Overseeing more than 100 development staff in eight offices across three continents, he is tasked with ensuring each brand’s twice-yearly release delivers large, high quality, new features on what he calls an aggressive timescale.
Working closely with Vero’s strategic product director and brand managers, he analyses feedback from customers, sales channels and applications engineers, to provide features the market needs.
Youngs says: “We also consider market trends, new technological innovation and areas where we think we can provide a better solution for manufacturers. Also, by working with our colleagues in the wider Hexagon Group [which bought Vero Software in 2014], we’re now able to offer solutions that encompass more than just CADCAM software.
Becoming part of Vero when the company acquired Machining Strategist in 2002, he ran the development office in Cambridge before moving to the Cheltenham head office three years later. He continued to run the Machining Strategist development team and also worked closely with the VISI development team until 2015, when he became technical and integration manager for Vero’s CADCAM brands – his last post.
He concludes: “These are exciting times for the CAD/CAM/CAE market. l can foresee further consolidation within the industry, and with new manufacturing methods, and increasingly complex CNC machines, new technology will need to be delivered at ever-increasing speed.”
