Member Spotlight

August 19, 2025 Pierre Gonnetan, Arkema Pierre Gonnetan leads Arkema’s global 3D printing business, focusing on high-performance thermoplastics including bio-based Rilsan® PA11, Orgasol® PA12, and Pebax® elastomers. A strong advocate for sustainability, performance, and innovation, Pierre and the Arkema 3D team have played a key role in building strategic partnerships and advancing additive manufacturing toward […]

November 5, 2024 Gerret Lukas and Moritz Kolter, ACAM Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing Gerret Lukas is Managing Director at the Aachen Center for Additive Manufacturing (ACAM). Aside from his role at the ACAM, Lukas leads the Department for Corporate Development at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL at RWTH Aachen University

April 29, 2024 Salvador Ortega, NatureWorks Salvador Ortega is a seasoned Global Marketing Manager for NatureWorks – a world-leading company that invents and manufactures high performing biopolymers and applications called Ingeo™️. In his current role, Salvador is responsible for developing business strategy and engaging with customers in various segments including 3D Printing. With over nineteen

March 27, 2024 Laura Ely, The Barnes Global Advisors Laura is Managing Director of The Barnes Global Advisors. Laura specializes in driving technological change in organizations. This includes translating technical roadmaps into strategic business visions and vice versa, building business cases, securing capital and operating funding, protecting, and exploiting intellectual property, and collaborating across the

January 22, 2024 Greg Gratson, Stryker Greg Gratson is currently Director, Advanced Operations at Stryker focusing on Business Development for the AMagine® Institute, Stryker’s center of excellence for additive manufacturing. In this role, he is responsible for developing the strategy, business models and partnerships to grow platform technologies, like Additive Manufacturing, across Stryker. Including his

October 19, 2023 Aleksander Ciszek, 3YOURMIND Aleksander Ciszek is fascinated by the future of Production and Supply Chain. He is the CEO and co-founder of 3YOURMIND, which enables On-Demand Manufacturing. As the industrial world is profoundly changing, Aleksander is working with forward-looking manufacturing leaders and innovation-driven energy, transportation, and defense companies committed to adapting their

September 14, 2023 Pieter Ruijssenaars, DiManEx Pieter Ruijssenaars has a master’s degree in business administration. He has a broad entrepreneurial background, both in establishing companies in the digital space and helping start-ups and scale-ups to grow. He is particularly interested in innovative solutions that change old ways of doing things and offer new possibilities that

August 17, 2023 Tim Lantzsch, Fraunhofer ILT Tim Lantzsch is Head of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Department at Fraunhofer-Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) in Aachen, Germany. After graduating from RWTH Aachen University in 2018 with a Master’s Degree in industrial engineering, Tim worked in different positions at Fraunhofer ILT with a special focus in machines

July 19, 2023 Martin Back, BASF Forward AM As of August 1, 2022, Martin Back took over as Managing Director of BASF Forward AM. With 25 years of industry experience in management roles, Martin Back is intimately familiar with the Additive and Manufacturing industries, having already served as Managing Director of BigRep GmbH from 2018

June 21, 2023 Frank Roberts, President Frank is the President of 6K Additive where he led the concept and construction of the recently built 6K Additive Global Manufacturing Center. The new facility is a 45-acre, 80,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art production facility for premium additive manufacturing powders. This facility is ISO9001 certified and is currently in