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Develops object-oriented engineering systems.
Year Established: | 2001 |
Funding: | 7 |
Address: | Albuquerque, NM 87112 |
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Mail: | info@cometsolutions.com |
Company URL: | http://www.cometsolutions.com |
Comet Solutions, Inc. is a young, innovative and venture-backed company with tremendous potential for growth. If you have a passion for working in a fast-paced environment and delivering breakthrough technology solutions that enable our customers to achieve the benefits of early simulation, we'd like to talk to you. Comet offers competitive salary, stock options and benefits including full health coverage, with fully paid premiums for medical, dental and vision, as well as a retirement plan. How to Apply
For immediate consideration, please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@cometsolutions.com. Please indicate the position title in your subject line.
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Flywheel Ventures,Fort Washington Capital Partners Group
Comet's management team understands the challenges their customers face and the forces shaping new product development. The team has years of pioneering experience in the field of CAE software engineering, a track record for leading teams to success and direct customer experience. Daniel Meyer, President
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, Chairman, Founder, & CTO
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.
Don Tolle, Vice President - Business Strategy & Corporate Development
As Vice President - Business Strategy & Corporate Development, Don will work closely with strategic business partners and accelerate our global sales and marketing efforts. Don’s industry experience spans over 25 years at SDRC/EDS/UGS/Siemens including roles in CAE software product management, CAE software product development, product marketing, engineering consulting services, strategic partnerships and mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Tolle was most recently a Director of Marketing for the Siemens PLM Software portfolio of Digital Lifecycle Simulation solutions, which includes digital simulation applications provided within the NX, I-deas and Teamcenter environments. Don holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
Steve Sacro, Director of Sales
As Director of Sales, Steve will be responsible for managing Comet's sales process and building strong relationships with large manufacturing firms and engineering departments who are eager to bring simulation earlier in the design cycle. Before joining Comet Solutions, Mr. Sacro was most recently Senior Account Manager for MSC Software Corporation where he was responsible for new sales to large Fortune 50 accounts. His industry experience spans over 20 years in the CAD/CAM/CAE and PDM software industry with MSC Software Corporation and Unigraphics Inc. (now Siemens PLM Software). Steve has a Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Ball State University.
Geoffrey S. Flagg, Chief Financial Officer
Geoffrey is a CPA with 12 years of experience in public accounting and finance and accounting for both publicly-traded and privately-held businesses. He spent four years with the national accounting firm BDO Seidman, LLP where he was responsible for planning, performing and managing the financial statement audits and quarterly reviews of a variety of public and private companies in the alternative energy, software development, insurance and manufacturing industries, among others. Subsequently, he joined Rentech, Inc., a publicly-traded alternative energy company, as the Corporate Controller. He was promoted to Chief Financial Officer of the firm, during which time he led several private equity financing rounds, managed the implementation of new corporate insurance programs and new employee benefits programs including medical, dental and 401(k) plans, as well as guided the company to successful compliance with section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In addition, he was a key member of the business team that negotiated and closed a $73 million strategic acquisition, including a $30 million operating line of credit and a distribution agreement between the new subsidiary and a multi-national customer. He was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of the company and was responsible for all internal and external reporting functions including SEC reporting, all cash management and treasury functions and integration of accounting and financial systems of all subsidiaries including a corporate-wide Oracle ERP implementation. He holds his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Colorado at Denver, his CPA and is a member of the AICPA.