The CAD Society Announces Its 2004 Award for Leadership

Tony Affuso, president and CEO of UGS PLM Solutions, to receive award at COFES2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 11, 2004 � The CAD Society, a not-for-profit CAD industry association, today announced the winner of the 2004 CAD Society Award for Leadership. The recipient of this year�s award is Tony Affuso, president and CEO of UGS PLM Solutions, the product lifecycle management subsidiary of EDS. The award will be presented at a ceremony on April 3 at COFES2004: The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software, being held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The CAD Society Award for Leadership is awarded to an individual in the CAD industry whose outstanding technical and/or business leadership over the past year has significantly contributed to the benefit of CAD community.

�Tony Affuso was selected to receive this year�s award for his leadership in navigating one of the most complex transitions in the history of the CAD industry: the merging of UGS with SDRC,� said Joe Greco, president of the CAD Society. �Both companies had competing solutions in the CAD space (as well as the PDM arena). Affuso�s solution to gradually merge the two programs allowed their users an easier transition to a next generation platform � NX � a software product which had a significant impact on the company�s 13% year-over-year revenue growth in the second half of 2003. This was more than just a significant technical challenge. Affuso led this effort while considering a wide diversity of compelling customer requirements. His nomination was the one that stood out as clearly the most notable for this year�s Leadership Award.�

Prior to his firm�s acquisition by EDS, Affuso was president and CEO of Unigraphics Solutions Inc. (UGS), a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Affuso was engaged in the sales, service and development of software technology to support the automation of product engineering and manufacturing engineering processes.

The CAD Society Industry Awards recognize the contributions of individuals within the Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) and engineering software industry. CAD and related engineering software applications are used in the design of buildings, automobiles, consumer goods, and just about every manufactured product in the market today.

The CAD Society also presents awards in two other categories:

Community � For outstanding work in improving communication and developing community within the CAD industry. Past award recipients include Kristine Fallon, Amy Rowell, Ralph Grabowski and C.J. Shirk.

Lifetime � For a lifetime of outstanding technical and business contributions to the CAD industry. Past award recipients include Patrick Hanratty, Jason Lemon, Joel Orr and Carl Machover. The winner of this award will be announced at COFES2004, to be held April 1-4, 2004.

About UGS PLM Solutions 

UGS PLM Solutions, a leader in product data management, collaboration and product design software and services with 42,000 clients and more than 2.8 million seats of technology operating in the market, is the product lifecycle management (PLM) subsidiary of EDS. The company works collaboratively with its clients to create solutions enabling them to transform their process of innovation and thus begin to capture the promise of PLM. The integration of the former operations of companies including Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC), Engineering Animation Inc. (EAI) and UGS, UGS PLM Solutions has created some of the leading design, collaboration and product data management technologies that ultimately formed the foundation of the PLM industry. Today, the company is a family of one, building on three decades of leadership in continuing to be a pioneer in PLM. 

www.ugsplm.com

About The CAD Society 

The CAD Society is a not-for-profit industry association with the goal of fostering community and encouraging open communication among those who make their living within the CAD industry. The CAD Society is dedicated to improving the tools its members employ in order to get their jobs done. This is achieved by providing an open forum of communication which helps to shine a light on the practices of industry vendors. It has been a leader in creating interoperability guidelines that encourage software vendors to develop applications that can share data openly. Membership is free for individuals.

www.cadsociety.org

About COFES 

COFES: The Congress On the Future of Engineering Software

www.cofes.com

 

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