CTO promoted to CEO Chair

SARATOGA, CALIFORNIA: Conformiq, Inc., a provider of software test design solutions, announced that Antti Huima, CTO and technology architect for Conformiq, has been elevated to the position of president and CEO.

After working with Conformiq for more than eight years in key roles such as managing director, chief scientific officer and CTO, Huima’s ascension to CEO fulfills the strategic vision of the board of directors to have a technologist lead Conformiq. Antti has led the development of Conformiq’s Automated Test Design tool suite since 2005 and has more than proven his worth as a corporate leader during his many roles at Conformiq,” states Michael Mandahl, partner with Nexit Ventures and chairman of Conformiq’s board of directors. “He will provide the strong and knowledgeable leadership Conformiq needs to continue to grow.”

“I’m very excited about the opportunity to lead Conformiq,” says Mr. Huima. “It’s amazing to see the Conformiq tool suite in action. Our customers are able to cut costs and development time and improve quality at the same time. We routinely get 80 percent resource savings in test case design and still the end results are better than before. It’s a fundamentally new way of thinking in the testing industry, and it’s wonderful to see your brainchild learning to walk and to run. This is a billion dollar opportunity for us and for our customers, and we are together aiming for the bleachers.”

During Mr. Huima’s earlier post as the managing director for Conformiq Finland, the company established its first international office in Sweden and then relocated its headquarters to Silicon Valley. He has researched and implemented the original test generation core used in Conformiq Designer and still consults on its development. Respected in the academic community, he has also served on numerous international program committees and given several invited conference talks; he also taught regularly at Finland’s leading technology university until relocating to the United States.

Conformiq tools automate the design of functional tests for software and systems, a traditionally manual and time-consuming task. Software tests are generated from high-level models, and published in human-readable and executable test scripts in customizable formats including HTML, XML, Python, Perl, TCL, Visual Basic, and TTCN-3.