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Philippe Laufer

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Philippe Laufer has led Dassault Systèmes’ global brands since2020 and customer-engagement teams since2021. He joined CATIA R&D in1985, worked on Boeing777 and automotive programs, led CATIA shape-design R&D from1996 and global R&D from2006, and became CATIA CEO in2012. He earned mechanical-engineering and production-automation qualifications from École Centrale de Nantes and ENSTA and holds a systems-engineering doctorate.