For Immediate Release

Marketing Contact:

Eric Howard
ehoward@simio.com
+1-412-265-5295

Simio Expands Staff

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – April 1, 2015. In Simio's continued effort to pursue Forward Thinking, they are proud to announce the appointment of several key individuals over the past months.

Shelly Barber is the Director of Business and Finance at Simio. She is responsible for financial planning, accounting and contracts for Simio LLC. Before joining Simio, she held the position of Controller at FoodMinds, a consulting firm based out of Chicago, IL. Prior, she served as a Consultant for a Professional Services firm, providing consulting services to small and mid-sized firms in a broad range of industries. Her expertise covers a range of industries including software, public accounting, eTrade, health and nutrition, health care, graphic design, non-profit, oil and gas, textile production, and entertainment. Contact: sbarber@simio.com

Eric Howard was hired as the Director of Marketing. He is responsible for the marketing activities for Simio LLC. Before joining Simio, he oversaw global marketing for several corporations.  He acquired his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business and is certified in Google AdWords and Google Analytics.  His expertise covers a range of marketing activities including digital marketing, social media marketing, brand management, and event planning. Contact: ehoward@simio.com

Gerrit Zaayman joins Simio as the Director of Scheduling Solutions. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering. He then went on to specialize in process and workflow simulation and completed advanced courses in process simulation, business process reengineering and artificial intelligence. As part of this process he helped to establishing the leading process, supply chain and workflow simulation business in South Africa providing the Siman and later the Arena simulation systems to the market. He then joined i2 Technologies where he later became the country manager for South Africa. There he was responsible for sales and delivery of i2’s leading supply chain planning and optimization software to large enterprises gaining experience in planning and optimization from the strategic design level down to detail scheduling. Gerrit also spend time at Softeon, a provider of warehouse management and optimization systems, as director of marketing where he gained valuable experience in the planning and optimization of warehouse operations. Contact: gzaayman@simio.com

The wealth of experience and industry knowledge from Shelly, Eric and Gerrit have already made them key additions to Simio" states Dennis Pegden, CEO and Founder of Simio. "We continue to grow as a company, and these new hires are essential to future growth."

About Simio LLC

Simio LLC is an enterprise software business delivering disruptive solutions uniquely positioned to improve the design and operation of our customers’ businesses. Simio software is based on ground-breaking Simulation technology and is trusted by decision makers in the world’s largest companies. We are an agile, fast-growing business solving the challenges of the 4th industrial revolution. For more information about Simio LLC and the Simio Forward Looking Digital Twin, visit www.simio.com.