Chad Jackson is the President and Principal Analyst of Lifecycle Insights, a research and advisory firm that assesses the business impact of software applications and systems on engineering organizations. Chad has more than 15 years of experience with CAD, CAE, PDM, PLM and others technologies as part of the analyst community and in the software industry. Due to his industry knowledge and thought leadership, Chad is a sought-after expert, author and speaker that has advised, published and presented dozens of times both domestically and internationally.

Background

Before founding Lifecycle Insights, Chad led Aberdeen’s Product Innovation and Engineering practice as Vice President and Principal Analyst. While there, Chad defined and directed the practice’s vision for the research, services and programs including the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Product Innovation Summit executive events. Chad’s research responsibilities ranged from core design and engineering issues to front-end innovation topics, technical communications, manufacturing planning and engineering related sourcing. During his four year period at Aberdeen, Chad produced over 100 research-based publications that benchmarked the performance, strategies and tactics of over 5,000 product development stakeholders.

Prior to Aberdeen, Chad held a number of roles at an engineering software provider for more than a decade. There he gathered customer needs, planned new product releases and supported the ongoing use of the software solutions for engineering and broader product development organizations within manufacturers.

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