David is the CEO of finot-conq, a renowned naval architecture company founded in 1969, designing racing yachts, production boats, and one-off sailing yachts as well. After graduating in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and a first career in the aerospace and software industries, David fulfilled his childhood dream by joining Jean-Marie Finot and Pascal Conq 24 years ago. He has since been in charge of fluid dynamics, structural design and computer sciences at finot-conq. Seven years ago, he started working on a Fine Marine-based sailing yacht performance prediction tool, which is currently developed by Pierre Robin.

Pierre is working as a CFD engineer at finot-conq. His previous experience includes an internship amid lockdown within the Marine team of Cadence (still called Numeca at the time), another at finot-conq in 2021, quickly followed by a recently completed industrial PhD in partnership with Ecole Centrale de Nantes. His research focused on using high-fidelity simulations to predict the performance of high-performance yachts, particularly IMOCAs, 60-feet foiling monohulls competing in offshore races such as the Vendée Globe - a class of racing yacht with which finot-conq has a long and distinguished history.

Naval Architect & Data Analytics Lead at Houlder with over 15 years of experience conducting hydrodynamic performance predictions for a wide range of ships, leading feasibility studies for the wind propulsion system, and now leading the development of Houlder’s ship efficiency improvement advisory services, and operational modelling capabilities for advising optimum solutions for real-world improvement.

Was an active user of Cadence Fine-Marine for ship performance prediction and now focus is shifted on the use of CFD to create ship performance twin for operational modelling for ship modifications and assessment of energy saving technologies.  

Pierre gained a Master of Science in aeronautics at Centrale Paris, and is a Specialized Advanced Master in Marine Renewable Energies at ENSTA.

He has nearly 15 years in marine renewable energy fields, working on Floating Offshore Wind Turbines floaters and mooring as a naval architect, head of simulation team and technical manager.

He has been at Bluefins for a year as the head of the modelling team. This team encompasses hydrodynamics, command-and-control, time-domain simulation.

Romain is a Senior CFD Application Engineer at Cadence, responsible for supporting our CFD customers. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a postgraduate research master’s diploma in Fluid Dynamics from the von Karman Institute. His experience in CFD spans a wide range of applications, including advanced meshing and computations in Fine Marine for marine customers, high-fidelity LES computations with a focus on aeroacoustics, and optimization.

Hydromechanics Research Engineer for Damen’s research department. Cagri has previously worked in Istanbul Technical University as a researcher for 8 years, where he obtained a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He has experience working with experimental fluid dynamics as well as CFD focusing on Tug hydrodynamics. Currently his focus is on propulsion prediction using high fidelity full scale simulations.

Vincent Jacobs started working for Van Oossanen Naval Architects over ten years ago as a CFD engineer. 

“My passion for sailing started when I joined the water scouts in my home town, but my interest in engineering started even earlier. These two interests, sailing and engineering, lead me to study maritime engineering at the TU Delft.

After my graduation, I started working for Van Oossanen Naval Architects. As a hydrodynamicist, I support clients in their design process, which can range from simple resistance calculations to helping the clients to understand the effects of hull modifications on the resistance of their vessel."