Haluk Menderes joins ESI Group as Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing Worldwide Operations
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Paris, January 8, 2007 - ESI Group (ISIN FR0004110310), a pioneer and world leading solution provider in virtual prototyping and manufacturing processes, announces the appointment of Haluk Menderes as Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing, Worldwide Operations. He is reporting to Vincent Chaillou, President Product Operations and COO ESI Group.
Haluk Menderes joins ESI Group with more than 20 years of experience in Sales and Marketing and General Management in the CAE and enterprise simulation software industries. Before assuming this position, Haluk Menderes has served in several executive roles at MSC.Software including Senior Director of European Services, Vice President and General Manager of EMEA Field Operations and Vice President of Automotive Industry. Before the acquisition through MSC.Software in 1999, Haluk Menderes was the European Vice President of MARC Analysis Research Corporation. Haluk Menderes holds a master's degree in Aerospace engineering and worked for MBB and IABG (German Aerospace Industry) during 6 years in the engineering CAE department before joining MARC in 1988. He is based in Munich, Germany.
About ESI Group
ESI Group is a world-leading supplier, and a pioneer of digital simulation software for prototyping and manufacturing processes that take into account the physics of materials. ESI Group has developed an extensive suite of coherent, industry oriented applications to realistically simulate a product's behavior during testing, to fine-tune manufacturing processes in accordance with desired product performance, and evaluate the environment's impact on product performance. ESI Group's products, which have a proven track record in manufacturing and have been combined in multi-trade value chains, represent a unique collaborative and open virtual engineering solution known as the Virtual Try-Out Space (VTOS), enabling virtual prototypes to be improved in a continuous and collaborative manner. This integrated protocol allows all the company's solutions to work with each other and with applications developed by independent software vendors. By significantly reducing costs and development lead times and enabling product/process synergies, VTOS solutions offer major competitive advantage by progressively eliminating the need for physical prototypes during product development. The company generated sales of 62.2m in 2005, employs over 500 high-level specialists worldwide covering more than 30 countries. ESI Group is listed in Eurolist compartment C of Euronext Paris. For further information, visit www.esi-group.com.
ESI Group - Press Relations
Nathalie David-Franc
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