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Our Team

Learn about our founders, as well as support professionals, developers, account managers, and behind-the-scenes staff who work hard to make you successful.

Our People

Meet the people that make this global enterprise feel more like a family.

Silvana Quintero
Director of Ecosystem Marketing
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Dirk Lax
EMEA & APAC Assistant Controller
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Miranda Gould
License and Operations Manager
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Management Team

Dr. Tobias Achterberg
Vice President of Research and Development
Dr. Robert Bixby
Advisor and Co-founder
Ryan Dunlap
Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Gregory Glockner
Vice President and Technical Fellow
Dr. Zonghao Gu
Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder
Michael Harkness
Vice President of People
Akhilesh Jaiswal
Vice President, Technology and Operations
Juan-Carlos Mani
Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Dr. Sonja Mars
Director of Optimization Support
Duke Perrucci
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Edward Rothberg
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Michael Wooh
Head of Global Marketing

Development Team

Dr. Pierre Bonami
Senior Developer
Thomas Braam
CI/CD Engineer
Dr. Stefan Heinz
Senior Developer
Dr. Michel Jaczynski
Senior Director of Cloud and Platform R&D
Dr. Ed Klotz
Senior Mathematical Optimization Specialist
Dr. Robert Luce
Senior Developer
Dr. Jaromił Najman
Software Developer
Olivier Noiret
Senior Developer
Fernando Orozco
Senior Developer
Rinor Sadiku
Senior Developer
Wale Sipe
DevOps Engineer
Michael Winkler
Senior Developer
Dr. Roland Wunderling
Senior Developer

Experts Team

Dr. Maliheh Aramon
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Simon Bowly
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Gwyneth Butera
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dr. Alison Cozad
Optimization Engineer
Juan Antonio Orozco Guzmán
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Elisabeth Rodriguez Heck
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Silke Horn
Senior Optimization Engineer
Dr. Marika Karbstein
Optimization Engineer
Matthias Miltenberger
Optimization Support Manager
Dr. Mario Ruthmair
Optimization Engineer
Dr. David Torres Sanchez
Optimization Engineer
Dr. Eli Towle
Optimization Support Manager
Dr. Yuriy Zinchenko
Senior Optimization Engineer

Sales Team

Mil Amirian
Senior Account Manager - Americas
Frédéric Baumann
Account Director - Europe, Africa
Dan Beran
Associate Account Manager - Americas
Anita Bowers
Account Manager - Americas
Matthias Buhlis
Associate Account Manager - Americas
Paul Charchaflian
Director of Sales - Americas Verticals
Randy Conley
Account Director - Americas Continuous Production
Adam Dix
Account Director – Financial Services
Sascha Haake
Director of Sales - Europe, Russia, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent
Frank Häger
Account Director - Europe Power & Utilities, Strategic Accounts
Matt Izatt
Director of Sales - Americas
Julie Jagneaux
Sales Operations Manager - Americas
Kang Ju (KJ) Lee
Account Director
Peter Matthesius
Account Director - Germany
Sean Sascha Merz
Account Manager - Europe, Russia, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent
Jason Morris
Account Director - Americas Power & Utilities
Kevin O’Connor
Account Manager - Americas
Shireen ONG
Account Director for South-East Asia
David O’Keefe
Account Director - Americas Ecosystem
Danielle Parry
Account Director - Europe, Africa
Milos Pavlovic
Account Director - Europe, Russia, Middle East, Indian Subcontinent
Tracy Pesanelli
Vice President - Americas Senior Sales Advisor
Mian Qin
Account Director - Americas
Tyler Radmall
Account Manager - Americas
Manuel Rassi
Account Director - Telecom Americas
Katie Robson
Manager of Global Sales Operations
Jan Schwarzkopf
Account Manager - Europe Ecosystem
Roy Smith
Account Director - Europe Continuous Production
Christopher Smith
Account Director - Europe Financial Services
Mark Steidel
Account Director - Americas
Derek Tippets
Account Manager - Americas

Technical Account Management Team

Zed Dean
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Romain Doucet
Technical Account Manager- EMEAI
Dr. Steven Edwards
Technical Account Manager – Oceania, South-East Asia
Dr. Rodrigo Fuentes
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Dan Jeffrey
Senior Technical Account Manager – Americas
Jennifer Locke
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Dr. Richard Oberdieck
Technical Account Manager – EMEAI
Dr. Kostja Siefen
Head of Global Technical Account Management
Dr. Cara Touretzky
Technical Account Manager – Americas
Ronald van der Velden
Technical Account Manager – EMEAI

Marketing Team

Nell-Marie Colman
Director of Content
Colum Devine
Sr. Global Marketing Manager
Marlene Hopewell
Marketing Manager
Adam Horowitz
Marketing Operations Director
Paloma Lucas Jambrina
Partner Ecosystem Program Manager
Lindsay Montanari
Academic Program Director
Silvana Quintero
Director of Ecosystem Marketing
Nick Roman
Director of Creative Services
Vanessa Schmidt
Marketing Manager
Ronald Shung
Director of Product Marketing
Kathleen Spalding
Marketing Manager
Angela Di Stasio
Sr. Marketing Manager
Pamela Trevino
EMEA Marketing Manager
Isela Warner
Global Marketing Senior Director
Jerry Yurchisin
Data Science Strategist

Finance Team

Bianca Barcomb
Billing and AR Specialist
Cody Collier
Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Jennifer Gillespie
Accounting Manager
Diane Hailey
General Ledger Accountant
Keith Hogan
Director of Finance, Corporate Controller
Dirk Lax
EMEA & APAC Assistant Controller
Molly Muir
Executive Assistant
Cindy Sosa
Administration and Billing

Digital Operations & Technology Group

Rajko Albrecht
System Administrator
Besion Arifaj
System Support Admin
Miranda Gould
License and Operations Manager
Nathan Hartley
Director of IT
Vincent Jiang
License and Operations Specialist
Ahmed Mohamed
System Support Admin
Kathy Newton
Licensing Administrator
Neil Richardson
Technical Lead, Corporate IT
Karly Taylor
Senior License and Operations Specialist
Anja Wunderlich
Licensing and Operations Specialist-EMEA

People Team

Rosemary Bishop
People Coordinator
Michael Harkness
Vice President of People
Dustie Montgomery
People Partner
Tonya Peek
Director of People Operations