Eric Davis Co-found Davis Tool Systems with Gary Young, and Chris Meister of Avela Corporation a sourcing specialty company in the Fall of 2019 to bring Eric's inventions and ideas to life.

To describe me as a constant tinkerer and woodworker wouldn't be far off, throw in 35 years in the airline industry helped form many of my ideas through the benefit of travelling and seeing so much variety.

Brining new perspectives on tools and their industrial design is not an easy challenge, but I have never shied away from one and want to build a truly unique brand that enables the ingenuity of people to create solutions to their tough problems.

With much help along the way from many incredible people and organizations our compelling tool system was born . The challenges of covid did not deter us from our path but only emboldened our resolve and gave us time to make improvements.

Getting our products in the hands of people to ensure that they can see the quality and the broader vision of what the tools can do with the new DAVIS connector technology. It is with this that the start of something new begins and we hope that you will join us on this journey to improve tool functionality through ergonomic control and optimizations in both tools and production of tools.

Gary Young received his Bachelor of Science from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. After gaining a real-world education serving in leadership capacities for various companies, Mr. Young launched his own company, Vela Productions, in 1984 which specialized in educational publishing. He then launched a second company in 1988, Ad Lib, a boutique advertising agency.

Mr. Young operated both ventures separately, until merging the two in 1996 to create a full-service advertising agency called Avela Corporation. The name derives from the “A” in Ad Lib followed by “Vela,” the name of his first business. Avela Corp.

When Mr. Young visited China in 2002, he had no idea that the visit would change the course of his life and the direction of his company. Captivated by the Chinese culture and the country’s business dynamic, Young transformed Avela Corporation from an ad agency to a company that would source products and services for his existing ad-agency customer base. Since then, his list of clientele has grown tremendously, as has his knowledge of and appreciation of China, its people, and its customs.

Mr. Young is married with three adult sons, all of whom are electrical engineers. He is a member of Vistage International; enjoys dividing time between his home bases of Houston, Texas, and Shanghai; is a seasoned world traveler, and is an avid reader of science and technology literature.

Chris Meister brings
a multifaceted background to his position as Marketing Director for Davis Tool
Systems that includes graphic design and consumer safety messaging for a
Fortune 500 corporation. Rounding out his resumé is his experience as a
business owner and a writer with published articles and books on a diverse
range of history to his credit. He lives in Royal Oak, Michigan.