Speakers

Greg Bentley joined his four brothers at Bentley Systems in 1991. Previously, he founded a financial trading software firm, which became part of SunGard Data Systems, Inc., an S&P 500 company on whose public-company board Greg served from 1991 through 2005. He holds an M.B.A. in finance and decision sciences from Wharton. Greg is a trustee of Drexel University, where he also serves as chairman of the advisory board for the Pennoni Honors College.

Keith Bentley is a founder of Bentley Systems and is the principal architect of the company’s technology directions. He has served as a director and an executive officer since Bentley’s inception, and was the company’s president until 1995 and CEO until 2000. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida. Keith is the primary inventor on numerous company patents.

Nicholas Cumins is chief product officer at Bentley Systems. His team is responsible for the definition, development, and successful adoption of Bentley’s software solutions for advancing infrastructure. He has over 20 years of product leadership experience with established and startup companies in multiple software industries. Prior to joining Bentley, Nicholas served as general manager of SAP Marketing Cloud, a comprehensive marketing automation platform. He also served as chief product officer of Scytl, a platform for online voting, in Barcelona, and senior vice president of product with OpenX, a pioneer in programmatic advertising, in Los Angeles. Before OpenX, Nicholas had already served in a variety of senior roles at SAP, including product management, corporate strategy, and business development in the United States, Germany, and France. He earned master’s degrees in law and in business from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University.

Santanu Das is the chief acceleration officer at Bentley Systems, where he manages the corporate strategy for acquisitions, investments, and new startup businesses. He joined Bentley in 2005 after the acquisition of Research Engineers. His prior roles at Bentley include senior vice president of design integration, vice president of design and simulation, and vice president of structural and building. Santanu earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kat Lord-Levins is chief success officer and SVP at Bentley Systems. She is responsible for leading the user success team, which strives to meet the business needs of users, build loyalty, and make Bentley their solution of choice. Before joining Bentley, Kat worked for two decades at Autodesk in several roles, including, most recently, focusing on building and leading the construction business unit customer success team. Prior to Autodesk Kat worked at Alias Research in Toronto, a software company that produced high-end 3D graphics software. Kat earned a degree in computer science from the University of Toronto.

Andrej has spent over two decades serving clients in the AEC industry, providing corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions advice (over 130 completed AEC industry transactions throughout his career), as well as private equity capital raising, internal stock valuations, benchmarking, and other financial advisory services. He has advised CEOs, CFOs, and Boards of Directors of over 500 AEC firms around the world.

​​Prior to forming AEC Advisors LLC, Andrej was the Managing Director and head of M&A and Valuations at EFCG, where he had worked for 22 years. Prior to EFCG, Andrej worked at Salomon Brothers, a major investment banking firm at the time.

Andrej has an MBA from Columbia University and received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Freed-Hardeman University.

Matthias Rebellius was appointed Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Smart Infrastructure on October 1, 2020. As managing board member, he is also responsible for Supply Chain Management and in addition holds the role as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Siemens Switzerland.

Previously, Mr. Rebellius served as Chief Operating Officer of Siemens’ Smart Infrastructure business and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Switzerland.

He is also a member of the supervisory boards for Siemens Energy AG and Siemens Energy Management GmbH.

Brock Ballard is vice president of Americas Account Advancement at Bentley Systems. Brock holds a degree from the University of Alabama, he has over 20 years in sales and leadership roles. He is responsible for the largest geographic line of business at Bentley. Brock is dedicated to end user success by helping align users with Bentley’s technologies to drive value, quality, and innovation. Prior to Bentley he worked for Dassault Systems in a leadership role and spent over 13 years at Autodesk in several roles driving transformation in industries including Media & Entertainment, Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Manufacturing.

Kaushik Chakraborty is vice president of Asia South and has more than 28 years of experience holding senior management positions in international sales and business development across multiple industries including government, defense and emergency services, utilities, transportation, and geospatial. He joined Bentley in 2015 and is focused on growing Bentley’s breadth of geospatial and engineering solutions to accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance for the infrastructure that sustains our economy and our environment.

Prior to joining Bentley, Kaushik was Vice President at the Hexagon Group and served in leadership roles at both Intergraph and Leica Geosystems in the Asia Pacific and EMEA regions.

Kaushik holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical engineering and has earned certificates in management and leadership.

