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Distene's operations were started 10 years ago within Simulog, a product and services company. The staff of Distene is composed of former Simulog employees, as are the company founders. They have brought aboard their goodwill, experience and know-how to make Distene a successful company.

• Mark Loriot, Managing Chairman, cofounder of Distene
  In 1990, Mark Loriot joined Simulog, a French company of 180 employees, as project engineer. He quickly became manager of multinational projects. He was promoted in 1995 to Technical Manager of the preprocessing, postprocessing, parallel computing group, then became Manager of the Scientific Computing business unit of Simulog. In 1996, this B.U. launched the project that originated Distene's current software products. In 2001, Mark became the Chief of Operations of Simulog Technologies, an independent business unit of Simulog. In 2004, Mark Loriot co-founded Distene.
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• Laurent Anné, Sales Director, cofounder of Distene
  As a Doctor in Sciences graduated from Paris VI University and recipient of the Seymour Cray Prize, Laurent Anné joined Simulog in 1996 as project engineer. His achievements include developing the business of a new local branch (Rhônes-Alpes) of Simulog. In 1998 he became as sales engineer at Simulog headquarters in Paris, in charge of international OEM sales. His business achievements were followed by the creation of the Simulog Technologies business unit where he was appointed as Sales & Marketing Director. In 2004, Laurent Anné co-founded Distene.
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