KND
Our Team
Co-Founder.
Ms degree in Applied Mathematics
Dimitri Nicolopoulos
Prior to starting KND-SailingPerformance Dimitri participated in two Americas Cup cycles as design coordinator ( Areva Challenge and Deutsche Challenge), 2 Audi Med Cups as a performance analyst,
including a 2011 victory with Quantum Racing. He participated in a number of high-level projects including Abu Dhabi Volvo70 rig development, IMOCA60 SAFRAN 2011 bulb optimization,
performance development of the Bronze Medal Yngling for Beijing Olympics… Beyond sailing Dimitri brings to KND-SailingPerformance 15 years of high-tech management expertise in nuclear,
supercomputing, and automotive industries worldwide (CAE & CFD).
Within KND, Dimitri has been in charge of the RANS CFD for projects including Alegre IRC72, Tango Wally 100, L'Occitane IMOCA, Banque du Leman Class40. He has also provided performance analysis on-
site for the Alegre IRC72 and TP52 teams as well as Tango. He is also in charge of the performance analysis group and associated software developments.
Co-Founder.
Ms in Naval Architecture
Roland Kleiter
Before starting KND-SailingPerformance Roland helped develop the panel code “Das Boot” with Michael Richelsen and created, in combination with the NorthSails VPP,
one of the most effective sailboat optimization loops. He used these successfully within the Judel-Vrolijk design office on TP52 programs (Audi Med Cup winners in 2006 and 2007).
Roland was then involved with the German America’s Cup Design Teams (Illbruck Challenge, UITG & Deutsche Challenge).
After the Cup and before starting KND he was actively working on performance prediction programs, collaborating with racing designers such as the North Sails Design Group, Jason Ker, Reichel Pugh.
Within KND, Roland contributed to the design of many successful projects such as Alegre IRC72, Tango Wally 100, L'Occitane IMOCA, Banque du Leman Class40.
Ms. degree in Weather Forecasting
Valentin Le Pivert
Valentin joined KND in 2017, he is currently Director and partner of KND Marine France.
Ms. in weather forecasting from France´s ‘Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie’, Valentin has a strong dinghy racing background. Since joining KND, he developed the post-racing routing program ,the site effect analysis based on onboard data as well as the routing polars wave corrections methdology.
Within the performance team, he has been notably in charge in 2020 of the class40 Banque Du Leman and the TF35 Realteam. He has also spent 2 months sailing on L'Occitane IMOCA60
to work on the performance and electronics calibration before the start of the 2020 Vendee Globe.
In addition, Valentin is coordinating the development of ReXY.Team.
PhD in Molecular Biology
Anne Nicolopoulos
Anne was involved in the sailing industry working 5 years at Future Fibres before joining KND. Since then she has been taking care of the performance analysis of high-end programs including several TP52s: Quantum Racing, Gladiator, Vayu, Bronenosec... IRC72 Jethou, super maxi Rambler88, as well as the J Class Velsheda. Anne has been in charge of the 2017 Vendee Globe winner BanquePop VIII and
PRB for the 2020 edition.
Ms degree in Yacht Design
Maddalena Minasi
Maddalena joined KND Marine in july 2023, she is a member of the performance team (contributing to teams such as Flying Nikka and My Song) as well as the CFD group.
Maddalena decided to turn her passion into a career, and graduated in 2023 with a Ms degree in yacht design from Genoa University. While studying she participated in offshore racing as well as Melges20/J70 regattas to improve her sailing skills.
Ms degree in Engineering
Basile Lère
Basile joined KND-France in October 2023 after a 6 months internship dedicated to advanced upwash calibration techniques. He is working on performance analysis fromTP52 (Provezza, Alegre & Sled) to the IMOCA and Class 40 projects managed by KND-France. In addition Basile contributes to the developments of our ReXY suite of software.
Basile graduated from Arts et Metiers ParisTech and has a Master degree from Ecole Navale.
KND Alumnis
Delivering best in class performance optimization services wouldn't be possible without a great team. We are proud to see that those who learnt our values, methodologies & contributed to our success are joining some of the highest level teams.
Meng. in Yacht Engineering
Jose-Luis Ortin 2016-2023
Currently Sailing data analyst & naval architect
Meng. in Yacht Engineering from Auckland Univ. and in Naval Architecture from Cartagena Univ. Jose Luis’ passion for yachting saw him travel the world! After finishing his studies in Auckland
he worked with Jason Ker in England prior to joining KND in 2016 .
He has been in charge of various projects including SuperYacht Skorpios, TP52 Platoon MAPFRE, 2nd of the 2018 Volvo Ocean Race, and the TF35 flying cat Artexplora.
Jose Luis is the co-coordinator of the development of ReXY Team and lead developper of ReXY Gold.
On the design side, Jose Luis
has been leading the NYYC effort to develop a rating rule for racing multihulls, now ORC-mh. He is also involved in our CFD RANS activities.
Ms. degree in Engineering
David Rey
2015-2020
Currently SailGP
Ms. degree in Engineering from France’s ‘Arts et Metiers ParisTech’ and Spain’s ‘Polytecnico de Valencia’, David grew up in New Caledonia racing dinghies in the Pacific.
After one year at FutureFibres David joined KND to work on performance analysis as well as developing software.
Among various projects, David was in charge of the multi yacht performance analysis of the Quantum TP52 teams as well as the World Champion IRC72 Bella Mente. He has been on site performance analyst for the French SailGP Team in 2019 and 2020. David is also one of the active developers of the ReXY performance software.
Ms. in Aerospace
Andrea Emone
2017-2021
Currently America's Cup
Ms. in Aerospace Engineering from ‘’Universidad Polytecnica de Valencia’’. Andrea joined KND in 2017 for a long-term internship... and she never left! She has been a member of the performance team, working with
programs such as the TP52 Platoon, twice word Champion with Andrea providing the daily performance analysis reports.
In addition, Andrea is coordinating the development of our dinghy performance analysis software, ReXY Gold
Andrea has been racing windsurfs for years and participated in her first international race in Sopot, Poland, in 2012. She achieved a bronze medal in Torbole, Italy in 2014.
She also trained in the Olympic RS:X and IQFoil class.
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