Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 1:54 PM
Plant design software vendor AVEVA has promoted computer graphics industry pioneer Rob Glasier to Executive Vice President for the Americas, effective July 2, 2007.
Glasier will be responsible for all of AVEVA's software and services business across all the Process, Power, Marine and related industries in the Americas region, from the company's Houston office. Prior to this appointment, Glasier was responsible for AVEVA Americas’ Marine business for the shipbuilding and offshore industry, as well as its asset and information lifecycle management business.
Glasier came to AVEVA as Head of Business Development and part owner of RealityWave Inc., which was acquired by AVEVA. RealityWave technology is now part of AVEVA’s NET Portal, VNET, which has seen considerable growth in the last two years.
Glasier has extensive experience in sales, marketing, development, and senior management. He was with Intergraph Corporation for many years, running Intergraph’s Process, Power, and Building Solutions (PDS) Division; Intergraph’s Shipbuilding Division; the Information Management Systems Group; and the Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Division. Rob was also vice president of Corporate Marketing for Intergraph. Before joining Intergraph, Rob was Sales Manager, and then Product Manager for Unigraphics. He also worked at General Motors and Boeing, among other corporations. Rob holds a BSME (summa cum laude), and is a member of several trade and industry associations. He is past Chairman of the National Computer Graphics Association; and was inducted into the Computer Graphics Pioneers of SIGGRAPH, being considered one of the founders of the computer graphics industry.
--RSN