Dr. Alex Ran is one of the founding partners of OffshoreTech LLC, and currently holding the position of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Naval Architect.    Dr. Ran has over twenty years of industrial experiences in naval architecture and offshore engineering. 

 He has participated in many high profile offshore projects including the first compliant tower in the world.   His technical experiences include jacket platform design and installation engineering, compliant tower platform design and installation engineering, floatover installation engineering, and floating platform (Spar, TLP, semi-submersible) design and installation engineering. He was the lead marine engineer for an early industry  floatover installation project with a worldwide contractor and the lead naval    architect for the design of the first synthetic mooring system on deep water floating platforms in Gulf of Mexico (Mad Dog Spar platform project).

In addition to his rich technical experience in the offshore industry, Dr. Ran has strong theoretical background and knowledge. He is the principal developer of the state-of-art engineering software HARP, which has been widely used in the offshore industry for the deep water floating platform design and mooring/riser system design.