Jean-Claude Ercolanelli

Jean-Claude is the Senior Vice President, Simulation and Tests Solutions and leads the Siemens Digital Industries Software Simulation and Test business segment. He also serves as the CEO for Siemens Industry Software NV. 

He contributes to Siemens Digital Industries Software strategy to become the market and technology leader in Simulation and Analysis. Jean-Claude and his teams work closely with customers and the global sales and customer services to drive the execution of all necessary research, innovation and development activities to grow the products relevance, their scope and footprint in the industries. 

Prior to Siemens, Jean-Claude joined CD-adapco in September 2005 to lead and manage the business growth of the CAD/PLM embedded solutions and in November 2006 he started leading and managing the STAR-CCM+ solution.  He came to CD-adapco from ANSYS Inc. where he held a series of increasingly responsible roles in business development and product management for almost 6 years. Prior to that, he was at ESI Group for 8 years in product management, technical support, and consulting. His first position after university studies was to serve as a nuclear design engineer at Framatome for 3 years.