Dr. Davis is a physicist entrepreneur with an emphasis on new technology transition from the laboratory to manufacturing.  He has spent his career inventing, developing, and commercializing a wide variety of technologies.  As a co-founder and VP of technology at Vescent he led the development of non-mechanical beamsteerers and oversaw the asset sale of that technology to Analog Devices for the autonomous vehicles market. 

He came back to Vescent as CEO in 2020. Since then, he has been leading the development of technologies and products, such as compact laser systems for trapping and cooling atoms, compact and deployable frequency combs, miniature spectroscopic standards, and other tools aimed at furthering the development and deployment of quantum systems.  He has over 30 papers published, has co-authored two book chapters, and has twenty-seven patents pending and/or issued.