PLM Industry Veteran, John Jenkins, Joins CIMdata

Experienced PLM executive joins CIMdata as a Senior Business Development Manager.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 6 December 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that John Jenkins has joined the firm as a Senior Business Development Manager.

Mr. Jenkins is an accomplished enterprise account executive with 35 years of experience in engineering software sales, technology commercialization business development for research, engineering, and manufacturing organizations, and engineering research in academia. During his career, Mr. Jenkins has developed customer/partner relationships in several industries, including automotive (e.g., Ford, Honda, Visteon, BorgWarner, Garrett Motion, Meritor, Harley Davidson), aerospace (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, Gulfstream, Sikorsky, Embraer), industrial (Caterpillar, John Deere), consumer packaged goods/consumer products (e.g., Johnson & Johnson, Whirlpool), medical devices/pharmaceutical (e.g., Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Alcon) among others.

Most recently, Mr. Jenkins was a Strategic Enterprise Account Executive at Physna Inc., where he played a key role in that company securing over US$70 million in VC funding. Before being recruited to Physna, he served as the North American sales lead for Noesis Solutions, a Belgian Process Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) solution; Tridiagonal Solutions, a software developer and engineering consultancy based in Pune, India; and Optimal Solutions, developer of Sculptor, a real-time CFD mesh morpher.

Mr. Jenkins also created a company leveraging Lockheed Martin Skunk Works technology via the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. He acquired US$5 million in private equity investment for this company, leading to creating the first fully distributed CAD solution.

Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata, stated, “John is a proven veteran of the Simulation & Analysis (S&A) software and services industry. He brings a rich perspective and deep experience base that extends to the early days of CAD/CAE/PDM at General Electric, Lockheed Corporation, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. He has extensive global experience in the development, go-to-market planning, and deployment of advanced technologies and processes within many of the different industry sectors that CIMdata presently serves.”

Mr. Jenkins holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Design Engineering Technology (Mechanical Engineering) from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He has also spoken at several CAD/CAE/PLM-focused conferences in North and South America, Japan, and India.