Francis Cadin is the CEO of the company.
He is a postgraduate mechanical engineer (equivalent to Master is 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 to 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.

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 is degree.
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 transfer 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.

Sales and administrative teams are based in Lyon as well as in Floure (near Carcassonne). They are in charge of the relationships with software companies, as well as with the worldwide networks of resellers. They worked very closely with the R&D and technical departments.