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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the Simulation space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
David Wilkinson
CEO & Founder of HASH
Founder and CEO of HASH; interested in market failures (and solving them in practice). Previously founded a blog network and software development consultancy/product studio.
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About HASH: HASH enables real-time modeling and simulation of complex systems
Shane Fox
Co-Founder and CEO of LINK3D
Shane is a technology evangelist and entrepreneur at the forefront of the Industrial 3D Printing revolution. While working at Within Technologies, a software company that developed and designed software tools for additive manufacturing, Shane’s technology innovation reached over 35 countries. Specializing in topological optimization, he helped create the product known today as Within Medical. In May 2014, Autodesk acquired Within and Shane went on to lead product architecture and business development for the Additive Manufacturing division. Having left Autodesk, Shane co-founded LINK3D. The company’s focus: to automate and optimize the entire additive manufacturing workflow. LINK3D was selected as a ‘FiReStarter Company,’ which previously featured Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) and Michael Dell (Dell), among others. Shane holds a deep understanding of advanced manufacturing, automation, topological optimization and machine learning. He received his B.S in Management Information Systems from California University.
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About LINK3D: Link3D is a SaaS-based solutions to help organizations scale and optimize their additive manufacturing ecosystems.
Daniel Kwak
Co-Founder & CEO of Steady
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About Steady: The simulation platform for design engineers.
Justin Ling
CEO & Co-Founder of EquitySim
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About EquitySim: Equitysim is unlocking human potential through simulation
Joris Poort
Co-Founder & CEO of Rescale
Joris is responsible for leading the management team at Rescale. Prior to founding Rescale, Joris worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company on product development engagements in the high-tech sector. Joris began his career at Boeing, where he worked for four years as a structural and software engineer on the 787 program, optimizing the design of the tail and wings.
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About Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Alexei Marchenkov
Founder and CEO of Bleximo
Alexei has initiated and led several science, technology and commercial projects. He has over two decades of research experience in condensed matter and low temperature physics. Between 2001 and 2009, he was an assistant and associate professor in the School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About Bleximo: Bleximo is aimed at building quantum accelerators to revolutionize the way complex business problems are solved.
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Co-founder & CEO of Common Sense Machines
Max is Co-founder and CEO of Common Sense Machines and an active angel investor. He was cofounder and chief scientist of Diffeo (acquired by Salesforce in 2019) as well as a PhD student in computational cognitive science at MIT, funded by the NSF and the Hertz Foundation. He won best paper at RLDM 2017 for models of human cooperation and the William James Award at SPP for computational work on moral learning. Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow in Beijing. Max holds an MSc in statistics from Oxford, where he was a Marshall scholar, and an undergraduate degree from Stanford, where he was a Goldwater scholar.
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About Common Sense Machines, Diffeo: Common Sense Machines is building artificial intelligence that learns to translate the world into a 3D simulation.
Kevin McNamara
Founder and CEO of Parallel Domain
Kevin brings deep computer graphics experience having built and led a team within Apple’s Special Projects Group focused on autonomous systems simulation. Previously, he architected and implemented procedural content systems for Microsoft Game Studios and contributed to academy award winning films at Pixar Animation Studios.
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About Parallel Domain: Parallel Domain is a synthetic data platform designed to facilitate autonomous vehicle simulation.
Kareem Irfan
CEO of Cranes Software
Irfan has served as a director of the Company since July 8, 2014. Since 2011, Irfan has been the Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of Cranes Software International, a company offering data analytics and engineering simulation software. From 2005 until 2011, he was General Counsel at Schneider Electric, a company which specializes in electricity distribution, automation management and production of installation components for energy management. Irfan is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law, holds a MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a BS in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University.
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About Cranes Software: A company offering data analytics and engineering simulation software.
Jakob Balslev
CEO & Founder of Rokoko
Jakob Balslev is the Founder & CEO of Rokoko.
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About Rokoko: Rokoko develops an animation technology designed to create motion capture assets.
Greg Silverman
CEO of Concentric
Greg Silverman is the CEO at Concentric.
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About Concentric: Concentric enable transformation with an augmented intelligence platform that delivers trustworthy, actionable what-if answers in real-time.
Pete Morrison
Chief Executive Officer of Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim)
Pete began working for BISim in 2005 and became CEO in 2007. As Co-CEO, Pete focuses on the long-term road map of BISim’s product suite, keeping BISim’s organizational focus on end users first at all times. Pete is an evangelist for the use of game technologies and other COTS-type products and software in the simulation & training industry and believes that VBS and our other products are at the forefront of this movement. Before BISim, he studied Computer Science and Management at the Australian Defence Force Academy and graduated with first class honors in 2001. Pete had previously graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, into the Royal Australian Signals Corp. Pete served as a Signals Corp Officer for several years, specializing in military simulation, and his final posting was to the Australian Defence Simulation Office (ADSO) as a Project Officer. Pete transferred to the Army Reserves in 2005 and joined Bohemia Interactive Australia as the Lead Developer of Virtual Battlespace 2, a position he held until he became CEO in 2007.
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About Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim): Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation
Maz Jadallah
Founder/CEO of AlphaClone
Maz Jadallah is the founder of AlphaClone, a technology-driven investment management firm where he serves as CEO and Portfolio Manager. Prior to founding AlphaClone, Maz spent 12 years in senior financial analyst, strategy and technology management roles. Most recently Maz was SVP of Corporate Development at Nasdaq-traded OpenTV. Prior to that, Maz worked at Time Warner Inc where amongst other roles he served as Senior Director reporting directly to Richard Parsons, the then co-COO. Maz is a life long investor, a registered investment advisor representative and has a Series 65 license. He holds an MBA with honors in Finance and Management from Rollins College and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University.
