Malcolm Davies, Ph.D., the CAD industry executive with the longest resume in the business, has resigned as CEO of
Gehry Technologies. He will be the new CEO of
Michelle Kaufmann Designs (MKD) of Oakland, California, an architecture firm that is moving into prefab sustainable design/build.
There is no word from Gehry Technologies at this time regarding a successor for Davies. The company was founded as a
spin-off of leading architecture firm
Gehry Partners, which has used mechanical CAD product CATIA from Dassault Systèmes to help design a number of
world-class signature architecture projects. Under Gehry Technologies the product became
Digital Project. It has sold in small quantities (numbers have never been released) to a few large architecture and construction firms. Last month Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
(SOM), one of America's largest architecture firms, announced
it would buy 100 copies of Digital Project, GT's largest sale to date. We expect an announcement in the near future about GT's next moves.
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Malcolm Davies Leaves Gehry Technologies for Sustainable Design/Build Innovator."
--RSN