Keram Nazari is the Chief Executive Officer of Applied CAx, bringing over three decades of expertise in digital engineering, strategic sales, and federal market capture.  

A proven leader, his career is distinguished by securing major software and services contracts across the DoD, federal civilian, and A&D sectors. Notably he has scaled businesses at pace, including leading one organization to more than $200M in TCV within three years.  

Keram’s technical expertise spans PLM, MBSE, low-code automation, and AI-powered simulation. He has a proven track record of building high-trust partnerships with leading federal and commercial organizations and systems integrators. He holds master’s degrees in Applied Mechanics and Applied Mathematics from the Polytech Nice, University of Nice, France.  

George Laird, Phd, PE, is Founder & Co-Manager at Applied CAx. Dr. Laird is the author of 40+ publications on wear, fracture mechanics and finite element analysis, and the “Abrasion-Resistant Cast Iron Handbook.”

Dr. Laird has 16+ years of industrial LS-DYNA/Femap/CFD experience, with his doctorate in engineering mechanics (fracture and fatigue). His scientific research focused on structure property relationships for composite materials, ceramics and ferrous/non-ferrous materials.

Other FEA specializations include seismic analysis of large vessels per ASCE 4-98 and ASME Section VIII, Div. 2 requirements, turbine burst containment, drop-test analysis, composite analysis (stress and thermal) and transient-dynamic stress analysis, elastic-plastic analysis of plastics, elastomers and foam materials and general analysis of a wide range of consumer, automotive, aviation and medical products. His expertise in LS-DYNA has led to several publications and his short annual course “LS-DYNA Analysis for Structural Mechanics.” Case studies on LS-DYNA, FEA and CFD service can be found at www. PredictiveEngineering.com.

Since the acquisition of CD-adapco by Siemens PLM Software in early 2016, Dr. Laird has added STAR-CCM to his arsenal of CFD tools.

His team of engineers at Predictive Engineering brings together expertise on materials and mechanics, and a deep understanding of structures whether under fluid or thermal loading (CFD consulting services) or due to impact or crash (LS-DYNA consulting services) or general FEA for vibration, seismic or stress (FEA consulting services) to help clients build better structures.

Jamie Griffis is the Chief Technology Officer & Co-Manager at Applied CAx. A seasoned Teamcenter Architect with a history of working in the mechanical and industrial engineering and aerospace industry, her specialty is Teamcenter implementations and upgrades, data migrations, and CAD Integrations (mainly SolidEdge but also SolidWorks). She is deeply familiar with infrastructure architecture for new Teamcenter implementations and CAD integrations. She was CAD manager for 8+ years, implementing and managing 2D/3D CAD and Teamcenter in multiple international sites and migrating all legacy engineering data to a Teamcenter database.

Additionally, she implemented upgrades and updates of Teamcenter, Solid Edge and AutoCAD Mechanical while providing user support and troubleshooting, writing procedures and establishing workflows. She also led processes and conventions for design, drafting and data management. She oversaw the training of engineering, document control, project management and production control departments on Teamcenter and Solid Edge, control of standard part creation and documentation and control of CAD operation manuals and documentation.

Jesse Binford is the Chief Solution Architect & Partner at Applied CAx. Jesse has a background in IT server management and infrastructure, as well as business analysis and software development.

He has 13 years of experience with PLM, and his specialties are Teamcenter Implementations, Upgrades, Data Migrations, ERP Integration, and Teamcenter customizations.

Joachim Langenwalter is an Executive Advisor of Applied CAx. With 20 years of experience in the Electronic Design Automation industry, his expertise includes EE architecture, ECU, SoC, operating systems, and automotive application development. His work has involved leading software deliveries for cockpit and autonomous driving, overseeing hardware and software engineering across 14 car brands, and building partnerships with Qualcomm, Amazon, Foxconn, and Vector.

Today, he serves as the Executive Advisor and Founder of TMT CoPilots, as well as an advisor for software, hardware, AI, and data-driven engineering.