Darius Lahoutifard
is founder and CEO of 01CONSULTING.
Darius has extensive senior management experience. He served as Managing Director of PTC France, where he multiplied revenue by 7 in three years. Before that he successfully ran Applicon's (now UGS) business in Southern Europe.

During his tenure at 01consulting he executed several strategic management missions such as the  turn-around of Think3's business in western Europe, from one of the less profitable regions to the fastest growing one, with high profitability, while ensuring 150% annual growth in revenue.

Darius is also an entrepreneur, having founded or co-founded 6 startups (including  01consulting, Altadyn, logiciel.org, Saqqara,...), raised over $16M funds for those companies and served them as CEO, in Europe, as well as in the US.

Darius is a graduate of ECOLE CENTRALE de PARIS.

Jack Horgan
Dr. Horgan is a Senior Analyst in partnership with 01consulting.
He has been an executive at several CAD companies over a 30 year career. He began his professional career at Applicon in the printed circuit board group. He then took over responsibility for the MCAD group during a period of explosive growth for Applicon. From there he co-founded and ran hardware and software development for Aries Technology, a pioneer in desktop Computer Aided Engineering. At MICROCADAM, he was responsible for setting up sales and marketing operations in the US and Europe as well as for managing finance and operations. He also matrix managed CSC’s Asian operations outside of Japan. From there he joined IBM to assist in the marketing and sales of ENOVIA and SmarTeam PLM products from Dassault Systemes. For the last few years he has been managing editor of online portal EDACafe, an EDA and MCAD industry analyst and a consultant. 

Dr. Horgan has advanced degrees in Physics and Computer Science from University of Massachusetts and Boston University.