Leadership

Leadership

Dr. Rachik Elmaraghy, Eng., Ph.D. Founder, President and CEO, Head of R&D of SAFI Quality Software Inc. Founder, President and CEO of StructureTech Network Inc. Dr. Elmaraghy founded SAFI Quality Software Inc. in 1986 with the vision of creating a world leader for providing the construction industry with state-of-the-art software tools. He is leading the innovative R&D work for the many technological products at SAFI Quality Software Inc. He is also guiding the consulting engineering services for the affiliated company StructureTech Network Inc. Dr. Elmaraghy holds a B.Sc. from Cairo University and an M.A.Sc. from Toronto University. In 2008, he was granted a Ph.D. in Construction Engineering from the ETS University of Quebec in Montreal Canada for his significant research work related to solving the Interoperability problems that are facing the construction industry, and which led to the development of the Virtual Technologies for the full integration of 3D modeling, analysis, design, detail drawings and fabrication. Dr. Elmaraghy has gained extensive industrial experience before founding SAFI. He worked for two years at Pratt & Whitney, a United Technology company, where he carried out stress and vibration analyses of aircraft components. For another three years, he performed stress and vibration analyses, and structural design of diesel engines and electric generator structures at Bombardier. Dr. Elmaraghy then joined the Industrial Research Center of Quebec (CRIQ) where he was successively Head of the Vibration and Noise department, Head of the Testing and Evaluation department and Head of the Structural Dynamics department.