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About AlphaClone: AlphaClone enables users to access alpha-generating stock ideas and investment strategies.
Stephanie Feraday
President & Chief Executive Officer of aPriori Technologies
Stephanie Feraday has over twenty years experience in driving high-growth software businesses in corporate and consumer markets.
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About aPriori Technologies: aPriori Technologies is a provider of a digital manufacturing simulation software.
Anna Griffith
CEO, Co-founder of Discovery Machine, Inc.
Anna’s career has been dedicated to making cognitive science and artificial intelligence research usable by organizations that need to leverage human expertise. Anna created the Discovery Machine knowledge capture methodology, as well as, facilitated the development of DMI’s commercial software products. Anna is the co-founder of Discovery Machine and has served as the CEO since 2008.
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About Discovery Machine, Inc.: Provides software and services to accelerate transition of knowledge from your experts to new recruits using virtual training simulations.
Chad Partridge
CEO of Metamoto
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About Metamoto: Simulation as a Service for Autonomous Systems
Edward Zalta
Chief Executive Officer of Dictacube, Inc.
Edward Zalta, MD, established a national medical management company (PPO) with 350,000 physicians members and 5,000 hospitals. He has owned, operated, and sold six companies, presently a director of 5 Boards and a past director of 23 boards, both for profit and not for profit. He has brought together this 5-member team of experienced and successful entrepreneurs to develop and market a spatial logic puzzle appealing to all age groups and that is far more exciting than the Rubik cube that has enjoyed such huge success.
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About Dictacube, Inc.: Dictacube is a spatial temporal logic puzzle formed from 25 identical components.
Andy Chavez
Co-Founder & CEO of BehaviorMe
Andy Chavez, BArch, M.S.E., Co-Founder holds a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship from the University of Florida, with a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. Andy maintains the company vision in place while in constant search for strategic alliances and business growth.
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About BehaviorMe: BehaviorMe combines Virtual Reality technologies with Behavior Analysis to provide human resource solutions.
Craig Douglass
CEO of Contact CI
A 2015 Whitman School of Management graduate that earned a B.S. in Finance and Accounting. While on campus Craig was a member of leadership in the brotherhood of Sigma Phi Epsilon and stayed active on the SU club lacrosse team. Born and raised in the city of Cincinnati, where he attended Kings High School and honed leadership skills earning the Eagle Scout rank. Passions include skiing, the outdoors, basketball, the stock market, and VR tailored for learning, business, and remarkable experiences.
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About Contact CI: Personal hands-on interaction with the virtual world is achievable with our next generation VR user input, Maestro controller.
Babak Shafei
CEO of AquaNRG
Dr. Babak Shafei is the CEO and founder of AquaNRG and dataPalatable. He has more than 10 years of experience in leading international multi-deciplinary BizDevOps teams in USA, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands. Currently, he is the principal investigator of $1.4M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation and leads a team of highly-skilled professionals working on a novel web application for product and process design and engineering. He has developed multiple open-source and commercial simulation software packages which have been used by leading research institutes and energy companies in the world. Dr. Babak Shafei received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology where his thesis received the prestigious Research Excellence Award. While visiting ETH Zurich and Utrecht University, he was awarded Marie-Curie fellowship from European Commission.
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About AquaNRG: AquaNRG offers next-generation diagnostic models, data analytics,and digital screening tools for novel energy and environmental applications
Stephen Larson
CEO / Co-founder of MetaCell
CEO / Co-founder at MetaCell
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About MetaCell, OpenWorm: Software for Neuroscience
Jerrold Prothero
Founder & CEO of Astrapi
Jerrold Prothero joined Astrapi Corporation as Founder & CEO in 2010.
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About Astrapi: Astrapi is an early-stage company licensing a transformative form of signal modulation, based on complex spirals that demonstrate an order
Mark Land
Founder & CEO of Melior Innovations
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About Melior Innovations: Melior Innovations™ is a materials technology company.
Dave McCool
President & CEO of Muzzy Lane Software
Dave McCool has been in the software industry for over 20 years. He co-founded Muzzy Lane Software in 2002 and serves as its Chairman & CTO. Dave has played a key role in the design of Muzzy Lane’s software and games. He led Muzzy Lane’s very successful launch of the Making History Gaming Headquarters, an interactive website that allows Making History players to chat, share game mods, review and rate content, and post After Action Reports. Prior to Muzzy Lane Dave co-founded Aptis Communications, a VC funded developer of carrier- class networking products, in 1997. As Director of Software Dave built and ran a 25 person software group and was the architect of the Aptis software system. The company was sold to Nortel Networks in 1998 and went on to do more than $600 million dollars in revenue from its CVX product line.
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About Muzzy Lane Software: Muzzy Lane Author allows you to create and deploy game-based learning activities and assessments.
Greg Meyers
CEO of ForgeFX Simulations
As Chief Executive Officer, Greg consults with our clients, studies their business and generates creative solutions for their training needs. Greg helps clients come up with a range of big picture, out-of-the-box solutions, and works with them to make their vision a reality. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Greg serves as our principle consultant and initial point of contact for companies who are seeking simulation-based training guidance relevant to their specific requirements.
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About ForgeFX Simulations: ForgeFX Training Simulations is a 3D job-training simulation development company.
Rachel Baker
CEO – Owner – Sr Engineer of Servos & Simulation, Inc
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About Servos & Simulation, Inc: Servos & Simulation is the premiere manufacturer of Control Loading and Motion Platform Systems for all applications.
