James Scapa
$2.2B
Born
Jan 23, 1957
Age
68
Source of Wealth
Software
Residence
Atherton, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
4
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Columbia University; Master of Business Administration, University of Michigan
- James Scapa left his job as a computer engineering consultant for General Motors to start Altair Engineering with two coworkers in 1985.
- He has been Altair's CEO since its founding and took the company public in 2017. He owns 24% of Altair's shares.
- Based in Troy, Michigan, Altair provides software in engineering simulation, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.
- Scapa grew up in New York as the son of Greek immigrant Holocaust survivors and graduated from Columbia before leaving the East Coast.
- GM rejected Altair for its first purchase order to discourage entrepreneurial activity among employees, Scapa says, though it later became his first big customer.
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