AREA Leadership

Paul Davies is an Electrical Engineer, and an Associate Technical Fellow in the Advanced Production Systems group in Boeing Research & Technology. He joined the company in 2003 as an intern, and has worked on multiple government and production programs, and both internal and external research projects. He is currently the principle investigator for technology development projects in Augmented Reality, Machine Vision and Advanced Visualization techniques in the manufacturing domain.

Christine Perey is the founder and principal analyst of PEREY Research & Consulting. She provides highly strategic research, business- and market-building related services with an emphasis on building robust strategies leading to the successful introduction and widespread adoption of Augmented Reality products and services.

Christine’s partnership with leading firms, universities, experts and users brings a total view of the landscape in which your products and services will compete. She advises vendors, technology and application providers, research institutes and network operators on the design, launch and operation of AR and IoT technologies.

Brian Vogelsang is Senior Director of Product Management for Qualcomm’s XR business group, where he is responsible for strategy and partnerships globally. Brian is a 20 year veteran of the wireless industry who believes that XR is the next evolution in mobile computing, and is passionate about making it happen. Prior to his current role in XR he spent 5 years developing hardware and software connectivity products for industrial and consumer IoT.

Gan provides leadership for 3DS’ collaboration with the systems engineering communities and represents the company in industry associations and standardization bodies.

He is an established leader in systems engineering with decades of experience in developing software-intensive systems.  Gan’s areas of specialty include systems engineering processes, system and enterprise architecture, design reuse methodology, cost estimating and analysis, and multi-criteria decision support methods.

Ryan invents impossible visualization apps that help Collins Aerospace in impossible ways with the excellence of impossible teammates.

These coveted solutions have brought Collins Aerospace nine-figure benefits and, MORE important, have removed tedium and frustration from the daily lives of literal thousands across Operations and Engineering.

Gus joined PTC in 2018 starting in the CAD division before moving to Augmented Reality soon after. During his time at PTC he has helped manage the launch of seven products and established the long term strategy for multiple product lines.

Prior to working at PTC, Gus spent time working as an engineer in the medical device, alternative energy, CPG, & recreational sports industries.

Gus received an MBA from Babson College with a focus in Entrepreneurship and High-Tech Business Management and a Mechanical Engineering degree from The University of Vermont.