Executive Team
Stephen Collins
President and CEO
Stephen Collins is a co-founder of Anark and an 18 year industry veteran within the high-tech, entertainment, and enterprise 3D market sectors. He has extensive sales, marketing, business development and private equity financing experience.
Stephen has guided Anark through its evolution from innovative 3D game development studio to an emerging market leader with advanced and practical 3D and data management solutions that enable customers to cost effectively realize the full potential of their CAD design data and other 3D graphics assets via a wide variety of collaboration, communication and visualization applications.
Prior to founding Anark, Stephen worked for market leaders such as Xerox, Tandy’s Business Systems Division, and Microage, where he consistently exceeded sales goals and company expectations.
Stephen earned his BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1989, where he majored in History and minored in Marketing.
Scott Collins
Senior Vice President of Product Development
Scott Collins is an Anark co-founder and directs the company's product management efforts, overseeing the Anark Media and Anark Core Platforms. He works closely with Anark’s enterprise manufacturing customers to inform the company’s product roadmap to ensure cost-effective and practical solutions to their 3D product data management and visualization needs. Scott has successfully secured multiple technology patents for Anark.
Prior to founding Anark, Scott served as an engineer for one of the world's leading manufacturers of telemetry-based meteorological instruments, now a division of Lockheed Martin. He served as a project lead and technical facilitator for multi-year, multi-million dollar manufacturing contracts with the National Weather Service, and worked at length with researchers at NOAA, NCAR, and NASA as well as contracts for the governments of United Kingdom, Brazil and Turkey.
Scott earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of North Carolina Charlotte.
Chris Garcia
Senior Vice President of Business Development
Chris Garcia is a 3D CAD and PLM industry visionary and veteran with over 20 years of design and manufacturing experience. Chris directs the company's formation of strategic alliances, channel partnerships and helps the company set strategic direction.
Before joining Anark, Chris was Vice President of Research and Development at Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corporation, a position he held for 5 years. At SolidWorks, Chris led a staff of over 300 engineers located in offices spread over 6 countries, focusing on the research, development and release of the world class SolidWorks product offerings.
Prior to SolidWorks, Chris founded Xygent Corp, a division of global manufacturing automation software provider Brown & Sharpe Inc. Chris was also VP of Engineering at Tecnomatix Technologies (a division of Siemens PLM), and was the founder of their Valisys products.
Chris has received Patents for the development of an automated Design, Manufacturing and Inspection Process linked to CAD/CAM systems and has a patent pending for the Automatic Generation of Plus-Minus and Geometric Tolerance Schemes that conform to the ASME 14.5 and 14.41 dimensioning standard.
Chris earned a master's degree in business administration at Santa Clara University, a bachelor's degree in computer science and general engineering from San Jose State University, and holds an accreditation from the MIT Sloan Executive Education program.
Brett Heinrichs
Vice President of Client Services
Brett has over 17 years of experience in the aviation industry coupled with over 13 years in business development, interactive media, application development and serving global 500 customers. Brett came to Anark in 2004 from Refinery, a top 10 independent interactive web agency that he co-founded back in 1994. He served as Chairman and President until Refinery was sold in 2007.
Besides bringing a wealth of aviation knowledge and experience to the team, Brett specializes in building successful account teams that ensure our clients receive the quality and care they expect. Brett also serves as a senior consultant on projects for Boeing, Cessna and Pratt & Whitney helping to understand our customers’ needs and to design solutions that achieve their goals.
Prior to Anark, Brett served 3 years with Arthur Andersen’s consulting and enterprise group from 1994 to 1997 and was Vice President, Finance for Cornerstone Private Capital, LLC from 1997 to 2000. Brett graduated magna cum laude from Pennsylvania State University with a BS in Accounting.
Sharon Young
Vice President of Finance
Sharon Young has over 20 years of finance and accounting experience within the software, services, and non-profit sectors. She has extensive operational and financial management expertise, including forecasting and budget management, accounting, audit implementation and oversight, and tax and regulatory compliance.
Sharon joined Anark in 2005 and was appointed Vice President of Finance in June of 2008. She is responsible for managing the company’s finance, accounting, and operations.
Prior to joining Anark, Sharon successfully served in a variety of senior finance and operational positions with organizations such as CADNET, MARC, and the Patton Management Group, a division of Bracknel Corporation.
Sharon earned her BS in Business Administration from Minot State Teachers College, ND.