy, Process and Utilities Industry, Dassault Systèmes, in 2012. In this role, he drove the industry’s adoption of a new digital perspective for the entire business lifecycle—from innovation to recycling—with a vision to deliver sustainable life for the 21st century using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

Stéphane Declée earned his degree in thermo energetics from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in Rouen, France. He is also a 2009 graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

Patrick MICHEL was appointed Vice President, DELMIA Industry Solutions & Marketing in 2005. Patrick joined Dassault Systèmes in 1996 after graduating in Electrical Engineering at the University of Grenoble in France and having completed a Master’s of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. He started his career in the CATIA V4 Industrialization department quickly taking responsibility for the Industrialization of the PLM products in particular ENOVIAvpm and CATIA V4/V5. 

After three years at Dassault Systèmes, Patrick took on the challenging two year assignment as executive technical assistant to Bernard CHARLES, CEO and President. 

In 2002 Patrick was appointed R&D Director for CATIA and SmarTeam PLM Solutions, defining and bringing to market Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions for the Small and Medium size companies. 

In his current position he leads the Industry Solutions & Marketing organization for DELMIA Digital Manufacturing, defining solutions for the different industries including automotive, aerospace & shipbuilding industries.

Michael Larsson has over 20 years of experience from the robotics industry in general and automotive manufacturing in particular. Throughout his career, Michael has held a number of assignments in Sweden, the Middle East, China, Switzerland, and the United States, including CFO for ABB Robotics and Global Head of Robot Systems.  Michael resides in Rochester, Mi, U.S.A. and has a degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.