Scott Prey, President and CEO  

Scott Prey has more than 27 years of experience in aerospace engineering and software development. In his role as President and CEO of Procelerate Technologies, Scott works closely with customers and his executive team to communicate the business value of the Vdot^™ solution to the automotive and aerospace industries. In addition, Scott is responsible for Procelerate's business operations.

Prior to Procelerate Technologies, Scott managed a group that developed innovative analysis and integration software which provided significant man-hour reductions in many engineering processes and tools as part of The Boeing Company's Lean Engineering organization. These include improvements in aeroelasticity, dynamic loads, ground loads, fatigue analysis and aerodynamic data modeling. Scott was also program manager on the Smart Product Model DARPA government contract technology fund, which spawned the idea for Vdot.

Scott has won numerous professional awards, including the McDonnell Douglas Quality Achievement award, the AIAA Technical Management award, the AIAA Young Professional award, and the Boeing Meritorious Invention Award for the work leading to Vdot.

Scott holds bachelor's of science and master's of science degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a master's degree in engineering management from Washington University.

Nima Bakhtiary, Business Development  

Nima Bakhtiary brings more than 15 years of experience in enterprise software sales and business development specializing in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), and Lean and Just-in-Time manufacturing and processes.

Prior to Procelerate, Nima was Practice Director responsible for Unisys Microsoft Business Solutions Practice and VP of Vertical Markets for QAD. Nima joined QAD from RiverOne, Inc., a high tech industry supply chain software provider, where he served as president and chief operating officer. Prior to his tenure at RiverOne, Nima served as executive vice president at Adexa, a provider of supply chain management solution. Nima also served as Director of Product Management for MSC Software, a leading developer of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software.

Damian Yanez, Vice President of Products and Services  

Damian Yanez has more than 25 years of experience in engineering analysis and software development for numerous projects including military and commercial aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, laser communications, and electronic systems, and was a principal engineer/scientist in Boeing's Lean Engineering group. In that role, Damian led efforts to create key engineering tools and processes that dramatically reduced manpower and cycle time in analyzing product configurations. He was instrumental in providing vision and requirements for these applications as well as authoring modules of these tools. In his current role at Procelerate Technologies, Damian serves as the domain expert for Vdot, providing a clear user perspective, requirements and innovation in UI design. He also is a specialist at helping customers identify, capture, deploy and improve their best practices.

Damian holds a bachelor's of science degree in aerospace engineering and a master's of science degree in engineering mechanics from the University of Missouri, Rolla.

Jeff Osborn, Vice President of Development  

Jeff Osborn brings over 20 years of experience developing software, including large-scale distributed object architecture design and implementation. Through his experience as chief architect on many large projects, he has a thorough understanding of object oriented architectures and design patterns. In particular, Jeff has solid Java design and implementation knowledge.

At The Boeing Company, Jeff gained extensive experience in OOA/OOD and distributed object oriented architectures. As part of Boeing's Bold Stroke project, he was instrumental in the discovery and design of key building blocks. He developed threading models and threading design patterns for the distributed object system. He also participated in designing the TAO CORBA orb's real-time Scheduler and Event Channel.

Prior to Boeing, Jeff served as chief architect at Computerized Medical Systems, where he led his team in developing an imaging and contouring workstation in Java. Before that, Jeff developed several distributed object systems, including the design and implementation of a custom servlet for HTTP tunneling of RMI while at Edward Jones.

Jeff holds bachelor's of science degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering, as well as a master's of science degree in electrical engineering, from the University of Missouri, Columbia.