Arun Duggal is the Chief of Technology at SOFEC, Inc., a business unit of the MODEC Group. His responsibilities range from overseeing research and development activities across the SOFEC portfolio, and to provide strategic focus to SOFEC’s technology development and project mooring system selection. He has been employed at SOFEC for over 26 years. He has been an active participant in industry conferences and meetings, authoring and presenting over 70 papers and is a Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Arun had degrees from Stanford University, Texas A&M University, The University of Miami, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.