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).
Alain Hubrecht is President, Chief Technology Officer, and a cofounder of VRcontext. He worked for 15 years in Computer Aided Design at Tractebel Energy Engineering (TEE), now part of Suez Group, where he led the Virtual Reality team. He has assisted TEE’s research unit in power plants projects of all types and has developed activities in visualization and training tools for complex industrial environments. He has been an expert in Virtual Reality for the European Commission for 7 years and is now NATO expert for Homeland Security projects. Alain has also been a founder and is an active shareholder of different start-ups in the CAD field. He is an Architect from the Higher Institute of Architecture of La Cambre (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).
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