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Adam Cohen

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Adam Cohen is Principal Consultant and CEO of Additive Insight and a pioneer and veteran of the 3-D Printing/Additive Manufacturing industry, with 27years of experience inventing, developing, and bringing to market three major 3-D printing technologies. Adam founded and held executive positions at two 3-D printing startups, and holds nearly 70 issued U.S. patents, mostly in the field of 3-D printing. Adam is also a professor of mechanical engineering at SMU, where he conducts research on advanced 3-D printing and robotics, and teaches design, prototyping, and robotics. As Director of SMU's Laboratory for Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, and Automation, Adam is leading a team to develop a breakthrough multi-material 3-D printing technology that will monolithically fabricate devices with embedded actuators, sensors, and circuitry. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the scholarly journal 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing and is an invited speaker at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo and the 3D Printer World Expo.

While at 3D Systems, Adam led the engineering team that developed the SLA-250, the 1st commercial 3-D printing machine. The SLA-250 was extremely successful, generating over $100M in revenue. He then co-founded and served as Vice President R&D for Soligen Technologies, the 1st company to bring to market MIT’s “3D Printing” technology, shipping the first machines to early customers just months after negotiating an exclusive worldwide license from MIT. Later, at the University of Southern California, he invented MICA Freeform (a.k.a EFAB), the 1st and only mass production 3-D printing process (and the 1st microscale 3-D printing process) to produce miniature metal components and fully-functional devices. He founded Microfabrica to market the technology, and as the company’s CEO, raised $17M in funding from top-tier VCs including Draper Fisher Jurvetson. As CTO and Executive Vice President, Adam brought the company into the medical device business, landing major customers and a $5 million NIH grant to develop miniature 3-D printed robotically-delivered devices for minimally-invasive cardiac surgery. Adam also created, published, and edited for many years the 1st periodical devoted to the 3-D printing industry, Rapid Prototyping Report. He holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from MIT.

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Adam Cohen is Principal Consultant and CEO of Additive Insight and a pioneer and veteran of the 3-D Printing/Additive Manufacturing industry, with 26 years of experience inventing, developing, and bringing to market three major 3-D Printing technologies. Adam founded and held executive positions at two 3-D Printing startups, and holds 60 issued U.S. patents, mostly in the field of 3-D Printing. While at 3D Systems, Adam led the engineering team that developed the SLA-250, the 1st commercial 3-D Printing machine. The SLA-250 was extremely successful, generating over $100M in revenue. He then co-founded and served as Vice President R&D for Soligen Technologies, the 1st company to bring to market MIT’s “3D Printing” technology, shipping the first machines to early customers just months after negotiating an exclusive worldwide license from MIT. Later, at the University of Southern California, he invented MICA Freeform (a.k.a EFAB), the 1st and only mass production 3-D Printing process (and the 1st microscale 3-D Printing process) to produce miniature metal components and fully-functional devices. He founded Microfabrica to market the technology, and as the company’s CEO, raised $17M in funding from top-tier VCs including Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Adam also created, published, and edited for many years the 1st periodical devoted to the 3-D Printing industry, Rapid Prototyping Report.

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If I could, I would rate Adam 6 stars!!! (out of 5). We spent 1.5 hours on a call to discuss every aspect of 3D printing from the 27 years of his personally history, to the current trends and future opportunities. I can't imagine there's anyone in the world more knowledgeable then Adam when it comes to the 3D printing (which I now refer to "Additive Manufacturing") industry. Call him. You won't regret it.

Dan Martell Source: Clarity

In April of 2011, I reached out to Adam to help eV3 Neurovascular/Covidien develop a new catheter that was more complex than any we had previously attempted. The catheter design was converging to a solution, and I sought an engineer to develop the processes that would produce consistent units in our pilot lab within 3 months. Since Adam had never worked on catheters, he might have appeared an unlikely choice. This was a high-visibility, high-stakes program, so I placed a premium on ability to deliver. Based on our 11 years working together, I knew Adam would achieve where others may stumble. Adam has a tremendous ability to dive quickly into a new field, initiate a rigorous engineering approach to determine a course of action, and then tirelessly pursue it while maintaining a good rapport with all team members. His deep yet broad background in design and process informs his approach, and allows him to identify opportunities that others who rely solely on experience may overlook. Experience alone may lead teams to poor choices if not backed by a solid grasp of engineering principles. Since Adam combines both experience and fundamentals, he turbocharges through new projects. Not only did Adam deliver the pilot line processes on time with an understaffed team, but he also co-developed a new catheter process that we are considering for a patent. This is typical work arc for Adam; he charges up the hill, executes the deliverables, and creates new ideas when others are still absorbing the staus quo. Working with Adam has been a highlight of my professional career. In addition, I have always been grateful for Adam's exceptional level of personal integrity, which I value tremendously. I would retain Adam again for any of our most critical, challenging projects.

