Ravi Rangan

Ravi Rangan joined Centric as Chief Technology Officer through the acquisition of Product Sight Corporation in 2006. Ravi is responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy. Ravi is a highly acclaimed expert in PLM technology including enterprise-scale product structure and configuration management, search-based applications and process-driven system design automation in automotive, aerospace, high technology and medical device industries.

Ravi was the CTO of Product Sight Corporation, a company he co-founded to address process-aware product lifecycle applications for the PLM market. He previously served as a Worldwide Corporate Director for SDRC’s ExperTeam program (now UGS), and worked as the Founding Technical Director of SDRC’s Enterprise Solution Center and on-site Metaphase solution architect with The Boeing Company’s “Define and Control Aircraft Configuration/ Manufacturing Resource Management (DCAC/MRM) Program”, providing leadership to the architecture, design, and implementation phases of the program.

Ravi has published extensively, led symposia, panels and tutorials in the areas of business process modeling, systems architecture, design automation, and knowledge management. He serves on the Executive Steering Committee of the American Society Of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) CIE Division, and is a founding member of the ASME’s JCISE editorial board, and a reviewer for several journals. Ravi completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, specializing in engineering information management, from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 and was inducted into its Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni in 2008.