Arno Held started AM Ventures together with Johann Oberhofer in 2014. In total, Arno has more than 23 years of experience in industrial laser and manufacturing technologies and spent more than half of this time in the world of industrial 3D printing. Today he is Managing Partner of the fund and specializes on the AM Ventures ecosystem, as well as the firm’s global footprint and organizational growth.

Since founding AM Ventures, Arno has been instrumental in building the AM Ventures team that has scouted more than 2.500 3D printing startups all over the world, conducted more than 30 rounds and built a portfolio of 15+ shareholdings in 6 countries on 3 continents.

Arno holds a diploma degree in industrial engineering and management from the University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe (Germany) as well as an international executive MBA from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). Arno completed his studies in Shanghai, China and Cape Town, South Africa.

Matthew is CEO of 3D Matters, and has also been recently appointed as CEO of 3D Metalforge, the sister company of 3D Matters that operates one of Asia’s leading Additive Manufacturing Centre (AMC) dedicated to providing industry standard, cost-effective end-to-end metal printing.

Matthew built his career as a globally accomplished senior executive managing senior operational teams for over two decades with MNCs such as McKinsey & Co. and Keppel Integrated Engineering. While he has been based in Singapore for over 15 years and is now a Singapore citizen, he has worked extensively across Asia Pacific, Australia and Middle East with functional expertise in project management, EPC projects, planning, oil and gas and waste water EPC projects, large scale construction and shipping operations.

Okan Okutgen is currently the General Manager of APAC at Formlabs Inc-leading desktop 3D printing company. Okan joined Formlabs in 2017 as Sales Operations and Strategy Lead. He helped scale the geographical expansion of Formlabs. After setting up a new partner program to grow Formlabs with value added resellers, Okan worked on introducing and growing Formlabs in new markets in Latin America and APAC. As Formlabs grew with increasing sales and investments, Okan and his team ensured sales and sales operations scaled and enabled further growth. Okan has also focused commercial operations to ensure each new product of Formlabs was introduced to markets globally. Okan has earned a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineer from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Before joining Formlabs Okan has worked as management consultant at Bain & Company to partner with management of leading industrial goods and services companies to improve their operations and unlock more sales growth.

Phil Inagaki is Managing Director at Xora, an early-stage, deep tech investment platform of Temasek.

Most recently, he was an Operating Partner with The Engine, a $500M AUM, early stage deep tech venture fund with ties to MIT. Prior to his investor roles, he held Co-Founder, CEO and Executive Chairman roles at venture-backed start-ups in a variety of deep tech fields, including advanced materials, semiconductors, nanotechnology, micro-electronics, energy, 3D printing, robotics and AI. His longest tenure was as Co-Founder and CEO of Polyera, where he took a novel semiconductor technology from Northwestern University to successful commercialization with fab partners in Asia.

Phil holds an A.B. in Physics from Princeton University magna cum laude and 12 US patents.

Suchi has almost 20 years of experience in venture building, product development, business strategy and corporate partnerships across global markets, with a strong focus in Australia and Asia. In her current capacity as Director – Advanced Manufacturing & Venture Building , Suchi acts as a lead to new projects, provides business-building guidance in areas such as business planning, commercial strategy and scaling growth to new and ‘built-from-scratch’ Deep Tech startups.

Prior to SGInnovate, she was Vice President, Sales and Service at Gartner, where she was providing strategic advisory to APAC leaders on go-to-market, business development as well as commercial strategies in Asia. An engineer by training, she has a particular interest in Robotics, Health-tech and Artificial Intelligence. She is also passionate about supporting more women in pursuing an education and career in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Jon Meyer started his career at Airbus in 2005 and discovered Additive Manufacturing early on, thanks to the pioneering work being done at Airbus on the application of the technology. Following on from working on the A350XWB programme he moved into Research & Technology in 2009 and led the development of applications of Metal Powder Bed Fusion technologies, including the development of the Scalmalloy® material, and the proprietary Hyperjoint technology.

