The Faces of Additive Manufacturing: Gil Lavi

After Avi Reichental and Hanan Gothait, we continue our series on additive manufacturing personalities with Gil Lavi. This industry pioneer began his career in the 2000s, working for the manufacturer Objet Geometries (now Stratasys) before embarking on his own entrepreneurial adventure. How has Gil coped with the rapid changes in the market in recent years? What opportunities and challenges still exist in the market? 3Dnatives went to meet him to find out more.

3DN: Could you tell our readers about your previous experience in AM?

I joined the industry 13 years ago when starting at Objet Geometries when it was a unique startup in the landscape of the industry. At that time, there were no more than a dozen 3D printing companies in the industry, so it was a time of believing in a great vision. I spent 10 years in the company including three years after the merger with Stratasys, building and managing the company’s sales partners in Europe, and later on the company’s EMEA strategic accounts. In 2015, I left the company, looking for innovative startup companies to help them build their go-to-market strategy and deploy their global channel networks.

3DN: What about your current work in the AM industry?

Over the years, I met many 3D printing resellers that were looking for promising products to sell but had limited resources to filter down and choose the right products. On the other hand, I met dozens of 3D printing startup companies that were looking to build their global channel networks, but were lacking the experience and the reach to professional sales partners.