Category Archives: Profiles

Suz Somersall – “If you lead with creativity, the love for STEM will follow”

April 26, 2017 by Nora Toure

Maker from the age of 4, Suz Somersall has explored many mediums until she finally found her true passion in 3D modeling and 3D printing. After studying art and design as an undergraduate at Brown University she went on to study and teach at The Rhode Island School of Design – where she first was introduced to the world of 3D printing. Her latest startup – KiraKira3D – teaches kids about 3D printing through online art and design classes. Suz, […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: 3d modeling, Business, education, entrepreneur, technology

Uyen Tran – “The San Diego Public Library Innovation Lab is a place for the community to get together to learn and share new ideas with each other”

April 12, 2017 by Nora Toure

Uyen, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? I’m a trained librarian. I’ve worked in libraries my entire life. I first learned about 3d printing in 2013 when I heard that our library was getting two 3d printers. I didn’t know anything about 3d printer at the time, but always loved technologies so I offered to help. Next thing I know, I ended up running the makerspace at […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, education, manufacturing, technology

Lucy Beard – “3D printing was just the accident of the solution to the customer problem I found in finding shoes that fit”

March 29, 2017 by Nora Toure

Lucy Beard is a former mathematician and actuary who grew to love customers more than numbers during her years working as an executive in Silicon Valley. She experienced her entrepreneurial epiphany one day while she was shoe shopping and realized she could customize her coffee order, but when it came to buying shoes she was stuck with the same ten size options. She founded Feetz to reply to this shoe customer issue we all have. Lucy, could you let us […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, entrepreneur, fashion, healthcare, manufacturing, technology, Women

Laura Hockaday – “When I was pitched the idea of building a living heart valve replacement using 3D printing, I was blown away”

March 15, 2017 by Nora Toure

Laura Hockaday Kang attended Cornell University in the Biomedical Engineering Department. During that time she was awarded a GAANN fellowship, a Morgan fellowship, and graduate research NSF fellowship. She became a research assistant in Jonathan Butcher’s Cardiovascular Developmental Bioengineering Laboratory in 2008, and joined the heart valve bioprinting project. Laura is presently working as a postdoc in Germany at the University of Muenster/UKM, in the Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging. Laura, could you detail your first experience with 3D […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: bioprinting, healthcare, research, technology

Paulene Siew – “I was amazed at how a 3D printer can print out a model just within hours and I know this technology will definitely be an added advantage to many companies”

March 1, 2017 by Nora Toure

Paulene Siew is the the Operation Director for Singapore-based start-up 3D Printing Studios. We asked her about her background, thoughts about the A.M industry and how she handles being a woman in a man’s world. Paulene, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? After graduating with a Master’s degree in IT from Queensland University of Technology, I worked for a Fortune 100 global business software giant for 10 […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: asia, Business, design, entrepreneur, manufacturing, singapore, technology

Maria Elizete Kunkel -“The 3D Printed prosthesis was simple, functional and low cost, these are characteristics required for prosthesis development in countries such as Brazil”

February 15, 2017 by Nora Toure

Maria Elizete Kunkel is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics) at the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil. She also coordinates research projects in Assistive Technology fields at the Federal University of Sao Paulo UNIFESP and the Federal University of ABC UFABC. She studied Physics, Science Journalism and Biomechanics in both Brazil and Germany. She is building Mao3D, a platform dedicated to 3D Printing prosthetics for Brazilians. Maria, could you let us know about your background and what brought […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: education, entrepreneur, manufacturing, prosthetics, research, technology

Evy Wilkins – “The human body is unique. Any device that sits on or in the human body should be personalized!”

February 1, 2017 by Nora Toure

Evy Wilkins is the VP of Marketing at UNYQ, a company delivering personalized non-invasive orthopedic devices that improve quality of life and celebrate the user fashionably. UNYQ has built a platform for the digitalization, additive manufacturing and instrumentation of prosthetics and orthotics. Evy is a strategic and creative marketer with a passion for turning ideas into reality.

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, healthcare, manufacturing, technology

Stefani Pellinen-Chavez – “It helps if you try to look at how you can bring value and prove to others, but more importantly to yourself, that you have what it takes”

January 18, 2017 by Nora Toure

Stefani Pellinen-Chavez is a co-founder and the Chief Operations Officer of Ivaldi Group. Her expertise lies in identifying new opportunities and systems to generate higher efficiency and better customer experiences, and in refining existing systems to generate improved outcomes. A practicing attorney with experience as both CFO, in-house counsel and COO for a variety of startups, Stefani’s most recent role was as co-founder and Chief Operations Officer for Type A Machines, a provider of additive manufacturing equipment and services.

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Irene Presti – “3D Printing has a lot of potential but still lacks research, professionalization, and training”

January 4, 2017 by Nora Toure

Irene Presti is the woman behind almost all of the current Latin America’s initiatives in 3D Printing. She co-founded Like3D, a platform that provides design to 3d print solutions, but she also initiated and presides the Argentinian Association of 3D Printing and puts together the 3D Fashion Day every year. She also works on multiple other local events and dreams of exporting those events on a more international scale.

