Making the Business Case for Simulation

Presentation by Mark Meili, Sr. Principal Engineer, Owner/Founder– Modeling Enabled Innovation, Leadership, & Insight

Mark Meili held a variety of technical and management positions in both R&D and Product Supply Engineering within Procter & Gamble. Most recently he led Modeling & Simulation as a capability for the Corporation as well as Product and Package data systems spanning both organizations and technical work processes from research to commercialization to supply chain operation. Mark owned innovation strategy for these tools and methods as well as the computing hardware and software strategies that enables them. Mark received Bachelor of Science degrees from Kansas State University, one in Mechanical Engineering and one in Grain Science & Industry. Mark served in the U.S. Department of Energy’s ExaScale Computing Project Industrial Advisory Board and currently serves the NAFEMS ASSESS Business Challenges Theme Committee. Mark has contributed to a Visioning Workshop with the National Science Foundation and a National Academy of Engineering workshop to accelerate Commercialization of U.S. Government sponsored research. Mark now consults and does keynote speaking for a variety of for profit and nonprofit organizations on topics ranging from the benefits of Digital Transformation to Innovation, to applied problem solving.