Gerwin serves as Executive Vice President Cinema at Barco NV. He is an entrepreneur at heart and has advanced image science and technologies for the cinema industry over the last two decades both through tech start-ups and in established media and technology companies in R&D, business development and senior management roles. He joined Barco in 2016 through the acquisition of his start-up company that innovated in the fields of computer graphics, computational imaging and laser projection. Gerwin studied engineering in Germany and received a PhD in Computer Science (Graphics) from the University of British Columbia, Canada.