The NAFEMS Americas Planning subcommittee is tasked with the development of the content for in-person and online event offerings for the Americas region. Content development is a complex, time intensive scope of work starting with theme development for an event, all the way through submission reviews and track development.

Chair: Max Monn - Saint Gobain

Co Vice-Chair: Sean Teller - Principal Engineer, Veryst engineering

Michael Balchanos - Research Engineer II, Georgia Institute of Technology

Kedar Malusare - Advanced Applications Engineer - Siemens DISW

Achuth Munnannur - Technical Advisor, Cummins

Satchit Ramnath - Research Specialist, The Ohio State University

Majid Tabesh - MBSE Systems Engineer, Ford

Todd Mcdevitt -Topology

Liangkai Ma - Dow

Mark Dickson - Regional Sales Director - Ansys

Sudharsan Kalidoss - GE Research

Gustavo Lopez Vazquez - MDA Corporation

Co Vice-Chair: Dipak Patil - Principal Structural Analyst, Team Lead - FEA, Harsco Rail

Neil Bishop - Hexagon

Ben Folk Jr. - HPC\DC-MLS admin, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Satheesh Kandasamy - Industry Process Expert Director, SIMULIA Transportation and Mobility – Propulsion & Performance

John Nam - Ford

Onkar Mande - ESTECO

Yves Ketemwabi Shamavu - Microsoft

Delli Ganesh Venkateshan - Technical Specialist – Thermal and Fluid Science - Atmus

Sumit Gundyal, Siemens
Ashreet Mishra, Owens Corning.

Rabah Hadjit - ESI.

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