Rodrigo Fernandes is director of ES(D)G (Empowering Sustainable Development Goals) at Bentley Systems, leading company’s sustainability initiatives. Rodrigo’s charter is to advocate for a culture of sustainability, empower sustainable development goals through Bentley software and services, and evangelize Bentley’s environmental handprint. Rodrigo is also European Climate Pact Ambassador and serves as an external expert for the European Commission and for the Portuguese Ministry of the Sea (DGPM). Rodrigo is an industry expert on environmental engineering and environmental digital twins, with experience around sustainability-related product strategy, and knowledgeable on climate-related topics and how it links to infrastructure projects, software and services. Previously in Bentley, he was senior consultant and project manager on Water Team, and environmental industry expert for Acceleration and Digital Cities units. He joined Bentley in 2017 with the acquisition of Action Modulers’ Water Business Unit, and prior to that he was Researcher in Marine, Environment & Technology Center (MARETEC), University of Lisbon. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering, and has designed and managed over 20 European innovation projects on modeling water resources and environmental safety issues, and authored +30 peer-reviewed papers.

Gregg Herrin is vice president for water-related industry solutions, leading the digital twin efforts for water infrastructure, and coordinating advances across the portfolio of engineering applications and enterprise systems. He joined Bentley Systems in 2004 when Bentley acquired Haestad Methods, a pioneer in the hydraulics and hydrology software industry. He has served in a variety of roles focused on the combination of engineering technologies and data systems. Herrin earned his Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from the University of Vermont, and he continues to maintain his professional engineering license. He is the co-inventor of five patented technologies and has been the editor or contributing author for numerous publications.

Christian Huber joined Bentley in March 2021 as vice president and regional executive EMEA. He is responsible leading the EMEA sales team and its go-to-market strategies and execution.

For more than 3 decades in sales and sales leadership roles, Christian has helped serve Accounts to successfully meet their KPIs and Strategic Initiatives, as well as enable companies' go-to-market and sales transformation for better success and strong growth results.

In previous positions, Christian worked at Ansys Inc as the director of sales enterprise accounts and south EMEA. Prior to that, he worked at Autodesk for more than a decade in various sales and management roles, serving accounts in the key industries, including automotive, manufacturing, and AEC. Christian holds an MBA from SHW Business School in Vienna.

Lori Hufford is responsible for the strategic direction and management of Bentley’s Engineering Collaboration applications including ProjectWise and BCDE. She has had several roles within Bentley Systems, including leading the MicroStation team and has over 25 years of industry experience. Hufford earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University, and a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Christopher Liew is the senior vice president and regional executive of Asia North. In this role he is responsible for leading the Sales organization of Greater China, Japan and South Korea for Bentley Systems. With more than 37 years of sales and marketing experience in the IT industry, Christopher is responsible for strategically augmenting Bentley’s regional business growth.

Christopher is spearheading Digital Twins technology transformation in Advancing Infrastructure in Asia North. With his leadership, Bentley are supporting users to leverage Digital Twins solutions for Mega and ES(D)G Projects with innovative technologies in key infrastructure related industries such as energy and transportation.

Prior to his current appointment, Christopher Liew has been the Vice President and Territory Executive for Greater China and Asia South in Bentley Systems (South East Asia and South Asia). Before Joining Bentley, Christopher was the Area General Manager, ASEAN, Technology Solutions Sales, responsible for substantially boosting Oracle’s revenue and market share in solutions selling.

Christopher holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors majoring in Computer Science from the University Science Malaysia.

Dustin Parkman is vice president of mobility at Bentley. He has held several senior product and business development positions throughout his career and has specialized in developing products and solutions that service the infrastructure industry. Dustin has dedicated his career to creating technology that allows engineers, constructors, and owners to automate the construction and operation of infrastructure with significant emphasis in transportation. Dustin holds degrees in computer science and economics.

Vonnie Smith is vice president of energy at Bentley and has over 30 years of combined experience in electricity, gas and communications. She joined the company in 2005 and has served in leadership capacities related to digital twins, asset management, geographic information systems, utilities, and communications. Previously, Vonnie was president and CEO of Cook-Hurlbert. She has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas, specializing in electric power systems. Vonnie is passionate about digital twins and how they can help companies transform to sustainable energy futures.

Richard is senior director in the Industry Solutions, Product Advancement Unit of Bentley Systems, based in Munich, Germany. He is responsible for the vision and strategy of Bentley’s urban Digital Twin software solutions.

Richard holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and he has worked his entire career in the AEC sector. Before joining Bentley Systems, he had various leadership positions like Managing Director, Member of the Group Executive Board and Chief Digital Officer in business-consultancy, infrastructure-consultancy, and software development firms.

Intrigued by the holistic Industry 4.0 approach, Richard strongly believes in the value of digital services and products to make better and faster data-driven decisions based on the Digital Twin technology, together with a large range of analytics and augmented intelligence to bring automation to the next level, which are autonomous, learning systems.