Darius Lahoutifard

Darius Lahoutifard is CEO of Altadyn Corp. and non-executive Chairman of 01consulting. He is a serial entrepreneur in high tech industry with extensive management experience introducing and developing innovative concepts into the mainstream markets. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Robotics Engineering from École Centrale Paris.

After his studies, he entered Schulmberger CAD/CAM division Schlumberger in 1985, as an Application Engineer. he later moved to sales and sales management, and was appointed CEO of Applicon, a Schlumberger company, with a turn-over of $10M in 1990, at age of 28. Applicon was later acquired by UGS, now being Siemens PLM Software . In 1992 he joined Parametric Technology Corporation as Country Manager, France, Belgium, Switzerland, where he developed the business of this at-the-time US startup in Europe, growing his country’s revenue from $4M in 1992 to $27M in 1995.

Darius is also a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded several startups, raised more than $17M for these companies that he usually served as CEO. Among them, Genifer SA, got acquired by Saqqara Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, CA in 1998, PTC France has become a $150M business unit of PTC, 01consulting and Altadyn are growth companies.

In August 2011, Darius received the Person of the Year Award by the Association of Virtual Worlds, in recognition to his innovative vision for accessible technologies for Virtual Worlds.

In February 2012, Jean Michel Billaut, a French Internet Pioneer, interviewed Darius Lahoutifard about Altadyn's Virtual Events.

In April 2012, he appeared on BBC World News with an interview in BBC's Click program on innovative technologies, in which his company Altadyn was featured.

Honors & Awards

2011 Person Of The Year Award - Association of Virtual Worlds - August 2011

Entrepreneur of the month Southern California Venture Network - September 2009

An Internet Pioneer UNESCO - Paris - Photo Exhibition - June 2000

Patent on a Method of distributing Digital Photography. 1999

http://www.01consulting.net/04_company_a_managemt.htm

http://awards.associationofvirtualworlds.com/darius-lahoutifard/

http://news.hiperia3d.com/2008/12/interview-darius-lahoutifard-ceo-of.html

http://www.1888pressrelease.com/companies-launching-several-virtual-events-to-extend-the-rea-pr-186575.html

http://2b3d.wordpress.com/tag/certificate-in-virtual-worlds/

http://www.inc.com/ss/8-great-ways-utilize-virtual-events#1

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9714258.stm