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George Shanks has been appointed CEO of Dezineforce, the provider of advanced design optimisation tools. Former CEO Dr Peter Collins moves to commercial director and will continue to serve on the board

OCF, the UK HPC integrator, has appointed former SGI and ClusterVision sales specialist Georgina Ellis as sales executive, with a primary focus on maintaining and growing OCF's presence in the academic research community

Symyx has expanded its European operation with several new appointments, including the promotion of Julie Page to head the European office

Platform Computing has appointed John Egan to its board of directors. Egan will use his experience with EMC and VMware to provide guidance to Platform

Platform Computing, a leader in grid and cloud computing software, has appointed Ram Gupta to its board of directors.

Platform Computing has appointed Randy Clark as chief marketing officer. In this role, Clark will be responsible for Platform's worldwide marketing and will also be focusing on the company's cloud computing initiative

Kevin Shea has joined Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) as vice president of engineering, where he will lead product development of Star-P

William R Wing has joined Darkstrand as chief technology officer, bringing more than 20 years of experience in the research community to the company

InforSense founder Professor Yike Guo is to move from CEO to the position of chief technology officer and head of innovation, with David Bennett being promoted to chief executive with immediate effect

LMS International has appointed Stefaan Goossens as VP of simulation, and Bruno Massa as VP of strategic planning and corporate communications