Martin Jones has joined Altair Engineering's Product Design (PD) consultancy division to lead the full development of a new urban electric vehicle (EV)

Cresset has appointed Dr Rob Scoffin as CEO of Cresset Group. Scoffin joins Cresset from CambridgeSoft and will replace Beatrice Leigh, who will now become non-executive chairman of the board

Panasas, a provider of high-performance scale-out NAS storage solutions, has appointed Bob Schoettle as chief marketing officer and Anthony Yeates as vice president of sales for EMEA

AccelerEyes has strengthened its management team, adding sales, marketing, and business development leadership with extensive experience and talent in the technical computing industry

RTS Life Science, a worldwide supplier of automated sample management and drug delivery testing systems, has appointed Richard Carpenter as the Mid-Atlantic sales manager

Accelrys has appointed Michael Piraino as senior vice president and chief financial officer, and Paul Burrin as senior vice president and chief marketing officer

Symyx has appointed John Senaldi as senior vice president of Symyx and president of its High Productivity Research (HPR) business unit

Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL) has added Dax Morgan to its LIMS sales and implementation team

IDBS has expanded its Asia Pacific presence with new centres in China and Australia, providing direct local support and training, along with sales and business development for the entire portfolio of IDBS products

Chris Denly has been appointed as sales manager, maths and simulation at Adept Scientific