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Argentina, Business, education, entrepreneur, manufacturing, technology

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Stephania Stefanakou – “My biggest challenge as a woman entrepreneur is having a background in fashion”

December 21, 2016 by Nora Toure

Stephania went from studying all about the fashion industry to Tech, through IOT and wearable technology. Her creations combine mystery and fantasy and she always has in mind to make the viewer believe they live in a different world. She is currently working at Ryerson University’s Digital Media Experience Lab (DME) teaching and assisting Undergraduate and Graduate students with 3D Printing and Wearable Technology projects. Stephania, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, education, entrepreneur, fashion, manufacturing, technology

Sophie Kahn – “I struggle with the assumption that the technology is more advanced than it is”

December 7, 2016 by Nora Toure

Sophie, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in the first place? I trained as a photographer, but around 2003, after finishing my undergrad studies at Goldsmiths in London, I became somewhat frustrated with the limitations of photography. I was also becoming intrigued by 3D modeling, and so I enrolled in a Graduate Certificate program in Spatial Information Architecture at RMIT University in Melbourne. This was an interdisciplinary program, set up for […]

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, entrepreneur, manufacturing, technology

Raja Skogland – “We are at the beginning of an industrial and digital revolution where 3D technology will be playing a major role”

November 23, 2016 by Nora Toure

Raja has the real entrepreneur mind-set. She has started an advisory and investment company, is board advisory member for 3 others, and invested in 7 others, in addition to being the CCO for ShareMy3D… We asked her how she does it all.

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Marney Stapley – “Additive Manufacturing attracts some of the brightest minds in tech and innovation”

November 2, 2016 by Nora Toure

If you are in the Additive Manufacturing industry, you probably already know Marney as the Business Manager for Fabbaloo. Fabbaloo is one of the oldest 3D Printing blog. We, at Women in 3D Printing, are thrilled to count them as one of our early partners. It is with great pleasure that we are sharing Marney’s story here.

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Rachel Gordon – “3D Printing is starting to become an industrial manufacturing technique and become truly productive”

October 26, 2016 by Nora Toure

Rachel leads the research into 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing at IDTechEx, including writing market research reports, interviewing key players, consulting, curating conferences, and speaking at events around the world. She has a BA in Natural Sciences and first-class MSci in Materials Science and Metallurgy from Cambridge University. She has worked at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, the University of Goettingen, and the University of Technology in Hamburg.

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June Grant – “As a designer, my 3D printer is just as essential as my computer”

October 19, 2016 by Nora Toure

June Grant founded blink!LAB architecture as an integrated design, research and fabrication practice committed to the craft of buildings and solving real world problems. Their work is informed by the exploration of digital fabrication technologies. Those who attended this Saturday’s Girls’ Festival in Fort Mason saw the results of what June is able to put together, through her Geometry Pavillon installation.

Categories: Profiles • Tags: architecture, Business, entrepreneur, manufacturing, san francisco, technology

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SFmototype Challenge – Discussion with Lori Chen & Nancy Garcia von Kriegenbergh

October 12, 2016 by Nora Toure

SF Moto, a Bay Area local motorcycle store, and You3Dit, a 3D design platform, teamed up to bring the SFmototype Challenge. We talked to Nancy Garcia von Kriegenbergh and Lori Chen, two of the main actors in this project.

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, entrepreneur, manufacturing, technology

Carrie Motamedi – “3D printing is one of those technologies you need to get your hands on and learn by doing”

October 5, 2016 by Nora Toure

Carrie Motamedi is an evangelist for STEAM education and women in technology and business. She has a 15+ years experience in technology marketing and communication. She currently is on the Leadership Council for WorldWideWomen Girls’ Festival taking place October 15, 2016 at Fort Mason in San Francisco; A member of Alternatives in Action 20th Anniversary Committee, and Publicist for “A Revolution in Four Seasons” premiering in the US at the Margaret Mead Festival in New York on October 13, 2016. […]

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Emily Coker – “I’ve had way too many moments in a 3D printing lab where I’m the only woman”

September 28, 2016 by Nora Toure

Emily Coker is a multipotentialite who is passionate about empowering herself and others through hands-on learning and making. She used her competencies and skills at TechShop and Maker Media. She is now working and prototyping special projects in the Google X lab. No… we are not jealous!

Categories: Profiles • Tags: education, entrepreneur, manufacturing, technology

Lyndsey Lewis – “3D Printing will be able to mature in places where production infrastructure is broken”

September 21, 2016 by Nora Toure

Lyndsey is the co-founder of Reflow, which converts recyclable plastic into 3D print filaments using open source technology. She is explaining here how Reflow met all three of her perfect job requirements: technology, sustainability and social good.

Categories: Profiles • Tags: Business, entrepreneur, manufacturing, plastic, recylcing, technology

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Cathy Lewis – “With a focus on the customer and real application requirements, this industry has a fantastic future”

September 14, 2016 by Nora Toure

Cathy Lewis was the Chief Marketing Officer for 3D Systems from 2009 to mid 2016. Before that, she used to be the CEO for Desktop Factory from 2006 to 2009, placing her as one of the pioneer in the 3D Printing industry as we know it today. I believe we can even say that more than a pioneer, her role as C.M.O at 3D Systems placed her as one of the most influential person in the industry over the last 10 years.

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