Meet Our Leadership Team


Blake Teipel, Ph.D.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Blake is the CEO and a co-founder of Essentium Inc., where he is responsible for managing the company’s fast-growing business across the world. Essentium is pioneering multiple 3D printing technologies that remove the current limitations surrounding additive manufacturing, allowing factory floors everywhere to be transformed. 

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Lars Uffhausen

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Co-founder

Lars Uffhausen is the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Co-founder of Essentium Inc. In his duties as Chief Operation Officer, Lars is responsible for overseeing the overall business operations strategy, empowering the operational team with the leadership and resources they need to successfully deliver innovative 3D printing, high-speed extrusion technology, crucial for Essentium’s growth and success. Lars also acts as Essentium’s Chief Financial Officer, responsible for the day-to-day financial operations of the company. Under his direction, Essentium has raised one of the highest Series A funding in the history of additive manufacturing. 

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Erik Gjovik

Chief Product Officer and Co-founder

Erik Gjøvik is the Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Essentium Inc. Erik leads Essentium’s product vision and strategy to deliver groundbreaking 3D printing solutions that transform industrial additive manufacturing. In his role as Chief Product Officer, Erik has led the development of innovative 3D printing solutions to solve the historic challenges of speed, strength and scale that many manufacturers have faced when trying to deploy additive manufacturing in their production workflows. His outstanding development of business structures and practices has resulted in industry-leading, exceptional quality and high-performance products. 

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Terry MacNeish

Head of R&D for Machines and Co-founder

Terry MacNeish is the Head of Research and Development for Machines at Essentium Inc. Terry is responsible for driving the innovation behind the company’s ground-breaking high-speed, high-precision 3D printing systems. His team have achieved numerous patents for machine solutions that disrupt traditional manufacturing processes enabling manufacturers to shift the role of additive manufacturing from prototyping to full scale production. 

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Brandon Sweeney, ph.d.

Head of R&D for Materials and Co-founder

Brandon Sweeney is the Head of Research and Development and Co-founder at Essentium Inc. Brandon leads research and development into the ground-breaking materials Essentium is creating to revolutionize industrial additive manufacturing.  In his role, Brandon has been instrumental in researching the bleeding-edge material science needed to bring Essentium’s 3D printing technology to life. Brandon’s work at Essentium combines breakthroughs in thermoplastic polymer 3D printing through its proprietary military grade electric field technology and carbon nanotube-coated filament, the company’s FlashFuse™ filament  technology, which together more than doubles the interlayer strength of a traditional 3D printed component.

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Elisa Teipel, Ph.D.

Vice President of Innovation and Co-founder 

Elisa Teipel is the Vice President of Innovation and Co-founder of Essentium Inc. Elisa is responsible for customer-centric innovation by leading cross-functional engineering teams for new products and services to digitally transform businesses and disrupt the traditional manufacturing market. In her role as VP of Innovation, Elisa is focused on new technologies to enable complete and no comprise 3D printing solutions that remove the barriers of speed, strength and scale to accelerate industrial scale additive manufacturing. 

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Ryan Vano

Head of Filament Production and Co-founder

Ryan Vano is Head of Filament Production and Co-founder of Essentium Inc. Ryan is responsible for developing and launching class-leading functional filaments for additive manufacturing applications, helping customers make the leap from prototyping to full-scale production.  In this role, Ryan created the first multi-layer thermoplastic filament for additive manufacturing and led the development and production of an entire portfolio of engineering grade materials. 

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