Francis Cadin is the CEO of the company and also in charge of Datakit Inc.
He is a postgraduate mechanical engineer (equivalent to Master degree in Mechanical Engineering). After his graduation, he decided to spend several years to explore different countries and cultures (Brazil, India, Côte d’Ivoire and French Guyana) where he worked as an engineer or a teacher. In 86, he came back in France and learned Computer graphic engineering. After that, he spent a couple of years working in Cam. He got his first contact with Cad Data Exchange being hired by the GOSet (organization dedicated to French cad data exchange standard format: Set). At that time, he also discovered Step and its huge capability. It was the very beginning of Cad data exchange development and he was enthusiastic to take part in such an adventure. In 94, he decided to create Datakit, a private Cad data exchange company aimed to develop and promote its own solutions. Francis Cadin is based in Santa Barbara, California, since fall 2006.

R&D and technical teams are based in Lyon as well as in Marseille. Most of them come from the university and have a master degree.
Datakit regularly hires graduates for the R&D and technical support department. Trainees are also welcome (never less than 2/3 months). Contact is jobs@datakit.com
The skills the company has on board, and its ability to listen to customers, propose solutions and document them, go a long way to explaining its success. All the team does its utmost to develop close links with customers, and they seem to appreciate this. Datakit’s action must be seen in the long term, especially as it is now starting to operate on a market where customers are upgrading existing solutions.

A specific team dedicated to data transfers services has been recently strenghtend. It is able to meet the needs of the most demanding customers, most of them engineering or design departments of manufacturing companies. It benefits from a long term experience and high skilled range of tools to deliver ready to use translated data and to convert full data base or complex assemblies that demand specific treatment (healing, simplification, export…). This team is located in Lyon and Paris.

Sales and administrative teams are based in Lyon as well as in Floure (near Carcassonne). It is in charge of the relationships with software companies, as well as with the worldwide network of resellers. They worked in very closed from the R&D and technical departments. Francis Cadin is also deeptly involved in marketing and sales, especially regarding the US market. In addition, the company is going to open very soon an office in China in order to develop sales on this market. At the beginning, one person will be on the chinese ground to hunt resellers and develop business in this area of the world.