Thomas Leurent is the CEO and Co-Founder of Akselos, a structural performance management company he co-founded in 2012, spinning its core technology out of MIT. Over the course of his career, Thomas has worked across energy, industry, and finance — including roles at the U.S. Department of Energy and at Alstom, where he focused on gas turbine sales. These experiences across the full energy value chain laid the foundation for Akselos, which he built to address a critical gap: understanding, in real time, how much structural life remains in the world's most critical industrial assets.
Under Thomas's leadership, Akselos has developed a proprietary physics-based simulation platform that runs structural analyses up to 100,000 times faster than traditional finite element analysis by blending machine learning with rigorous engineering physics — an approach refined over more than two decades. The company operates at the intersection of digital twin technology and structural integrity, serving major operators in offshore oil and gas and large downstream facilities including refineries. Akselos works in compliance with leading regulatory frameworks including API 579 and partners with class societies such as Lloyd's Register and the American Bureau of Shipping. In early 2025, Shell publicly credited Akselos with unlocking over half a billion dollars in value on a single FPSO asset.
Thomas holds a degree from MIT and splits his time between Switzerland, where Akselos is headquartered, and the United States.