In 2017 he became the Technology Roadmap Owner for Additive Manufacturing across the whole of Airbus, with responsibility for defining the AM technology strategy at group level.
At the end of 2018 he joined APWORKS as Chief Product Officer, responsible for product strategy and implementation. APWORKS is a spin-off of Airbus, with a mission to apply the AM technologies & Intellectual Property developed by Airbus across a broader industrial scope including Motorsport, Automotive, and Robotics, in addition to the traditional Aerospace, Defence & Space segments.

After her graduation in Business Chemistry and her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the University of Mainz, Henrike has gained various professional experiences at BASF over the past 10 years. Starting as a lab team lead in Organic Electronics Research, she subsequently was part of the core team building BASF’s subsidiary trinamiX GmbH – her first intrapreneurial start-up experience followed by a position in business model innovation at the digitalization department of BASF.
Henrike is now one of the co-founders and COO of Replique – a venture of BASF’s incubator Chemovator GmbH.

After completing his master in product design in Antwerp and Barcelona, Stijn continued his studies with an extra year of environmental sciences. When he started to work in a design team for large installations in environmental technology, he combined his passion for innovation with the principles of sustainability.

In 2006 Stijn joined the Manufacturing team of Materialise. While many companies were only using AM as a prototype technology, he started to explore with companies in very different industries how AM can bring them more strategic business value. In 2014 Stijn joined the Software team of Materialise, where he focused on understanding the needs of companies that want to manage and control the entire digital manufacturing workflow.

Today, Stijn is part of the Materialise Mindware team, where he uses his passion for innovation and his  15 years of experience with AM applications to guide companies through their AM journey.

Spare Parts 3D is a French startup, with presence in Asia and in Europe, created by Paul Guillaumot in 2015. It provides an additive manufacturing (AM) software solution to identify, scan and 3D print spare parts. The company has 11 employees and has equity capital of € 4.5m, with a turnover of € 400k. The majority of the team has a technical background, with a management team coming from top engineering and business schools.

Spare Parts 3D specializes in the digitization of spare parts inventories for 3D printing via a qualified production network in over 25 countries. The constitution of digitized spare parts inventories enables customers, equipment manufacturers and large industrial groups, to solve their stock management and supply chain issues, thanks to our software which matches the best fitting AM supplier to print a given part with a given technology.

Joris Peels is the Vice President of Consulting for SmarTech Analysis, which delivers industry analysis, data and market forecasts for the 3D printing/additive manufacturing industry. He also provides multinationals and startups with strategic advice and does technical due diligence for investors in the 3D Printing space.

In over 20 years in the life sciences, Mike has brought four novel products through the FDA that have generated over $20 billion in sales in both startup and growth organizations. Throughout his career, he has worked on the forefront of medical technologies, translating highly complex products and clinical data into successful businesses, both in the US and around the world. Mike holds a BS in Engineering Physics and an M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, as well as an MBA with high distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School.

Benny Buller is VELO3D’s founder and has served as VELO3D’s Chief Executive Officer and a member of VELO3D’s board of directors since June 2014. From April 2012 to June 2014, Mr. Buller was an investor at Khosla Ventures, a venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, Mr. Buller worked at Applied Materials, a semiconductor company, Solyndra, Inc., an energy company, and First Solar, a solar company, where he founded the device physics team. Mr. Buller holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Applied Physics from Jerusalem University. He also holds an M.Sc. in Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Arthur is a structural engineer, architect, and leader in circular economy innovation with MINIWIZ, a trash material technology company he started in 2005. The mission of MINIWIZ is to UPCYCLE decades of single-use environmental “pollution” into sustainable smart building “solution” of the future.

