As President of Comet Solutions, Dan Meyer heads P&L and business operations activities, including sales, alliances, marketing, and company strategy. Mr. Meyer has been on the forefront of advances in new product development for 15 years. His expertise, experience and background is ideally suited to transform the company from an early-stage startup to a market leader which successfully helps its customers succeed thru early simulation. He has over 10 years executive experience in this industry with a concentration on ECAD, MCAD, and PLM. Most recently, he was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for think3, where he repositioned the company to break open the midmarket PLM sector, leading to the highest revenue growth for any company in the industry. He had previously served as CEO of Copernus, an enterprise collaboration software company. Prior to Copernus, he was Director of Worldwide Marketing Programs for SDRC and held marketing and engineering management positions at Synopsys. He holds a BA in economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Malcolm Panthaki leads technology and product activities for Comet Solutions. In his role as company Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Panthaki drives product vision, product strategy and product planning and he is closely involved in sales, engineering and customer implementation activities.Mr. Panthaki has been at the cutting edge of CAE software development since 1987. He started his career as a CAE software engineer at an engineering consulting firm, after which he moved to ABAQUS Inc., where he led the effort to complete an interactive environment for ABAQUS/CAE. Mr. Panthaki left ABAQUS in 1994 when he clearly saw that customers using the variety of tools from different vendors were unable to conduct simulation easily or early enough due to the complexities of a typical CAE environment. He set off to build a technology framework that could handle the complexity of CAE data, processes and results in one common data model. Mr. Panthaki provided software consulting services for several high-profile CAE projects at Sandia National Labs, NASA and other organizations where he helped them achieve greater use to simulation, early and often in the product development process. He formed and funded Comet Solutions in 2001 to productize and market this technology and deliver software solutions enabling early simulation to transform the product development process. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in India, and an MS in Structural Engineering and Computer Graphics from Cornell University.

Stephen Fallon leads worldwide sales for Comet Solutions. Mr. Fallon brings to this role over 20 years of experience where he successfully led sales initiatives in the United States, Europe, Africa, Japan, Russia, Central/South America, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Prior to joining Comet, Mr. Fallon was Executive Director, World Wide Sales for Cohesia where he was responsible for establishing strategic/corporate repositioning and reorganization, increasing revenue while decreasing costs. Cohesia is a leading provider of web-based engineering requirements flow-down solutions for the management of part-specific characteristics and design data. Mr. Fallon was a key member of the corporate turnaround team and led the team to its 2007 merger with Powerway. Stephen spent over 5 years with Unify Corporation, leading provider of business application platform solutions, as Director of Sales, International Distribution Operations. Throughout his career, he has achieved many successes managing business development, developing partnerships with distributors, implementing rollout of new products, leading sales teams, developing product presentations, demonstrations and product evaluations. Stephen is a native of Scotland and began his career as a Mathematics teacher.

Linnea Mays leads financial management, human resources and administrative activites for Comet Solutions. Ms. Mays is a CPA with over 18 years of experience in public accounting and finance for closely held businesses. She has spent much of her career in Big 4 accounting firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, where she held the position of senior tax manager with specialties of tax planning and business planning for small to middle market companies. Subsequently she held a Vice President position at Fifth Third Bank specializing in taxation, benefits and exit strategies for closely held business owners. Most recently she has held the position of Chief Financial Officer for NeoSynergy, a software and technology integration firm. She holds her undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Cincinnati, her CPA, a PFS, and is a member of the AICPA.

John Skinner leads the software engineering, technical documentation and quality assurance teams at Comet Solutions. Mr. Skinner has over 15 years of commercial software development experience ranging from early stage start-ups to the Fortune 500. He has a proven track record in developing state-of-the-art desktop software using agile principles including SCRUM and XP. Previous to Comet Solutions, Mr. Skinner was instrumental in leading the development of multiple products at Configuresoft, a PC and server configuration and security software vendor. During his tenure there, Configuresoft grew from an early stage start-up to winning Best of Show TechED 2005 and 2006 as well as the LinuxWorld Finalist award. Mr. Skinner is a frequent presenter of development methodologies and served on the Microsoft ISV round table. Prior to Configuresoft, Mr. Skinner held senior management roles in software development companies such as Taskforce, IDX Systems and Andersen Consulting. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute.