Cyrille Douillet

Ms in Mathematical Modelling (France) & CFD (Yacht Research Unit, Auckland). After working in the Twisted Flow wind Tunnel, Cyrille worked for One World Challenge in the 31st Americas's Cup. During the 32nd Cup, he has been in charge of the performance program development for Areva Challenge. Since 2007, Cyrille has been in charge of performance analysis for Telefonica during the 2009 Volvo and Groupama for the 2011 edition. His expertise lies in software programming, databases, performance and data analysis.



Roland Kleiter

Ms in Naval Architecture - Roland has developed with M. Richelsen one of the most effective Panel code – VPP hull analysis loops which he applied successfully within Judel-Vrolijk on the TP52 program (Audi Med Cup winners in 2006 & 2007). Roland has been involved with the German America's Cup Design Teams (Illbruck Challenge, UITG & Deutsche Challenge). After the Cup he has been actively working on performance predictions programs collaborating with racing designers such as North Sails Design Group, Jason Ker, Reichel Pugh as well as the Italian Olympic program.



Dimitri Nicolopoulos

Ms degree in applied Mathematics - In addition to 2 Cup cycles as design coordinator with Areva Challenge and Deutsche Challenge, 2 Audi Med Cup as performance analyst including 2011 victory with Quantum Racing, Dimitri has participated to a number of high level projects including Abu Dhabi Volvo70 rig development, IMOCA60 SAFRAN 2011 bulb optimization, performance develoment of the Bronze Medal Yngling for Beijing Olympics... Beyond sailing, Dimitri brings 15 years of high tech management expertise in nuclear, supercomputing and automotive (CAE & CFD) industries worldwide.