Dr. Richard H. MacNeal - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Founder
Dr. MacNeal was a founding partner of the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (today called MSC.Software Corporation). His technical career encompasses state-of-the-art advances in numerous technologies including digital and analog techniques; airplane, helicopter, spacecraft and missile dynamics, and structural analysis. Dr. MacNeal developed most of the mathematical techniques and structural analysis procedures basic to the capabilities of the MSC/NASTRAN® computer program. He has more than 80 published technical papers and is widely recognized for his development of the Quad4 element, component mode synthesis and test criteria for testing finite elements. In May of 2000 Dr. MacNeal co-founded Schaeffer Automated Simulation, LLC, and directed a development effort that produced a NASTRAN product that was marketed under the name AI*NASTRAN®. More recently Dr. MacNeal was a founding member of The MacNeal Group, LLC, whose mission is to be "the supplier of advanced technology to engineers to ensure their mastery over product design simulation through the 21st Century".

Dr. Harry G. Schaeffer - President, Founder
Dr. Schaeffer is a noted expert in computational structural mechanics. He has been active as the developer of a commercial version of NASTRAN since 1985. He also wrote the original MSC/NASTRAN Primer in 1975 and collaborated with MSC Software to publish a new edition in the Summer of 2001. He spent a sabbatical year, 1997-1998 at the NASA Langley Research Center and participated in the Intellegent Synthesis Environment (ISE) developments in the Computational Structures Branch. In May of 2000 Dr. Schaeffer co-founded Schaeffer Automated Simulation, LLC, and managed a development effort that produced a NASTRAN product that was marketed under the name AI*NASTRAN®. More recently Dr. Schaeffer was a founding member of The MacNeal Group, LLC.

Mark Kenyon - Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Mr. Kenyon is a seasoned leader of CAE software business development efforts. As CEO of Schaeffer Automated Simulation he was responsible for directing the company's day to day business operations. During his fifteen years at MSC.Software he managed various business lines including, aerospace business, nonlinear business, consulting services, and European aerospace sales. Mark's broad range of business development skills are complimented by several years of experience in software development activities including software architecture for interactive modeling software while at MSC.Software and at PDA Engineering. During the time Mark spent at Schaeffer Automated Simulation he also made several significant technological contributions in the form of improvements in element and solver performance.

Ted Rose - Director of Technology, Founder
Mr. Rose is considered by the worldwide user base of MSC.Nastran customers as the leading technical engineer in all aspects of Nastran. His areas of expertise include DMAP, Superelements, Dynamics, and modeling of engineering problems. He was the Director of Technology at Schaeffer Automated Simulation, where he managed all aspects of software production and customer support. He spent fifteen years at MSC.Software in a variety of positions including Manager of Nastran training and support, and Staff Scientist-Dynamics. Prior to joining MSC.Software Ted was a member of the technical staff at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mike Krauski - Director of Sales, Founder
Mr. Krauski brought to the MacNeal Group his thirty years of experience in the computer-aided-engineering field, consisting of both hands-on experience in the application of FEA technology and many years of sales management expertise. Mike was the Director of Sales at Schaeffer Automated Simulation where he was responsible for developing and executing the company's sales and marketing strategies. A majority of Mike's career was spent at The MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) where he held positions as Director of Automotive Business Unit Sales and Midwest Regional Manager. While at MSC Mike built and managed a solid business that focused on supplying NASTRAN sales and support services to a diverse customer base composed of companies in the automotive OEM, automotive supplier, aerospace, farm equipment, construction equipment, and general manufacturing industry segments. Krauski also managed his own CAE sales and marketing services firm, and early in his career worked as a Structural Development Engineer for Bucyrus-Erie Company.