Executive Team
François Lagae is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, as well as cofounder, of VRcontext. He has a 25 years experience in IT, including 7 years as Chief Executive Officer of Wave Research/FilePool, a Belgian software success story bought by USA-based EMC, the worldwide data storage leader, and 5 years with Hewlett-Packard in international marketing and sales. François is also a board member for a number of other IT companies. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Louvain (Belgium).
Marc de Buyl joined VRcontext in 2007 as Vice President of the Americas and Managing Director for VRcontext LLC, based in Houston, Texas. With over 30 years in Energy, in Oil & Gas in particular, he brings relevant business and technical experience and a career history with the service industry, mainly designing E&P software applications and business processes. His career spans R&D, business development, and management responsibilities with Western Geophysical (now a Division of Schlumberger Oilfield Services); optimizing hydrocarbon reservoir management for Compagnie Générale de Géophysique; and heading up the Energy Management Consulting Group for Electronic Data Systems. His technical background is focused on earth sciences; Marc has an MSc in Geology from the University of Brussels, post-graduate studies in exploration seismology at the Colorado School of Mines, and an MBA from the West London Institute of Higher Education. He has published numerous articles and papers in trade journals, has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer, and is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
André Colin joined VRcontext in 2005 as Vice President - Business Development after spending more than 25 years in the software industry. He started his career as consultant in structural analysis with Control Data Corporation. He then joined Computervision, an historical leader in the CAD/CAM industry, where he had several International Sales Management positions. After spending 5 years as General Manager - Europe with CADSI, a developer of Dynamic Simulation software for the Mechanical Engineering sector, he worked as Vice President - Europe for Rand Worldwide, which sells and deploys a PLM-based solution. Andréholds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and a Ph.D. in Engineering from UCLA (USA).
 Hans Van den Wijngaert joined VRcontext in 2006 as Sales Director, after spending over 10 years in the Computer Aided Engineering software industry.He joined CADSI in 1996 as application engineer for Dynamic Simulation software for the Mechanical Industry. In 1999 he joined LMS International where he held different positions in International Presales support, Software Development, Marketing and Product Management for Functional Performance Simulation products used by the Automotive and Aerospace industry. Hans holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering (Major in Mechatronics) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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