Dr. Dennis Nagy to Lead International Expansion Plan

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Blue Ridge Numerics’ Expands Relationship with MCAE Industry Veteran to Accelerate Business Expansion beyond North America

DR. DENNIS NAGY ASSUMES KEY NEW VP ROLE ON GROWING BLUE RIDGE NUMERICS TEAM

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. – Blue Ridge Numerics Inc., developer of CFdesign® software for upfront fluid flow and heat transfer simulation, is pleased to announce that Dr. Dennis A. Nagy has agreed to make Blue Ridge Numerics his primary consulting client and assume the role of Vice President, International Business Development. Nagy has been a strategic consultant to the company since July 2002, successfully assisting the company with its aggressive expansion into the European and Japanese markets.

With more than 30 years of MCAE experience, Dr. Nagy has served in executive capacities for several industry leaders including as CEO at Engineous Software, Senior VP of Worldwide Sales at MSC.Software, VP of Marketing at Fluent, and software development, strategic product planning, sales and support at SDRC.

“Dennis has already made invaluable contributions to the growth and maturity of our business operations in Europe and Japan,” says Blue Ridge Numerics President, Ed Williams. “With his help we are well on the way to generating international sales volumes on par with those in North America. We are very excited to have our international business under his proven leadership.”

Blue Ridge Numerics has been recognized by Deloitte & Touche and Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Business activities initiated by Dr. Nagy in Japan and key European countries are contributing to an annualized corporate growth rate over the past five years in excess of 65%.

"CFdesign is uniquely positioned as a mature upfront CFD solution developed from day-one for mechanical engineers working in an MCAD-centric environment,” explains Dr. Nagy. “Blue Ridge Numerics is leading the move of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) out of the research labs and into the forefront of mainstream product development engineering and I am very pleased to be able to lead their aggressive international growth. My experience with Blue Ridge Numerics has shown me that they are a tremendously talented and focused team who know exactly where they are going. I look forward to helping them get there even faster."

About Blue Ridge Numerics

Blue Ridge Numerics is an Inc. 500 company built around a single product vision called Upfront CFD. CFdesign® software puts comprehensive fluid flow and heat transfer simulation upfront in the product development process where it creates tremendous value for small, medium, and large companies around the world.

First introduced in 1992, the upfront CFD vision coupled with aggressive deployment of enabling technologies and an ever-increasing value proposition has made Blue Ridge Numerics one of the fastest growing privately held companies in America and the fastest growing CFD company in the world.