Chief Executive Officer
Jean-Marc joined Spatial from Spatial’s parent company, Dassault Systèmes. Jean-Marc is responsible for company strategy and all of Spatial’s business operations, including sales, marketing, services, development and finance. He has 20 years of experience within Dassault Systèmes development, professional services and information systems organizations. Jean-Marc has held many senior-level R&D positions, including leading the development of the DS geometric modeler that is at the core of all DS PLM V5 solutions. As DS Director, Solutions & Services, Jean-Marc created a line of industry applications based on customer’s best practices. The applications addressed the specialized needs of each industry served by Dassault Systèmes PLM solutions. Early in his career, Jean-Marc worked as a software engineer, developing surface algorithms and geometry operators for CATIA v4.
Jean-Marc has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Numerical Analysis from Paris Sud 11 University and a PHD in Computer Science from Paris VI University.
Chief Financial Officer
Dave Fargnoli joined Spatial in 2021 as Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for providing strategic and financial leadership to the organization. Dave has held executive finance positions in public and private companies where he was responsible for corporate and operational finance and was a strategic catalyst for business and enterprise value expansion organically and through acquisitions. Dave has over 25 years of high tech experience in the Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) and Semiconductor industries, including multiple years of working outside of the US to manage international growth and globalize businesses.
Dave earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Vice President - R&D
Brendan joined Spatial in 2005 as an developer working on the 3D ACIS Modeler’s core algorithms. Later he moved to the ACIS Local Operations team, which he then managed. When DS decided to make the CGM modeling kernel available as an SDK, Brendan managed the team responsible for exposing this technology as a Spatial product. After several years directing the development activities of the 3D InterOp team, Brendan was tapped in 2021 to lead the R&D organization at Spatial.
Brendan holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Vice President - Worldwide Sales and Business Development
Frédéric Jacqmin joined Dassault Systèmes Spatial in 2012 as Director of Sales for the EMEA region. Prior to his appointment at Spatial, Frédéric held several Sales and Management positions at Trimble navigation, supervising distribution networks and actively developing new businesses, as part of the Company diversification strategy. He started his career in a startup, pioneer in 3D Laser Scanning, as Vice-President of Sales.
Frédéric holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and Surveying from the ESTP, Paris.
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