Jeff Ray talks about his time at Solidworks, briefly

Autobiographically

 

A brief article (New at the top: Jeff Ray is chief executive officer at Ellucian) in The Washington Post newspaper carries a brief autobiography by Jeff Ray, the former ceo of Solidworks:

[The experience (at IBM) helped me ultimately land at a company called SolidWorks, where I was named chief executive.] The company had been wildly successful. But I felt that we were reaching the end of what the platform could do and we needed to work on the next-generation technologies. The hardest thing to change is a successful company.

It’s easy to change when you’ve been diagnosed with a challenging disease or some kind of event or crisis is forced upon you. It’s very hard to force change on people when you’re doing well. But that’s exactly the time that you should start questioning what you’re doing.

He went on to become the ceo of  Ellucian.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-at-the-top-jeff-ray-is-chief-executive-officer-at-ellucian/2014/10/25/0ef8f7c0-5ae1-11e4-8264-deed989ae9a2_story.html?wprss=rss_business

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Neil]

Funny that's not how I remember it...

[JonBanquer]

The CAD business is now on life support. With no venture capital to solve real world problems, the CAD industry is in deep "s". I'm told venture capitalists think CAD is a solved problem. I frequently talk with CADCAM software architects who agree with me that it's not even close to a solved problem. I fear what's next is a race to the bottom as new start ups go after SolidWorks, Inventor, etc. with nothing really new but a cheap price.

Jon Banquer
CADCAM Technology Leaders group.