Vice Presidency for Short at HKS
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Apr 15, 2002
Hibbitt, Karlsson and Sorensen (HKS), maker of the Abaqus suite of software for advanced mechanical simulation, has appointed Dr Ken Short to the position of Vice President of Marketing.
Hibbitt, Karlsson and Sorensen (HKS), maker of the Abaqus suite of software for advanced mechanical simulation, has appointed Dr Ken Short to the position of Vice President of Marketing.
In this role, Dr Short will be responsible for the continued growth and direction of the company's marketing and product management functions.
Dr Short comes to HKS with over a decade of engineering, marketing and business development experience in the mechanical simulation area.
He has held a variety of positions with organisations including Rolls-Royce, PDA, Rasna and PTC.
Most recently, Dr Short served as Vice President, Technical Marketing at PTC and was responsible for Pro/Mechanica and Pro/Engineer simulation products.
He holds a BEng in civil engineering from the University of Wales and a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
"Ken brings a technically grounded marketing dimension to HKS", said Mark Goldstein, President and CEO at HKS.
"We are delighted to have him lead our marketing and product management activities and help guide us as we provide simulation-driven design solutions to the virtual prototyping market".
"HKS has an enviable reputation for technology, quality and customer support", said Dr Short.
"I'm eager to join an organisation with such a clear focus on developing innovative, mission-critical simulation software for the product design community".
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