Chris Folk Source: LinkedIn

Adam is a very-talented, creative individual--a founder of a pioneering company, Microfabrica. His uniquely innovative thinking would be an asset to any company looking for someone who can bring creative, outside-the-box, ideas. I always enjoyed my interactions with Adam.

Kevin Wasserstein Source: LinkedIn

Adam is simply the most consistently innovative person I have ever worked with. His inventive productivity is attested not only by the extraordinary number of patents he has authored, but also by their breadth. Adam has conceived commercially useful inventions in fields as diverse as microfabrication, minimally-invasive medical devices, MEMS, rapid prototyping, and electrochemistry. He is one of those very rare people who combine a penetrating intelligence with a sincere humility. This makes him a very effective listener, collaborator, and team player, able to readily grasp the ideas of others as well as originating his own. He is also intensely entrepreneurial. Adam has founded companies, developed platform technologies, raised venture funding, managed teams, and executed business plans in widely varying industries.

Michael Lockard Source: LinkedIn

If I were to describe Adam, the first word to come to mind is creative. He is one of the most creative and innovative people I know. Because of this strength, he is able to find a solution to almost any problem. He has solved countless process fabrication and design problems in his career at Microfabrica. It is hard to imagine where we would be without him. He also has an extensive knowledge base in many different fields, such as micro-manufacturing, radio frequency circuits, mechanical design and medical devices to name a few. What makes him such a valuable asset to the company is his ability to become an expert in a new field very quickly. He is an agile thinker and there is no doubt in my mind that he would be able to make a very positive impact on any organization in a very short period of time. He is detail-oriented, highly organized and has an insatiable appetite for learning. On a personal level, Adam is very humble, well-respected and has a great sense of humor. I’m glad to have the privilege of working with him.

Richard Chen Source: LinkedIn

In my eighteen year career as an engineer and manager, Adam stands out as one of the most intelligent, innovative and inspiring people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. I reported directly to Adam for four years and consider myself very fortunate to have had him as a mentor and manager. Adam’s curiosity and energy are contagious and everyone that worked for him came to expect more of themselves and of the team. Adam is an exceptionally creative and innovative thinker. After inventing the technology on which Microfabrica was founded, Adam has continued to be the most prolific contributor to the company’s extensive portfolio of patents. Lastly, Adam is the most humble and ethical person I know and someone with whom I much enjoy working.

Uri Frodis Source: LinkedIn

Adam is the founder of Microfabrica, the main inventor of the company’s process technology, and is named on over 160 of the company’s issued and pending U.S. patents. He is a prolific thinker and creative problem solver, and has been an indispensible member of the company’s technical brain trust in tackling a large number of challenges Microfabrica faced in process and materials development and device design. Moreover, Adam led the activity to identify and develop medical applications for Microfabrica, rapidly becoming highly conversant with a wide range of clinical needs, medical devices, and procedures; designing several ingenious devices; and landing early customers and a major NIH grant. Last but not least, he has played a key role in marketing and evangelizing the company’s technology over the years, and has excelled at establishing close relationships with customers. Adam has been indispensible in setting the tone for the level of dedication we needed to make meaningful progress: any project he takes on, he applies all of himself to the task selflessly, thinking through every aspect and detail, improvising almost effortlessly on resources, and getting things done. He is very driven, and does not need any prompting to pitch in and immerse himself in tackling problems, whether by himself or while managing a technical team. A strong team player, he is also brutally honest and egoless when it comes to the best interests of the company, and he never hesitates to volunteer whenever he is needed.

Vacit Arat Source: LinkedIn

Adam not only invented the fundamentals of Microfabrica’s technology, he has repeatedly shown his inventiveness -not to mention his breadth of knowledge and ability to learn- by researching and identifying new application areas. He single-handedly identified opportunities and designed proof-of-concept medical devices to demonstrate the viability of the medical market. These became the “spark” which
provided the necessary credibility to establish a medical device product line and propel the company into this new application area.
Both his inquisitiveness, which leads him to find better solutions, and his focus, which enables him to successfully tackle challenging goals
without getting sidetracked, serve him well as a technologist. Adam is also humble, which allows him to keep an open mind and enables him to learn from others and adopt their suggestions when appropriate. It continues to be a pleasure to work with Adam; he's someone I definitely want on my team now and in the future.

Ira Feldman Source: LinkedIn

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