Mr. Calderoni has served as interim Chief Executive Officer and President of Citrix Systems, Inc., a multinational software company (“Citrix”), since 2021. He also previously served in this position from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Calderoni has also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Citrix since 2019 and previously served as Executive Chairman from 2015 to 2018. Prior to Citrix, Mr. Calderoni served as Chief Executive Officer of Ariba, Inc., a software and information technology services company (“Ariba”) from 2001 until it was acquired by SAP AG, a publiclytraded software and IT services company, in 2012, and then continued as Chief Executive Officer of Ariba following the acquisition until 2014. Mr. Calderoni also served as a member of the global managing board at SAP AG between 2012 and 2014 and as President of SAP Cloud from 2013 to 2014. Prior to Ariba, Mr. Calderoni held senior finance roles at Apple Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) and served as Chief Financial Officer of Avery Dennison Corporation (“Avery Dennison”).

Mr.Calderoni currently serves as the Chairman (since 2015) and a member of the Board of Directors of Citrix (2014-present) and on the Board of Directors of KLA Corporation, a capital equipment company (2007-present). He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of LogMeIn, Inc., a software company (2017-2020) and Juniper Networks, Inc., a network cybersecurity company (2003-2019). 

Ms. Scherer served as Senior Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Plantronics, Inc. (“Plantronics”), an audio communications equipment manufacturer from 1998 until her retirement in 2012, and as Vice President, Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer from 1997 to 1998. Prior to Plantronics, Ms. Scherer held various executive management positions spanning 11 years in the disk drive industry, was an associate with The Boston Consulting Group, and was a member of the corporate finance team at ARCO in Los Angeles.

Ms. Scherer currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Netgear, Inc., a multinational computer networking company (2011-present), and Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc., a developer and supplier of equipment for the semiconductor industry (2015-present). Prior to her retirement, Ms. Scherer served as a director of Keithley Instruments, a publicly traded test and measurement company, from 2004 to 2010.

Mr. Frankola served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cloudera, Inc., an enterprise data cloud company (“Cloudera”), from 2012 until 2021, and has served as a Strategic Advisor to Cloudera, since 2021. From 2010 to 2012, Mr. Frankola served as Chief Financial Officer of Yodlee, Inc., a data aggregation and data analytics platform company (“Yodlee”). Prior to Yodlee, Mr. Frankola served as Chief Financial Officer of Ariba. Mr. Frankola has held various senior positions in financial and business management at several companies, including IBM and Avery Dennison. Mr. Frankola previously served on the Board of Directors of ActivIDentity Corporation, a credentials management and authentication company.

Mr. Frankola currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Cvent Holding Corp, a market-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider (2021-present).

Dr. Gallimore has been the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering at the University of Michigan, a public university, since 2016. He has been the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan since 2015. He has held various positions of increasing responsibility at the University of Michigan since joining the institution in 1992. Dr. Gallimore has served on several NASA and US Department of Defense boards and studies, including as a member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of The Institute for Defense Analyses. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics and was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2019. Dr. Gallimore’s primary research interests include electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics and space plasma simulation. He has extensive design and testing experience with a number of electric propulsion devices. Dr. Gallimore has served on the Board of Directors of Bechtel Corporation since 2021.

Dr. Gallimore currently serves on the Board of Directors of PagerDuty, Inc., a cloud computing company (2020-present).

Ms. Dorchak spent over thirty years in operating roles in the technology industry prior to herretirement in 2013. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President and General Manager ofGlobal Business for Spansion Inc., a flash memory manufacturer (“Spansion”), from 2012 to 2013.Prior to Spansion, Ms. Dorchak served as Chief Executive Officer of VirtualLogix, Inc. from 2009 to 2010, when it was acquired by Red Bend Software, and as Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsyc Software from 2006 to 2008. She also served in various roles at Intel Corporation (“Intel”) from2001 to 2006, including as Vice President and COO Intel Communications Group, Vice President and General Manager Intel Broadband Products Group, and Vice President and General Manager Intel Consumer Electronics Group. Before Intel, Ms. Dorchak served as Chairman and CEO at Value America, an e-retailer. Before Value America, Ms. Dorchak served in various roles, including General Manger PC Direct, at IBM.

Ms. Dorchak currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Wolfspeed, Inc., previously named CREE, Inc., a developer of wide bandgap semiconductors (2020-present) and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc., a semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company (2019-present). She previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of Viavi Solutions Inc., a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions (2019-2021), Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., a multinational supplier of computer networking products (2009-2020), Energy Focus Inc., a developer of energy-efficient LED lighting systems and controls (2015-2019), and Quantenna Communications, a communication device company (2018-2019).

Mr. Hovsepian has been the Chairman of the Board since May 2019. He previously served as the Lead Independent Director of the Board from 2014 through 2019 and as the non-executive Chairman from 2014 until 2016. Mr. Hovsepian has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Indigo Ag, Inc., an agricultural technology company, since 2020. He has also served as an Executive Partner at Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital firm focused on healthcare, since 2018. Previously, in 2017, Mr. Hovsepian served as Chief Executive Officer of Synchronoss Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications software and services company. Mr. Hovsepian served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Intralinks Holdings, Inc., a global provider of services and software, from 2011 to 2017. Mr. Hovsepian joined Novell, Inc., a software company (“Novell”), in 2003 and served as its Chief Executive Officer, from 2005 to 2011. Prior to Novell, from 2000 to 2003, Mr. Hovsepian worked in the venture capital industry. He started his career at IBM and served in several executive positions over approximately 16 years He currently serves on the Board of Directors of two private companies, Valo Health, Inc. and ECi Software Solutions.

Mr. Hovsepian currently serves on the Board of Directors of Skillsoft Corp., an educational technology company (2018-present). Previously, Mr. Hovsepian served on the Board of Directors of Pegasystems Inc., a cloud software company (2019-2021) and ANN Inc., a woman’s clothing retailer (1998-2015), where he also served as the non-executive chairman (2005-2015).

Member of the Compensation Committee Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee Chair of the Strategic Partnerships and Transactions Committee.

Julie Murphy joined Ansys as Vice President, Human Resources in August 2019. Prior to joining Ansys, Murphy was the Chief Human Resources Officer for Tradesmen International, a construction labor support company, where she transformed human resources to a strategic competency with modern HR information tools and technology, implemented a corporate talent acquisition team and aligned total rewards with business objectives. She previously worked for such companies as Westinghouse, Heinz, Blue Cross Blue Shield and PWC, where she led business improvements through large-scale culture change, organizational transformation and business process reengineering.

Andy Kincheloe leads Ansys’ sales, channel, and ACE operations as well as global marketing. Prior to joining Ansys in 2021, Andy was a partner at McKinsey & Company. He also led pricing, financial services, and sales operations as a senior vice president at Dell. He holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a JD from Harvard Law School.

A simulation industry expert, Walt Hearn leads Ansys’ global sales and customer excellence teams. Walt began at Ansys in 2007, starting as an account manager and quickly grew his responsibilities in sales management. From 2019 to 2022, he led Ansys’ largest and fastest-growing region, the Americas. Walt has led all of the company's go-to-market segments, from our channel partners to territory accounts to our largest enterprise customers. He has personally overseen some of the largest contracts in company history and has led the modernization of our vertical strategy.

Shane Emswiler, who joined Ansys as a result of the Ansoft acquisition in 2008, is the senior vice president of products. He has been in the simulation industry for more than 15 years, bringing significant experience to his current role. He previously led the Physics Business Unit and before that, the Electronics Business Unit, after transitioning from chief financial officer of Ansoft.