Richard C. G. Murphy

MSC Software Corp. develops simulation software technology that enables engineers to validate and optimize their designs using virtual prototypes. Its services include quick start projects, knowledge transfer, customer success program, staff augmentation, on-site support, simulation projects, customization and process automation, methods development, toolkit solutions, and simulation data and process management. The firm's customers include the aerospace, automotive, consumer products, defense, electronics and energy industries. The company was founded by Richard MacNeal and Robert Schwendler in 1963 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

BIOVIA, Inc. develops and commercializes scientific informatics software products and services for industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation. Its enterprise platform provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. The company by incorporating its capabilities in applications for modeling and simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow and automation, and data management and informatics, it enables scientific innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in various ways. BIOVIA was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.