Arthur’s MINIWIZ team leapfrogs existing technology / empowers circular economy for all communities. MW technology platform captures the value of single-use plastic, metal, glass through decentralized waste transformation machines to convert industrial and household wastes into sustainable building materials, building modules, specialty fabrics, designer furniture/fixtures. After 2 decades of innovation focusing on impactful upcycling technologies powered by a multi-national/multidisciplinary team, MINIWIZ is now offering its modular infrastructure as an ESG specialty contractor to the global market to make circular concept into physical reality. MW’s upcycled experimental products already implemented in over 300,000 sqm of commercial retail, hotels and offices across major international cities.

Under Arthur’s leadership, MINIWIZ has received numerous international invention patents in manufacturing processes / mechanical assemblies to enable circular consumption. Arthur was recognized by various international institutions including the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award, Obama’s Emerging Leader, the Financial Times’ Earth Award, and The Wall Street Journal’s Asian InnovaJon Award.

Arthur has been a National Geographic Emerging Explorer since 2016 and the World Economic Forum recognized him as the Runner up for The Circular Leadership Award 2019 Davos. In February 2019, the World Economic Forum named MINIWIZ as one of the top 11 companies leading the way to a circular economy.

My professional objective is to work at the frontiers of technological R&D and to lead projects that have the potential of making the world a better place to live in.

Aditya Chandavarkar is a established entrepreneur with business interests in manufacturing, innovative technology, training consulting. He is the co-founder of CNT Expositions and Services (acronym for Catalysing New Technologies) where is closely associated with cutting edge application industries for inkjet, 3D Printing (aka Additive Manufacturing) and Packaging.

His new venture – Additive Academy – aims to provide cutting edge and comprehensive Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Training in partnership with global partners The Barnes Global Advisors, ASTM CoE and Purdue University.

Aditya speaks at leading conferences in India and worldwide on the development and evolution of inkjet printing and Additive manufacturing.

He is also a Director at Silversheen Inks & Coatings Pvt. Ltd., a company which is involved in the manufacturing of printing inks, & coatings.

Central to my personal and professional ambitions is to leave this world better than I found it. To this end, I am extremely interested in opportunities focused around the confluence of the private and public sectors and their ability to drive positive change. I see the efficiencies and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the private sector as substantial assets to solving the problems that have, to this point, primarily been tackled by public sector. Areas of expertise include:

– Manufacturing Ecosystems
– Digital Traceability in Manufacturing Supply Chains
– Additive Manufacturing
– Sustainable Manufacturing
– Experienced in advanced regression analysis and program evaluation

Prior to his role as Senior Director, Ronen was previously a senior manager at the LEGO Group’s front-end technology development. Working on scouting, assessing and developing new technologies from a wide array of industries, and understanding strategic and business opportunities and threats. Managing a test facility to have hands-on experience with new technologies. Forming and developing relationships with partners, research centers, universities, and suppliers.

Frank Rosengreen Lorenzen is the CEO of Danish AM Hub – the focal point for Additive Manufacturing (AM) in Denmark. For 13 years Frank has been working with innovation, technology and strategy for both Danish and international companies and authorities. Today focus is on AM and how to strengthen Danish business competitiveness by promoting the use of AM and 3D printing with business models that induce growth, innovation and especially create a sustainable production system and solutions.

Alvin brings his strength in technology foresight to the Assistive Technology (AT) domain, and seeks to infuse a fresh perspective on the acceptance and use of AT in Singapore. He strongly believes in the potential of technology for social good, and aims to realise this potential through his role as a Technology Catalyst. Through technology, he seeks to empower persons with disabilities by enhancing their capabilities in technology use, and help persons with disabilities be more engaged with society.

“The consumerisation of 3D printing provides opportunities to quickly create effective and affordable solutions for persons with disabilities. Coupled with the digitally-connected global community, one single useful design can be replicated across the world easily, and bringing benefits to many.”

Michael is the 3D Printing Industry Editor-in-chief. With almost a decade reporting and researching 3DP, Michael runs the leading website for news about additive manufacturing. He is a regular keynote speaker and moderator at technology conferences. As a former investment analyst focused on emerging technology, Michael is interested in both the science and economic implications of additive manufacturing.