Dr. Dirk A. Dirk Zwemer, President, directs InterCAX’s business development and marketing efforts. Dr. Zwemer has over thirty years experience in the electronics industry with Bell Labs, Exxon, ITT, SRI Consulting and other organizations. He is the author of three patents and multiple technical papers, trade journal articles, and market research reports. Prior to joining InterCAX, he held positions as VP Technology, VP Operations, and President of AkroMetrix LLC, a leader in mechanical test equipment and services for the global electronics industry, where he was actively engaged in market channel development, advertising and tradeshows, and licensing. He has been part-time General Manager of InterCAX LLC since its inception, in charge of financial, administrative and business development activities and joined InterCAX on a full-time basis in January, 2008. He received a PhD in Chemical Physics from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Dr. Russell S. Peak, Chief Technical Officer, is Associate Director and Senior Researcher in the GIT Product & Systems Lifecycle Management Center. He specializes in knowledge-based methods for modeling & simulation, standards-based product lifecycle management (PLM) frameworks, and knowledge representations that enable complex system interoperability. Dr. Peak originated the multi-representation architecture (MRA)—a collection of patterns for CAD-CAE interoperability—and composable objects (COBs)—a non-causal object-oriented knowledge representation. This work provided a key conceptual foundation for executable parametrics in SysML. Since 1997 he has been principal investigator on ~25 projects with sponsors including Boeing, IBM, Lockheed, NASA, Rockwell Collins, Sandia, Shinko (Japan), TRW Automotive, US DoC (NIST) and DoD. He has authored over 80 publications (including several Best Paper awards), holds several patents, and is an active member in ASME and INCOSE.

Mr. Manas Bajaj, Lead Researcher, joined InterCAX full-time in Dec 2007. He has been involved with InterCAX since its beginning and worked as a part-time co-op from 2005-2007. His industrial and research experience spans over 7 years across several organizations—NIST, NASA, Rockwell Collins, IBM, Sandia, Lockheed Martin, and InterCAX in USA; and Hindustan Shipyard Limited and Mazagaon Dock Limited in India. He is currently finishing his PhD in Mechanical Engineeriing from Georgia Tech where he also earned his MS in the same discipline. He earned his BTech in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture from IIT Kharagpur, India. His research interests are in the realm of simulation-based design, knowledge representation, and open standards-based product/system lifecycle management frameworks. He has authored several publications, including those that won the Robert E. Fulton best paper award at ASME CIE 2005 and the session best paper award at Semicon West 2003. Mr. Bajaj serves as a technical team member at PDES Inc. consortium, representing both InterCAX and Georgia Tech. He has been actively involved in Georgia Tech contributions to the OMG SysML specification.