Max Ary has accepted a new challenge leading the advanced projects group at Invena Corporation, a specialty design and manufacturing firm in rural Eureka, Kansas. Ary was the co-founder and long-time President/CEO of the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas, where he developed the museum into one of the top space attractions in the world. Hailed as "The King of Space Hardware" by Popular Science magazine, he has consulted for the Smithsonian, NASA, and numerous museums and educational organizations around the world and has acted as a technical advisor on several movies and television productions, including the Academy Award-winning "Apollo 13" and the Emmy Award-winning miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon."
Located far away from the usual tech industry hubs, Invena's story reads much like that of a small Hutchinson planetarium in 1976. "Invena is all about doing amazing things in the most unlikely places," says Invena president Matt Wilson, "We have followed Max's career for many years. He is the obvious choice to take us to the next level. The man has a Rolodex that starts with 'amazing' and works up from there."
Founded in 1998, Invena is a design-build manufacturing and support company that develops and supports equipment for customers in more than 20 countries.
posted 01-18-2011 02:31 PM
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