Leadership

Amar has spent 30+ years developing innovative software for Building and Manufacturing industries. Amar is best known for his tenure at Autodesk where he was the co-CEO and Chief Product Officer, where he played a key role in the company’s transition from on-premise/license software to a cloud-based, subscription-focused business. The company’s market cap tripled during the span of this cloud transformation. 

Following Autodesk, Amar was the CEO of Bright Machines, a startup building software-powered assembly lines, named by Forbes as one of America's most promising AI companies.

Amar serves on the Board of Directors of PTC (NASDAQ: PTC), a major software provider to the manufacturing industry.

Brian Mathews is a technology futurist with over three decades of experience in architecting cloud and desktop software for designers and engineers. He served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Bright Machines, a company specializing in intelligent, software-defined manufacturing.

Prior to his role at Bright Machines, Mathews led a 500-person platform group at Autodesk, overseeing software development, cloud operations, product security, and compliance. His tenure at Autodesk also included leading teams focused on 3D reality capture, computer graphics, augmented reality, and data compression.

Mathews holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Matt Jezyk spent over two decades at Autodesk, contributing significantly to the development of Revit Architecture and Revit Structure. He also led the team responsible for Dynamo, a computational design tool widely adopted in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

Matt was most recently at Tesla, where he developed software to streamline the design, fabrication, and construction processes for the company's Gigafactories. 

Throughout his career, Matt has been instrumental in integrating computational and generative design with digital fabrication tools and robotics, presenting his work at conferences such as ACADIA, SmartGeometry, and Robots in Architecture.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University with Minor in Business, Concentration in Computer Science.

Lira Nikolovska is an architect, entrepreneur and design leader driven by a passion for creating transformative user experiences across range of industries and technologies including BIM, HMI, pervasive computing, AI for consumer electronics, mobile and cloud applications for building operations.

Before joining Motif, Lira was at Autodesk as a Director of XD for the BIM Product Line Group, co-founder of Building Ops and Sr UX Architect on the Revit team. At Philips, she worked on visioning and design for emerging technologies at Philips Strategic Design in The Netherlands and Philips Research Labs NY.

Lira holds a PhD in Design Computation from MIT School of Architecture, taught at RISD and has served as a chair, curator and reviewer for conferences including SIGGRAPH, ACADIA, SimAUD and CHI. She holds 17 patents and is recipient of the ACADIA 2012 Award for Innovative Research.