ABOUT VORTEX

Mr. Robert Weldon, CEO

Robert Weldon studied Symplectic Geometry, Dynamical Systems and modern mechanics at the University of California (Santa Cruz and Berkeley), before working as a developer and a consultant in the computer graphics and computer games industries. Before founding CMLabs, Robert was the project manager of MathEngine's Karma physics toolkit for games, Vice President of Research and Development at Velocity Games, and Technical Director at PostLinear Entertainment.

Dr. Arnold Free, VP Business Development

Arnold Free is Vice President, Business Development, responsible for product strategy, business development and market vision. Arnold brings more than 20 years of experience in growing engineering software businesses. Prior to joining CMLabs, Arnold was President of Metrix, a technology company focused on 3D manufacturing software. Previously, Arnold was VP Business Development at MAYA, a company specializing in engineering simulation software. Arnold graduated from Cambridge University, U.K., with a doctorate in engineering and has a broad design, R&D and software engineering background.

Dr. Marek Teichmann, CTO

Marek Teichmann completed his PhD in computer science at the Courant Institute, NYU, in the field of Computational Geometry and Robotics, working on theoretical and practical aspects of grasping and fixturing. Marek was collision group leader at Lateral Logic – a developer of visualization and simulation software technology. He continued this work at MathEngine, where he designed and implemented advanced collision algorithms as part of computer simulations of rigid-body dynamics system. Marek brings his unique combined software, geometry and robotics experience to CMLabs, where he is the CTO.