Jeffrey Blank Email & Phone Number

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Accountable for all aspects of the company. Responsible for establishing a positive brand, developing strategies, driving growth, leading teams, analyzing performance, making key decisions, and communicating with stakeholders, Evolve Additive invented and commercialized Selective Thermoplastic Electrophotographic Process (STEP) which delivers fully dense parts in real amorphous thermoplastic material. STEP delivers high fidelity and isotropic properties in all directions in materials geared for production. STEP is the only Additive Manufacturing technology built from the ground up specifically for real-world manufacturing.

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

As President, accountable for overall company leadership and delivery, including all go-to-market activities including sales and marketing, and overall financial success. As COO, responsible for bringing together engineering and operations to deliver a robust and reliable commercialization strategy and product roadmap. Focusing on scaling reliable and cost-effective products from concept to commercial success, in hardware, software, and materials.

Scaling inkjet printed high-value optics and EM technologies, and delivering commercial scaled products.NanoVox / Vadient Optics additively manufactures Gradient Refractive Index optics for VR, Lightfield, Lidar, Wafer Scale Sensors and other optical military and commercial applications. Our technology platform includes: tunable refractive index materials, AM fabrication processes, and optical design tools. The high and low index optical nanocomposite inks are printed to form optics, comprised of specific nanoparticle types and volumes, deposited in three-dimensional (3D) refractive-index gradient patterns that encode complex optical functions in the optics.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Focus on bringing operational clarity and new product delivery rigor to organizations and teams, via time-tested processes, crisp decision making, and collaborative leadership. Skilled at all product development levels, spanning from hands-on problem solving and technology innovation, to large-scale strategic development and commercial scale up.E78 Partners is a professional services firm with national resources, providing executive and board services on an interim, project and advisory basis. We deliver a broad range of strategic, operational and financial management services through vetted, expert team members who have an average of two decades of experience serving in leadership positions within the C-suite and boards of directors.

Rock Hill, Sc, Us

Direct report to CEO managing worldwide engineering organization. Responsible for all technology and product development for 3D Systems portfolio of Plastics, Metals, Software, and Materials product lines. Teams in USA, Belgium, France, Israel, Korea, and India. Officer of the company.

Rock Hill, Sc, Us

Responsible for 3D Systems Wilsonville Oregon R&D center and multiple Plastic Printer Business product lines. Oversee all engineering disciplines and roadmaps. • Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Multi-Jet Printing (MJP), Color Jet Printing, (CJP).• Established and delivered Culinary Printing product line with external food partner.

Rock Hill, Sc, Us

Direct report to CEO managing worldwide engineering organization. Owned delivery of Plastics, Metals, Software, and Materials product lines. Teams in USA, UK, Belgium, France, Korea, and India.

Rock Hill, Sc, Us

Established and led New Business Development engineering organization to partner with top tier consumer and business-to-business companies for 3D printing technology development.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Top engineering executive over the Oregon Xerox campus. Consistently deliver > 12% ROS to $2B Xerox Entry Products printer and multi-function product line. Own product and business strategy, roadmap development, and site engineering competency center. Manage both home-grown designs and acquired / OEM products (partnerships in Japan, Korea, India). Responsible for product strategy, resource allocation, budget, milestones, and coordination of inter-disciplinary team (engineering, marketing, finance, manufacturing, quality, customer support, etc.). Negotiate business relationships, contracts, roadmaps, and delivery from OEM partners. Focused executive in key sales cycles and large customer account interactions worldwide.Have led all product development disciplines: Mechanical, Software, Electrical, Chemical, Fluid Physics, Reliability and Test, Industrial Design, Human Factors. Manage site engineering infrastructure (model shop, chambers, regulatory, etc.). At its peak, managed 400+ person product development organization. $90M direct / $200M matrixed annual budget responsibility. $30M annual capital responsibility.Chief Engineer and architect for inkjet technology development and roadmap: products ranging from consumer/desktop printers, to enterprise devices, to production printing architectures, to industrial inkjet.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Established, architected, and launched $500M, 8 year program to scale Solid Ink technology from desktop printers to high-speed applications, doubling Xerox Enterprise Inkjet business. Added 100+ engineers to Wilsonville Xerox site in span of two years. Maintain extensive local engineering network.Established first world-wide delivery team for Xerox Inkjet technology and first Xerox product to launch directly from Asia. Transformed delivery model via teams in Oregon, New York, England, and SE Asia. Developed unique go-to-market business initiatives (3-tiered page pricing, Color for the price of Black and White) and sustainability initiatives (90% consumables waste reduction).

Beaverton, Or, Us

Managed design teams, systems teams and reliability teams for complex electro-mechanical projects. Spearheaded innovative new qualification tracking tools and failure analysis processes. Drove significant reduction in product warranty costs. Led efforts to move repairs from on-site to phone support. Hands-on part design (plastics, elastomers, structural, motion).Worked with Environmental Stress Screening, HALT / HASS, and accelerated life programs.

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Lead mechanical engineer on a nuclear weapon system design team, incorporating advanced safety, security, and reliability architectures. Held necessary DOE / DOD Secret Level security clearances. Direct leadership of mechanical design teams. Primary program contact with the U.S. Military.Designed, analyzed, and procured system structural components, component housings, fixtures, handling gear, shipping containers, and vacuum systems for glove box operations.Evaluated system and component environmental and material compatibility performance.Interfaced with EE and SW teams, and component, support, and production facilities across the country.

Master'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering. Focused Disciplines; Design, Systems Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Masters Of Business Administration. Focused Disciplines, Management, Strategy