We are happy to announce that Dr. Meinolf Sellmann will take on the role as CEO of InsideOpt on April 1, 2025.
In his role as founding CTO, Meinolf has led the development of InsideOpt’s flagship product, the Seeker optimization solver. His visionary guidance has recently culminated in Seeker 2.0, the fourth official release since its market introduction in October 2023.
With his extensive technical expertise in OR and AI, Meinolf led the creation of a unique new tool that features groundbreaking capabilities:
1. Efficient, fully distributed optimization, from linear to non-convex and non-differentiable. Even on some traditional IP problems like the QAP, Seeker is three orders of magnitude faster than Gurobi.
2. Tailoring Seeker’s search strategy specifically to your problem via offline learning of search parameters that adapt search behavior during the optimization.
3. True, non-hierarchical multi-objective optimization.
4. Efficient stochastic optimization even with thousands of scenarios.
Seeker has opened the possibility for companies to rethink the limitations of traditional approaches and tackle problems that used to be out of reach before. This has made InsideOpt commercially successful, most recently doubling the annual revenue of 2024 in just the first three months of 2025.
We wholeheartedly thank our founding stealth CEO for her tireless work in making InsideOpt a profitable startup and wish Meinolf success in his new role as our first public CEO.
