Erik Klaas is the CTO and co-founder of 8tree. He co-founded 8tree to create very easy-to-use, application-specific, white-light-scanning systems that revolutionize the user experience with augmented reality and gesture-based techniques. Previously, during a 20-year career at Breuckmann GmbH, he held a variety of engineering and project management roles, and served as CTO of the company during the last 10 years. Klaas obtained his engineering degree in optical 3D metrology and color topometry from the Cologne University of Applied Science.