Brad J. Rozon Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, On, Ca

Canonsburg, Pa, Us

Canonsburg, Pa, Us

Reports to the Vice President Fluids Business Unit• Manage a team of 11 Engineers & Scientists that create product documentation for the full suite of Fluids products• Responsible for SR&ED ITC Technical Reporting, ~$2M annual value• Engages BU R&D Directors to deploy SR&ED Reporting best practices, project eligibility self-assessments across all BUs and R&D Departments in Canada• Partners with senior management and other stakeholders to deliver the required Tax Reporting to support ANSYS’s Investment Tax Credit claims• Facilitates the periodic review of SR&ED project management across all Business Units and R&D departments in Canada.• Integrate R&D Teams from acquired companies into SR&ED reporting and best practices.• Assist VP, Tax & Treasury with review of Tax Incentives and Canadian Government R&D Grants programs available in Canada.• Directs the response to CRA audit findings, corrective and improvement actions, working across all business units and Product R&D Departments• Coordinates and reviews Tax Filings T661 Technical Reports for CRA reporting requirement compliance. • Delivers SR&ED Projects Reports to Accounting in a timely manner for Canadian Tax Filings• Assist and/or guide R&D Directors, Senior Managers and/or R&D Staff - during technical reviews with the CRA - with project eligibility self-assessments - how to present arguments for SR&ED eligibility in a clear and concise written format compliant with CRA criteria• Prepare/review SR&ED technical documentation as specified by Government guidelines.• Prepare/review detailed accounting summaries for the SR&ED tax credits.• Perform internal Audits to ensure compliance with best practice SR&ED reporting requirements.• Initiates and coordinates periodic external review of SR&ED eligibility by engagement of SR&ED Consultants• Maintains awareness of industry trends and changing tax environment, providing input to strategic planning for R&D and Canadian Corporate Tax

Canonsburg, Pa, Us

• Reported to the Vice President Product Strategy & Planning• Drove ANSYS's pricing processes across all departments and regions and advised on current and future strategies for the growth of new and existing business - Collaborate and liaise with various departments throughout the company including product management, sales and marketing, business operations, legal, finance and development. - Contribute to and present key pricing assumptions for current and future products as part of ANSYS's overall new product initiative communications to key company stakeholders. - Designed HPC products that have fuelled product sales growth since 2009• Chair Pricing Committee - ANSYS global sales were ~385M USD in 2007 and grew to ~$690M USD by 2011 - Maintain & communicate Price List updates to worldwide sales and operations staff - Ensure cross functional review & awareness of product changes - Develop and communicate pricing policies to worldwide sales teams - Drove pricing integration of acquired products, including US GSA pricing and regional pricing - Obtained Executive teams’ approval for all pricing changes and portfolio changes - Presented pricing adjustment recommendations to the Executive team annually• Contribute to corporate product portfolio pricing/packaging/positioning - Analyze & Report product performance & profitability - Provide quarterly product performance report• Product Lifecycle Management - Provide analysis for Buy/Build/Partner decisions - Performed analysis to determine the sales impact/opportunity of proposed product integrations - Responsible for cooperate level competitive intelligence - Assisted Investor Relations with talking points relating to changes in the competitive landscape - Maintained Google Site where the product management team could gather competitive intelligence on product pricing and capabilities - Authored Competitive Intelligence Bulletins to update the Sales Team on the impact of competitor activities

