Chairman, the Autonomy Institute Accelerating the “Path to Commerce” President/Chief Executive Officer - ATRIUS Industries, Inc.
Founder and Chairman of the Autonomy Institute. The Autonomy Institute is a 501c3 consortium of
over 100 industry, government, and academia organizations.
The core focus is accelerating the "Path to Commerce" for Intelligent and Autonomous
Infrastructure and autonomous systems.
Past positions: Founder/CEO Hangar Technologies, Inc., eCustomers, Inc., SMART Technologies,
Inc., and SMARTNAP. Mr. DeCoux has raised over $100 million for venture and
business operations. Mr. DeCoux has over 30 years of experience within the high-tech industries
where his attention has been focused on Founding companies that enhance
business productivity through automation.
Investment in a 21st-century Intelligent & Autonomous Infrastructure is among the highest
priorities for stimulating economic expansion, job growth, national security and resilience.
Edge computing, 5G wireless, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and an
ultra-resilient electrical grid will drive the largest infrastructure buildout in our nation’s history.
This next-generation infrastructure will enable the digital and physical, autonomous
world fueling a trillion-dollar economic expansion. This infrastructure will create new
highways to support more efficient mobility, automated city services, autonomous cars
and trucks, autonomous shuttles, air taxis, inspection drones, and many newer intelligent
city applications.
Mr. DeCoux is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ATRIUS Industries, Inc. With the
unprecedented advancement in autonomous robotics, ATRIUS was founded to leverage
these new innovations effect massive change across the industry. ATRIUS is working
with an ecosystem of partners to develop the Highways and Byways to support
more efficient mobility, automated city services, autonomous cars, and trucks, autonomous
shuttles, air taxis, inspection drones, and many intelligent city applications.
ATRIUS works with leading partners that focus on smart cities, autonomous systems, advanced
wireless networks, radars, UTM, position-navigation-timing, and Intelligent infrastructure
supporting autonomy.
Jeffrey DeCoux was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hangar Technology, Inc. Hangar had a goal of achieving a $100 billion savings by 2025 by producing draautonomy.
Institute Austin, Texas matic impacts on productivity and driving efficiency across some of the most demanding industries. Hangar worked with the leading ENR400 companies that focus on construction,
infrastructure, telecommunications, and mega-projects worldwide. Hangar developed the leading autopilot software used in 195 countries, by over 100,000 operators and executed one million missions worldwide.
In his prior experience, Mr. DeCoux was President and CEO of eCustomers, Inc. a leading
provider of Enterprise Customer Response software. eCustomers raised over $30 million
in financing and developed a leadership Board that included visionaries Allan
Loren (Executive VP at American Express); Bobby Martin (CIO, President of Walmart International);
Lou Hughes (President of GM International) and Gerald Storch (Vice
Chairman of Target). eCustomers was acquired in 2002.
Mr. DeCoux was a Founder and President/CEO of SMART Technologies, a leading
provider of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) software. Mr. DeCoux led SMART
through its incredible growth to hundreds of employees; the recruitment of a strong
management team and board including Jimmy Treybig (founder of Tandem), Andrew
Heller (IBM Fellow) and Peter Solvik (CIO at Cisco). Investors included Goldman Sachs,
SAP and Austin Ventures and worked with Fortune 100 corporations as customers. Mr.
DeCoux assured the acquisition of SMART Technologies by i2, which amounted to over
a billion-dollar acquisition.
SMART Technologies had also created a subsidiary called SMARTNAP. SMARTNAP Corporation
was the largest colocation provider of Internet services in Central Texas.
SMARTNAP provided dedicated fiber connections into BBNet, AT&T, MCI, and Time
Warner. In 1998, SMARTNAP was successfully acquired by Level 3 Communications.
Mr. DeCoux holds a deep knowledge of the technology industry and a lifelong passion
for innovation. He enjoys working with young engineers that have a passion for new
innovation or product advancement. He also has a passion for hands-on technology,
embedded systems, robotics, and most of all - anything autonomous. He is active in his
communities and serves as Director for his Community Association.