President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Ansys
Search every verified Ajei Gopal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ajei Gopal, President and CEO of Ansys, received the ASME Foundation Excellence in Industry Award in May 2025. In accepting the award, Gopal described his leadership style as having three aspects: bringing outside perspectives into the organization, making decisions in a way that engages others, and communicating frequently. He stated that Ansys' mission is "to power innovation that drives human advancements" and highlighted the company's work with NASA and Northrop on the James Webb Telescope. Gopal also discussed a startup called Circleg that uses Ansys software to convert plastic waste into low-cost prosthetics, and expressed support for the ASME Foundation's goal of expanding access to engineering education. In earlier appearances, Gopal has discussed the role of simulation in autonomous vehicle development, stating that validating autonomous cars would require physically driving over eight billion miles and that this "cannot be achieved without the use of simulation." He noted that Ansys is working with BMW to develop a simulation tool chain for testing autonomous driving systems. Gopal has also described simulation as "our superpower" and said that multiphysics simulation gives engineers the ability to "see inside a product and instantly grasp the physics behind it." He has characterized the fourth Industrial Revolution as involving the integration of digital technologies into industries such as automotive, and has said that the cloud is making simulation more accessible, particularly as engineers work from home.
“Our mission statement is to power innovation that drives human advancements, and our tools and our technologies and our capabilities, we believe, are essential to our customers as they drive innovation to the marketplace.”
“When I think about leadership and I think about my own style, there are three aspects of it. One is not being insular, but being able to bring the outside in. In other words, I like to collect information that is not just from within an organization, but what people from outside of an organization might be saying.”
“The second is make decisions effectively, but do so in a manner that engages the people around you. And the third is to communicate, communicate, communicate.”
“What excites me about Ansys products is the innovation that it unlocks in our customers. We worked with NASA and with the engineers at Northrop on the James Webb Telescope. The engineering that was involved in taking that mirror and then flying it a million miles from Earth, is an incredible feat of engineering.”
“There's a tsunami of startup companies that have been created around the world. Just given the advancements across all of the fields of engineering, and certainly the availability of tools such as Ansys, these engineers can go out and start their own companies, chasing their own dream.”
“Circleg was a company that was started by two engineers who were looking at the issue of plastic waste. Their idea was to take plastic waste and to convert it into low-cost prosthetics. And they use Ansys. They use Ansys Mechanical, they use Ansys Granta for materials, and they were able to come together and create a s...”
“Our customers come to us all the time and say, we need more engineering talent. Where can we find engineers? The work of the ASME Foundation to increase the pool of availability of qualified engineers is a great thing for Ansys and for companies like us.”
“The goal of the ASME Foundation is to make sure that deserving candidates are able to get access to what they need, whether it's K through 12 or certainly at the university level. So we feel very connected to that, and we very much support that objective of making sure that there are as many people as possible who are...”
“Better engineering talent can only help to make the world a better place.”
“The world in which you're going to graduate into is quite profoundly different — we're dealing with a pandemic, obviously there is a recession as a result of the pandemic, we're seeing global trade disputes here in the U.S., we're seeing broad discussions about civil rights.”
“We're the leader in engineering simulation software — the company today is worldwide, we have customers around the world, and whatever product you're using, in all likelihood the vendor of that product used Ansys technology or some of our products to be able to build that offering.”
“You have to find that alchemy of talent, of passion, and of course money, and in the aggregate that will help you find the success that you seek.”
“What's far more important is to learn how to learn — learn how to question, how to reason — and you have to learn to make decisions in the context of incomplete information.”
“With global disruption and supply chains that's going to be an opportunity — these are markets that are going to be disrupted and there are opportunities, so can you address it, what could you do, what are the skills that you could bring to help address a problem that's going to happen.”
“One company I talk about often is Relativity — founded by two young engineers who decided to use additive manufacturing to print a rocket, built the world's largest 3D printer and in 18 months went from starting the company to getting an engine on a NASA test bed.”
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