S. Scott Crump
Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
S. Scott Crump has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board since Stratasys' inception in 1988 and as Chief Financial Officer from February 1990 to May 1997. Mr. Crump along with his wife Lisa H. Crump, a co-founder of Stratasys, are the inventors of Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling® (FDM) technology. During the period from 1982 to 1988, Mr. Crump was a co-founder and Vice President of Sales of IDEA, Inc., which later changed its name to SI Technologies, Inc., a leading manufacturer of force, load and pressure tranducers. Mr. Crump continued to be a director and shareholder of the company until its sale to Vishay Intertechnologies, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) in April 2005. Mr. Crump, a registered engineer, is the son of Ralph E. Crump, director of Stratasys, Inc.
Ralph E. Crump
Director
Ralph E. Crump has been a director of Stratasys since 1990. Mr. Crump is President of Crump Industrial Group, an investment firm located in Trumbull, Connecticut. He was a founder and director of Osmonics, Inc., now GE Osmonics, a manufacturer of reverse osmosis water filtration devices, until it was acquired by General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) in February 2003. Mr. Crump was chairman of SI Technologies, Inc. until April 1, 2005 when it was sold to Vishay Intertechnologies, Inc. (NYSE: VSH). In 1962, Mr. Crump founded Frigitronics, Inc., a manufacturer of ophthalmic goods and medical instruments, and was its President and Chairman of the Board until it was acquired by Revlon in 1986. Mr. Crump is also a director of Mity Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITY), a manufacturer of institutional furniture. He is a Trustee of the Alumni Foundation of UCLA and a member of the Board of Overseers for the Thayer Engineering School at Dartmouth College. Mr. Crump is the father of S. Scott Crump.
Edward J. Fierko
Director
Edward J. Fierko has been a director of Stratasys since February 2002. Since May 2003, Mr. Fierko has been President of EJF Associates, a consulting firm. From March 2003 to May 2003, Mr. Fierko was Vice President of GE Osmonics, Inc., a manufacturer of reverse osmosis water filtration devices. From November 1999 through February 2003, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Osmonics, and from November 1998 to September 1999 he served as Executive Vice President of Osmonics. From September 1987 to August 1998, Mr. Fierko was President and CEO of Ecowater International, a holding company with operating companies in the water, waste and special process treatment industry. Prior to that, Mr. Fierko held several management positions over a 23-year career at General Electric Company.
John McEleney
Director
John McEleney has more than 20 years of CAD industry leadership and product development experience. As CEO from 2001 to June 2007, McEleney steered SolidWorks to continued record growth, with more than a quarter of a billion dollars in revenues in 2006 and more than half a million users worldwide. Prior to joining SolidWorks, he held several key management positions at CAD software pioneer Computervision and at defense contractor Raytheon. McEleney holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester, a master’s degree in manufacturing systems from Boston University, and a master’s degree in business administration and marketing from Northeastern University. He serves on the board of directors for SolidWorks Corporation as well as Newforma ( a privately held software company in Manchester, NH).
Clifford H. Schwieter
Director
Clifford H. Schwieter has been a director of Stratasys since 1994. In 2002, Mr. Schwieter became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Concise Logic, Inc., a software development company focused on semiconductor design tools. From 1994 to 2002, Mr. Schwieter was the President and a Managing Director of C.H. Schwieter and Associates, a management and financial consulting firm. From July 1992 to March 1994, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Centric Engineering Systems, Inc., which was engaged in the development of mechanical design and analysis software for computing systems ranging from workstations to mainframes and massively parallel networked computing environments. Mr. Schwieter was Vice President and General Manager of the Electronic Imaging Systems Division of the DuPont Company from 1986 to 1991. From 1971 to 1986, Mr. Schwieter was with the General Electric Company, where he served as Vice President of GE’s Calma Company from 1985 to 1986 and was responsible for that subsidiary’s worldwide business in the mechanical design and factory automation arena. He was President and Representative Director of GE Industrial Automation, Ltd., a joint venture between GE and C. Itoh & Company located in Tokyo, from 1982 to 1985.
Gregory L. Wilson
Director
Gregory L. Wilson has been a director of Stratasys since 1994. Mr. Wilson is, with his wife Kathy R. Wilson, a co-founder of Mity Enterprises, Inc., a manufacturer of institutional furniture, and has served as Chairman of the Board of that company since its inception in 1987. From its inception until May 2002, he also served as President of Mity. From 1982 until 1987, Mr. Wilson was President of Church Furnishings, Inc., in Provo, Utah. Mr. Wilson served as a Financial Analyst at the Ford Motor Company and as General Manager of the Stereo Optical Company in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Wilson also serves on the board of directors of Broda Enterprises, Waterloo, Ontario, a manufacturer and distributor of geriatric transport devices, The Central Utah Advisory Board for Wells Fargo Bank and Design Imaging, Inc.