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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the 3D Printing space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Slava Solonitsyn
CEO and Co-Founder of Mighty Buildings
10 years building companies and investing in startups in Hard Tech, Interactive Digital Media and Gaming. Expert in identifying market opportunities and shaping products for them. Building sales and marketing operations for startups from the ground up. Co-founded hardware incubator Ruvento Ventures which he then scaled to seep capital firm with portfolio companies spanning across Asia, Europe, and the USA. The portfolio includes frontier tech companies such as Boom, Solugen, Eight Sleep, and others.
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About Mighty Buildings: Mighty Buildings is a construction technology company that creates sustainable high-quality homes using 3D printing and robotic automation
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO of Fictiv
Dave Evans co-founded Fictiv and serves as its CEO in pursuit of his mission to democratize manufacturing. Fictiv’s virtual manufacturing platform pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Prior to Fictiv, Dave was the first hire at Ford’s Silicon Valley Lab which is part of Ford’s Global Research and Advanced Engineering Division. While there, Dave was Lead Hardware Engineer on OpenXC, an open source software and hardware platform to extend customer’s vehicles with custom applications and pluggable modules. In this role, he manufactured hardware for 500+ unit production runs including injection molding, PCB fabrication, box design and assembly. He was also responsible for designing, prototyping, and sourcing hardware builds at the Lab. Dave also proudly led the Stanford University Affiliates project for Ford in the mechanical engineering senior design course.
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About Fictiv: Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Kevin Czinger
Founder and CEO of Divergent 3D
Kevin Czinger serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Miles Electric Vehicles. He has extensive operating experience and a proven track record of performance in start-up and emerging growth companies. Czinger has served as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs, Bertelsmann AG, the Webvan Group and Global Signal. He has also been active at Benchmark Capital and as a senior Managing Director of Fortress Private Equity Funds.
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About Divergent 3D: Divergent 3D aims to revolutionize the auto industry through 3D printing.
Suz Somersall
CEO & Co-Founder of KiraKira3D
Serial entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of KiraKira, engineering educational company & mobile 3D modelling app. KiraKira is an Intel-Capital backed startup based in Silicon Valley, partnering with companies like HP and Autodesk to democratize access to 3D modelling and 3D printing. Studied art and engineering at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design. Featured in Fast Company this year as 100 Most Creative People in Business.
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About KiraKira3D: KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application
Benny Buller
Founder & CEO of Velo3D
Benny Buller started his career in Israel in the Technology unit of the intelligence forces. While there he learned to appreciate the values of imaginative innovation, precise execution, team work, diversity of opinions and that there is no impossible mission to the ones who dare. For his unique contributions, he was awarded by the president, the prestigious national security award. Benny then joined Applied Materials, where he led the work on semiconductor wafer inspection platform and later on electron beam mask writing system, becoming aware to the new growth opportunities in Solar, he decided to leave Applied Materials and join his first start-up, Solyndra. Joining Solyndra as VP of back end technology and engineering in its earliest stage he defined the company’s product by a series of inventions that became the company’s core IP. He hired an excellent team and led it from early concept through product demonstration, manufacturing process development, equipment design and early scale up. However, as the cost model was firming up, he became convinced, four years before the company’s collapse that the company’s cost structure is fundamentally inferior to First Solar, the cost leader of the industry Impressed by First Solar’s cost advantage and its momentum he joined First Solar as director of device physics and built this team. He pushed it from support of incremental improvements to more radical device research and innovation, resulting in crushing of the CdTe cell and module efficiency world records. . After being promoted to VP Module integration, heading all the technology development for the CdTe PV module, he reorganized the development department and realigned its processes, methods and interactions with the manufacturing organization that resulted in doubling the module efficiency improvement rate. Benny graduated from the Jerusalem University in Physics. He is also an Electrical Engineering (communications) graduate from the Technion in Israel. He has more than 70 published patent applications as well as more than 15 granted patents. Benny is married to his lovely wife Ronit and they have four children. His favorite way of spending his free time is by hiking with his family. He can be reached at [email protected].
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About Velo3D: Velo3D is a digital manufacturing company using a Sapphire 3D production printer and flow print preparation software to print 3D metals.
Chris Prucha
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is an additive manufacturing platform designed for mass production
Eythor Bender
Co-Founder and CEO of UNYQ
Eythor Bender, the CEO/Co-founder of UNYQ has worked in the prosthetics and bionics industry for 20+ years including leadership roles at two successful startup exits including CEO at Ekso Bionics (IPO) and President at Ossur (IPO), the manufacturer of the prosthetic legs used by ‘blade runner’ Oscar Pistorius in the Olympics.
