Dr. Aleksandra Egelja-Maruszewski is a Director, North America Customer Excellence at  ANSYS. She is leading a team of CAE application engineers in the North America that are representing the ANSYS brand and establishing ANSYS value proposition to clients in all technology and industry areas. Aleksandra joined Fluent Inc/ANSYS Inc. in 2000. Before joining ANSYS Aleksandra received her Ph.D. in Erlangen, Germany. She worked for a year at the Argonne National Lab. Since joining ANSYS Inc. Aleksandra held many different positions and spent time working with many different industries and customers, however she spent the most time working with the Automotive customers.