Company Overview
Company Boilerplate
contextere is an industrial software company focused on human performance. Our intelligent personal agent delivers actionable insights to the last tactical mile. Anywhere warm hands touch cold steel contextere answers the simple question – Now What? Global 2000 companies capture value through increased productivity and safety while reducing equipment downtime.
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Branding
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Founder's Bios and Images
CEO Gabe Batstone
Gabe Batstone is the co-founder & CEO of contextere. He brings to the company 19 years of experience in software development across multiple industries around the globe. This has included initiatives in the digital oilfield, intelligent vehicles, virtual reality, augmented reality, and big data. Gabe has worked for technology leaders in the aerospace & defense, automotive, and energy markets including NAVTEQ, CAE, and NGRAIN.
Gabe serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian American Business Council (CABC) promoting continental trade policy. Gabe also founded Teagan’s Voice a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children’s rights following the murder of his 8-year-old daughter in December 2014.
Gabe holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts, specializing in Geographic Information Systems, from Ryerson University in Toronto and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Baltimore. Gabe is a frequent public speaker, published writer, and has completed postgraduate studies at the United Nations Institute for Training & Research, University of Chicago and Harvard Law School.
CSO Carl Byers
As co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Contextere, Carl drives integrated R&D, product development, and collaborative partnerships. Carl serves as President of the AREA, a not-for-profit organization focused on accelerating the adoption of augmented reality in the enterprise. He is also co-founder and director of United World Voices, a registered charity dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable persons and communities in Canada, India, and Africa.
Carl Byers applies thirty years of experience in modeling and simulation, virtual environments, and augmented reality to software applications that improve knowledge-based productivity enhancement and decision making in complex distributed organizations. Throughout his career, he has actively developed strategic relationships between companies and academic institutions to accelerate the development of new products and reduce the barriers to commercialization.
Carl holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Schülich School of Business in Toronto, a Master’s in Human Security & Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University in Victoria, and a Bachelor’s in Applied Science in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University at Kingston.