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About Singularity University, UNYQ: UNYQ is a global medical device company with industry-leading innovative mass customized orthopedic products
Melanie Matheu
CO-Founder & CEO of Prellis Biologics
Matheu co-founded Prellis Biologics in October 2016, with the mission to create fully vascularized human tissues and organs for transplantation. Her realization that the tiny blood vessels necessary for creating human organs could be replicated using the laser technology at the center of her PhD thesis work, led to development of the blended engineering and biology approach Prellis is using to solve the human organ shortage. Dr. Matheu is an expert in laser-based imaging of the immune system and developed Prellis’ platform technology. She brings her multi-disciplinary experience in specialized laser microscopy, cell biology, physiology, and biophysics to address the unsolved biomedical challenge of rapid 3D printing of large, vascularized tissues.
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About Prellis Biologics: Prellis employs holographic tissue printing technology with rapid fully human antibody discovery, in vitro human disease and ADME/Tox models
Alexa Fleischman
CEO and Co-founder of Savvy Society
Currently transforming the shopping experience with 3D visuals, with experience in enterprise technology and retail as founder of custom shoe company Savvy Society and previous roles spanning product and sales at EMC & Box.
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About Savvy Society, Strypes: Girls fashion brand that enables girls to design and wear custom shoes using 3D printing.
Alexander Wong
CEO & Founder of Alexander Wong, Inc.
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About Alexander Wong, Inc.: The premier designer and manufacturer of high-end, luxury wearables and electronics.
Ian Yang
CEO of Gantri
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About Gantri: Creative platform for design products.
Ted Sorom
Co-Founder and CEO of Mantle
Ted Sorom is CEO & Co-founder at NanoCore.
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About Mantle: Mantle is metal 3D printing company that has developed technology for precision metal components such as tooling.
Jeri Ellsworth
CEO of Tilt Five
Jeri Ellsworth is best known for creating C64 Direct-to-TV, the Commodore 64 emulator joystick. On a single computer chip, the C64DTV runs thirty 1980s video games and was exceedingly popular during the 2004 Christmas season. At peak, the C64DTV sold over 70,000 units in a single day.
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About Tilt Five: Tilt Five is a Holographic Tabletop Gaming Company.
John Dogru
CEO / Chief Architect of 3DPrinterOS
Co-Founder of 3DPrinterOS
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About 3DPrinterOS, Secured 3d: 3DPrinterOS is the world’s first operating system for 3D printers.
Jan-Michael Tressler
Founder & CEO of Trnio
Founder of Trnio.
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About Trnio: Trnio is a mobile application that enables its users to use their mobile devices to perform 3D scanning.
Sandra Madrigal
CEO of ProtoCafe
With a BA in Psychology and an MA in Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University, the 3D printing industry might not have seemed the perfect fit for Sandra. However, while working at Sun Microsystems in its Industrial Design/Human Factors Group she realized the massive inefficiencies in the design and product development processes and decided to solve this problem. With over 10 years of experience in this field, Sandra has advised countless clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies on finding the proper solutions to their complex design problems. You could say she single-handedly built the 3D printing market of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About ProtoCafe: ProtoCafe is an industry leader in the bay area for design, rapid prototyping, and manufacturing services.
Jerald Yun
Founder and CEO of Tytus3D
Jerald Yun is the founder and CEO of Tytus3D.
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About Tytus3D: Tytus3D is a 3D printing startup that develops metal 3D printer.
Tony Tryba
CEO of EFD Corp
Tony is a 30+ year veteran of the semiconductor and embedded software industries and held executive and senior management positions at both public and private companies in these industries. Mr. Tryba is CEO of Selah Venture Group and his executive management experience includes General management and Corporate Development at Formfactor, Inc. ( FORM), Technoprobe America, Applied Materials (AMAT) and Wind River Systems ( WIND) which was acquired by Intel. Prior to developing equipment and various markets for these companies, Mr. Tryba worked in Motorola’s Advanced Products R&D Lab and at Texas Instruments. Mr. Tryba was a member of the SEMATECH start-up team and holds a BS in Manufacturing from Bradley University.
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About EFD Corp: EFD Corp.’s patented technology introduces revolutionary process for desalinating water in an economical & environmentally responsible way.
Henry Liu
Engineer/CEO of Full Spectrum Laser
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About Full Spectrum Laser: Full Spectrum Laser LLC focuses on producing lasers
