About Evolve

Chief Executive Officer

Prior to joining Evolve, Jeff spent two decades in the 2D printing industry, delivering printers for Tektronix and Xerox Corporation. While at Xerox, he served as Vice President of the Entry Products Delivery Unit and as Chief Engineer and Architect for inkjet technology development and roadmap. He oversaw products ranging from consumer and desktop printers to enterprise devices, production printing architectures, and industrial inkjet systems.

Jeff then moved to 3D Systems, where he spent eight years managing the worldwide engineering organization. His responsibilities included all technology and product development for the 3D Systems portfolio of plastics, metals, software, and materials.

Throughout his career, Jeff has conceived, led, and delivered more than 40 products across consumer, enterprise, and business-to-business markets. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Portland.

Senior Vice President, Emerging Technologies & Applications

Arun brings more than 30 years of technology and commercialization leadership experience from his work at NexPress and Kodak. As CTO and Vice President of the NexPress joint venture, he led technology and commercialization teams in the U.S. and Germany to bring one of the highest-quality and most reliable digital printing presses to market in record time. In addition, he established a high-value materials business for NexPress.

At Kodak, Arun served as Portfolio Director of the EP Imaging portfolio, where he built a strategic portfolio of more than 1,000 patents.

Arun holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Vice President of Sales & Applications

John brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in product development, technology innovation, and manufacturing of industrial production equipment.

As Director of Engineering at Bosch Packaging Technology, he led the global rationalization of product lines and advanced the company’s systems engineering practice. At Optomec, he served as Vice President of Engineering, where he developed micron-scale, five-axis-motion Aerosol Jet printers. Earlier in his career at Tetra Pak, John led the development of injection molding, recycling, and numerous other technology, manufacturing, and organizational innovations.

John holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a Master of Science in Management of Technology from Chalmers University.

Principal Investor, 3D Ventures

Hugh Evans is an active investor, operator and entrepreneur in the Additive Manufacturing sector. He has invested in numerous 3D Printing startups, and serves on the Board of Directors and as an Advisor to many projects. From 2013 to 2019, he served as SVP, Corporate Development and Digitization at 3D Systems Corporation. During that period, he also served on the Board of Directors at AquaVentures Holdings (NYSE: “WAAS”; sold to Culligan for $1.1 billion on 03/30/20).

Hugh Previously worked for 21 years as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price Associates in Baltimore, MD. He started his career in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Morgan Stanley & Co. He received his BA from the University of Virginia (Jefferson Scholar) and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Arjay Miller Scholar).