Leif E. Pedersen served as Certara's President and Chief Commercial Officer from August 2023, after serving as President of Software from September 2020 to August 2023, and was a named executive officer for fiscal 2025. Before Certara he was a Senior Operating Partner at SymphonyAI, CEO of BIOVIA (a division of Dassault Systemes) from 2017 to 2019, and Executive Vice President at Innovative Interfaces. His career centers on commercial leadership of scientific and enterprise software businesses.