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ModViz Inc. announced that Richard W. Thomas has joined the company as vice president of sales. Thomas, formerly VP of sales at Enigma, brings 20 years of highly successful sales experience in enterprise and CAD visualization markets. In his new role, he will be responsible for expanding ModViz's revenue base in the petroleum, manufacturing and defense markets. ModViz is a provider of software for extremely high-performance, real-time 3-D graphics computing on commodity Linux clusters. "Dick is a seasoned and successful sales executive with the acumen to aggressively drive ModViz's existing revenue growth," said Tom Coull, chief executive officer, ModViz. "We are very pleased to have him join our team and are confident that his proven skills in enterprise sales and customer development will accelerate ModViz's existing momentum. His 3-D experience is invaluable with our current and future client base." Thomas has extensive and successful sales experience at the executive level. While VP of sales of North America at Enigma, Thomas architected a successful turnaround of the firm's North American sales organization and guided the company into a new market. The industry marketplace group that Thomas directed at Ariba Inc. from 2000-2001 was responsible for one of the largest exchange sales ever completed by that company. As VP sales at Parametric Technology Corp., Thomas led the effort to deliver the largest sale in Parametric Technology Corp.'s history. Thomas stated, "It is with great enthusiasm that I join the ModViz team as vice president of sales. My sales background and successes in technology growth arenas as well as my existing knowledge of the 3-D marketplace should enable me to contribute meaningfully to ModViz's future growth." ModViz's core product, the Virtual Graphics Platform (VGP), provides a common, standards-based 3-D graphics computing platform that delivers supercomputing-level visualization with extreme data size and scalability on high-performance clusters of lower-cost Linux and Windows computing nodes. ModViz's software supports a wide array of both commercial and non-commercial visualization applications in fields such as seismic interpretation, computational fluid dynamics, digital mockup and bio-medical engineering.