Presenter

Rick Watkins is the Vice President of Appliance and Cloud Solutions at Altair. He holds Aerospace Engineering degrees from MIT and the University of Texas at Austin and brings over 20 years of experience in numerical simulation and high-performance computing. Rick began his career in structural design and optimization on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and as an Altair® HyperWorks® Application Engineer. For the past 15 years, he has been leading business development at Altair, delivering solutions that meet both technical and business-critical metrics.