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.

Dan McPeters is delivery owner for advance technology research at Newport News Shipbuilding. Dan has over 15 years of shipbuilding experience, ranging from naval nuclear systems design, secure network build-out and delivery, and information technology application and toolset development. He is the leading expert at NNS in Augment Reality (AR) capabilities, AR vendor platforms, and custom AR solutions that aid the shipbuilder and engineer in naval construction.

Dan owns and executes the roadmap for a broad aperture of applied research into Machine Learning (ML), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Industrial Internet of Things (IIot), and cloud solutions.

Marc Schuetz is VP of Vuforia Product Management at PTC where he is responsible for the strategy and roadmap of the Vuforia Studio Suite.

Marc joined PTC Product Management in 2011, working on the development of the PTC Creo Options Modeler, Unite Technology and the Performance Advisor for PTC Creo – PTC’s first smart connected product. He was instrumental in developing PTC’s point of view on the Digital Twin and participated in the development of Vuforia View, a component of the Vuforia Studio Suite.

Marc began his career with PTC Germany in 2005.

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.

Michael Leone is the Director of Lenovo’s Commercial AR/VR project, a hardware and software incubation start-up within Lenovo. Michael has worked in the software business for 25 years, beginning as a government consultant for Oracle. Early on, he had great experiences at two Java startups focusing on enterprise mobility and virtual machines that shipped in over 200 million phones. He joined Motorola in 2006, leading teams creating designer/developer tools, SVG engines, user experiences and a 3DUI engine. More recently, he was COO for Core Technologies and AR startup Paracosm.