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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Comet Solutions, Inc. Expands Team to Capture Increasing Market Demand and Capitalize on Customer Success

Albuquerque, NM (PRWEB) April 9, 2008

Comet Solutions, Inc., the pioneer in integrated simulation engineering, announced today that the organization has hired three industry experts to help manage its expanding customer base and to extend the company's reach into international markets. Joining Comet's team are PLM veterans Nitin Jain, Dan Vitale and Jean-Claude Mahuet, who collectively bring proven success in transforming the CAE industry, achieving customer satisfaction and expansion, and driving innovative solutions into the market while collaborating closely with customers to make them successful.


"The addition of these three seasoned team members underscores our commitment to work closely with innovative companies which seek competitive advantages in product development through much more effective and early use of product simulation," said Dan Meyer, president, Comet Solutions, Inc. "The team now in place understands the engineering challenges facing our customers and how to partner with customers to achieve results for their businesses. Furthermore, we have significantly improved our ability to drive sales and support our expanding network of business partners."


"Comet is uniquely positioned to offer something new and powerful to the product design process. Comet Simulation Templates deliver clear advantages in terms of automation and reuse to customers looking to take the benefits of CAE to the next level," said Nitin Jain, technical sales and marketing manager, Comet Solutions, Inc. "I'm pleased to be on the team to capitalize on these opportunities and be a part of that momentum."


Nitin Jain joins Comet Solutions as technical sales and marketing manager. Most recently, he led technical marketing for analysis products at Solidworks Corporation and served as the technical expert for COSMOS products. Mr. Jain joined Solidworks through the Dassault Systemes acquisition of SRAC, and he has many years experience in providing intuitive and straightforward CAD/CAE/PDM tools to help design teams develop better products. Mr. Jain is a frequent speaker at PLM industry conferences and is recognized for his expertise at the forefront of changes in CAE applications.


Dan Vitale joins Comet Solutions in the role of sales executive. Mr. Vitale has over 25 years sales experience, mainly in the CAD/CAE industry and including pioneering young companies. Recently, he was Sales Director at the 3Dconnexion division of Logitech where he sold into major automotive accounts and other OEMs. Prior to this role, he was Director of Sales for Elumens, an emerging company with a hardware product for advanced visualization/simulation. His prior industry experience includes sales roles at Kubota Graphics/AccelGraphics, Control Data and Intergraph. Mr. Vitale has a proven track record of creating customer success through the sale of highly technical products and is known for his ability to closely collaborate with partners.


Jean-Claude Mahuet joins Comet Solutions in the role of senior customer applications engineer. Mr. Mahuet's role revolves around customer success through rapid product adoption and benefits from Comet products. Mr. Mahuet has 17 years experience in a variety of pre and post-sales technical roles in the PLM industry. Most recently, Mr. Mahuet worked at think3, where he drove customer success in the U.S. and Asia for their industrial design applications including spring-back analysis in plastics processing. Mr. Mahuet started his career with Cisigraph in customer support roles with a focus on plastic injection simulation software and FEA applications. Cisigraph was acquired by Matra Datavision, where he held application engineering roles working with a variety of 2D, 3D, simulation and FEA applications. He has held other technical consulting and engineering services roles with SDRC, Spatial Concepts and Intelligent Manufacturing Software. Mr. Mahuet is respected by customers for his technical competence, understanding of their design/engineering processes and drive to achieve results.


About Comet Solutions, Inc. (http://www.cometsolutions.com)

Comet Solutions, Inc. breaks the boundaries of simulation by providing a full line of software applications that enable manufacturers to achieve a product development process driven by engineering intent. By providing the industry's first Single Project Environment - workgroups have a "place for simulation" that powers a streamlined workflow while allowing engineers to use existing CAD/CAE/PLM tools. Comet software removes the dependency on CAD so companies significantly improve their ability to benefit from simulation results during early stages of conceptual engineering and feasibility studies. Comet's reusable Simulation Templates bring insight from simulation much earlier in the product design process, placing it in the hands of the entire organization. With Comet software, companies exploit the full potential of CAD/CAE/PLM tools and explore more design alternatives, enabling the rapid development and delivery of more innovative, higher quality, and cost-effective products.


Media Contact:

Kelly Vickers

Director of Marketing

Comet Solutions, Inc.

(513) 407-5559 or (505) 323-2525


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Karmasphere Expands Board of Directors with Addition of Debby Meredith

Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) August 18, 2010

Karmasphere?, the leader in Big Data Intelligence software, today announced that veteran Silicon Valley product engineering manager, Debby Meredith, has joined its board of directors. Meredith brings to the Karmasphere board over 20 years of proven experience in managing the development and delivery of new software-based technologies and a broad set of related operational skills.


Meredith joins existing board members: Martin Hall, co-founder and CEO of Karmasphere; Ann Winblad, managing director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; David Liddle, partner at USVP; and Gail Ennis, formerly CMO of Omniture (now an Adobe company).


?Speaking in the spirit of baseball season, Karmasphere now has a truly ?all-star? board,? said Martin Hall, chief executive of Karmasphere. ?Having the ability to tap into Debby?s vast set of engineering and product development expertise is like having the best home-run hitter available during the playoffs. Her insight, advice and overall contributions are already proving to be instrumental,? continued Hall.


?The data analytics world is in a state of transition as the impact of Big Data reverberates throughout. Karmasphere is bringing a new generation of software products to market to help developers and technical analysts more easily unlock the power within massive data sets, using new open source technologies like Hadoop, Hive and others,? said Meredith. ?I?m excited to put my expertise and know-how to work on behalf of Karmasphere.?


Meredith brings a wealth of experience managing product engineering teams and bringing new technologies to market, including working hands-on with company founders, helping to assemble world-class teams, architecting software products, and establishing roadmaps for operational success. Meredith often works with start-up companies as interim VP of Engineering, interim CEO or an advisor. Also, she works with Jafco Ventures as a Venture Partner, and previously she was a Venture Partner with Mohr, Davidow Ventures (MDV).


Earlier in her career, Meredith held a variety of technical and general management positions at America Online/Netscape, including senior vice president of Strategic Technologies and Products, vice president of Browser Products and Chief Quality Officer. Prior to Netscape, she was vice president of engineering for Collabra Software and vice president of development at Slate Corporation. Meredith also held key technical positions at Metaphor Computer Systems, Logitech and Bell Laboratories.


Meredith earned a Master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. She received her undergraduate degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Michigan.


About Karmasphere

Karmasphere is a big data intelligence software company bringing Apache Hadoop power to developers and analysts. Karmasphere enables companies to unlock the competitive advantages within their large datasets by providing an easy-to-use class of client-side software. Karmasphere?s products, built around the Karmasphere Application Framework?, feature independence across any Hadoop environment, easy one-click deployment across any cloud/cluster, and a rich and friendly user-interface to maximize productivity, discovery and insight. For more information please see http://www.karmasphere.com.


Note: Karmasphere, Karmasphere Application Framework and Karmasphere Studio are trademarks of Karmasphere. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.


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