Canonsburg, Pa, Us

• Reported directly to the VP and General Manger & Vice President Development, Fluids Business Unit • Introduced integrated and bundled CFD products that doubled sales in 3 years• The financial success of CFX products fueled the acquisition of Fluent, the sales leader in CFD• Participated in Quarterly Business Unit Reviews• Contributed to annual BU presentations made to the Board of Directors• Made presentations to the Executive team on product integration and replacement programs• Delivered on a key project to replace a 3rd party product that saved ANSYS ~$1M in royalties annually• Lead all activities necessary to ensure achievement of strategic revenue and profit objectives for a specific product family.• Develop the product launch plan complete with pricing, positioning, promotion, and ROI, including the ongoing tracking of product performance over time.• Works closely with development project managers to realistically differentiate the product/family: - Provides market needs and requirements as a basis for new product specifications. - Develop realistic development plans and schedules. - Evaluating and prioritizing requests for product changes or enhancements - Determine objectives and test plans for any test involving clients. Participate in the solicitation and selection of test participants• Works closely with sales, marketing, communications, and customer/product support to competitively differentiate the product and resolve issues such as special pricing, special promotions, designing demos, developing training courses, etc. • Managed a small marketing team responsible for product brochures, sales videos and websites : public, sales and customer portals.• Direct creation of release materials and assist, when necessary, with new product release.• Create and produce necessary marketing materials including sales guide, briefs, white papers, competitive analysis, sales training, web content, and other mechanisms of the promotion.

London, Gb

AEA Technology Engineering Software Ltd. was purchased by ANSYS, Inc. in February 2003.As Product Development Manager, I reported directly to the Vice President CFX Product Development, and was responsible for all development aspects of CFX-TASCflow.

In February 1997, Advanced Scientific Computing Ltd (ASC) was purchased by the AEA Technology plc, now Ricardo-AEA.As a principle developer, in a start-up engineering software company, I contributed to strategic planning, marketing, development and recruiting, as well as customer and staff training. ASC grew from 5 employees located in Waterloo, 1989, to a staff of 50 with offices in Germany and the U.S., with total revenues of $5M before being sold and merged with AEA Technology Engineering Software in February 1997.Publications & Papers:Lesage, F., Fournier, E.Y., Dupuis, A.D., Bernier, A., Rozon, B.J., “Advantages Associated with CFD Modelling in the Investigation of Supersonic Projectiles at DREV”, 3rd Conference of the CFD Society of Canada, Banff, June 1995.Lesage, F., Fournier, E.Y., Raw, M.J., Rozon, B.J., “Experimental and Computational Investigations on the Aerodynamic Performance of an Explosively Formed Projectile”, 14th Symposium on Ballistics, September 1993Zuercher, J.W., Rozon, B.J., “Validation of a Two-Layer Turbulence Model using Channel, Step and Turnaround Duct Data”, AIAA-93-3028, AIAA 24th Fluid Dynamics Conference, July 1993.Berner, C., Rozon, B.J., “Axisymmetric Base Flow Investigation: Measurements and Computation”, Institut Franco-Allemand de Recherches de Saint-Louis, October 1992, Saint-Louis.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Established in 1977 with over 100 Oil Companies from around the world as members, CMG was a non-profit, membership directed, R&D organization dedicated to developing petroleum reservoir simulation technology and transferring that technology to its members.As a senior research engineer:- Developed CMG's sparse matrix solution package AIMSOL- Developed Advanced Thermal Wellbore and Black Oil Reservoir Simulators - Applied generalized finite volume discretization methods to reservoir simulation. - Presented research results at the bi-annual Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meetings- Member of the “Advances & Advantages” Editorial Committee - Author/Co-author of 8 technical reports and 3 papers in 3 yearsPublications & Papers:Siu, A., Rozon, B.J., Li, Y.K., Nghiem, L., Acteson, W., McCormack, M., “A Fully Implicit Thermal Wellbore Model for Multi-Component Fluid Flows”, SPE 18777 prepared for presentation at the California Regional Meeting, Bakersfield, California, April 1989.Rozon, B.J., “A Generalized Finite Volume Discretization Method for Reservoir Simulation”, SPE 18481 prepared for presentation at the Tenth Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, Texas, February 1989.Nghiem, L, Rozon, B., “A Unified approach for Handling and Solving Large Systems of Equations in Reservoir Simulation”, presented at the First International Forum on Reservoir Simulation, Alpbach, Austria, September 1988.

Mba, Finance

Masc, Mechanical Engineering

Basc, First Class Honours, Mechanical Engineering