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MSC.Software today announced the appointment of Toru Kawaguchi as president of their wholly owned Japanese subsidiary, MSC.Software Ltd. In this role Mr. Kawaguchi will have responsibility for complete field operations in Japan, the most important market in the company's Asia Pacific operations. Mr. Kawaguchi joins MSC.Software with 28 years of sales, marketing and management experience in the CAD/CAM/CAE, PLM, and enterprise software industries. Previously Mr. Kawaguchi held the positions of president and representative director of think3 KK; executive director, manufacturing solution department of Autodesk KK; and, director, I-DEAS Sales and Marketing Department of Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) KK. Before SDRC, Mr. Kawaguchi was manager, mainframe computer sales department, manufacturing industry division of IBM Japan, Ltd. "I am pleased to announce the appointment of Toru Kawaguchi as president of MSC.Software Ltd.," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer, MSC.Software. "He brings strong sales and management expertise to a team noted for their technical excellence. His extensive history of providing strong leadership; especially in executive level selling well prepares him to enable current and future MSC.Software customers to maximize use of their existing engineering products and also to drive business by promoting the benefits of enterprise simulation."