Adam Cohen

Highly innovative engineer/manager with 26 years of technology and senior management experience spanning medical devices, advanced manufacturing processes, capital equipment, and business development and marketing of breakthrough products
Founded Microfabrica Inc. to bring to market a revolutionary manufacturing technology for high-volume production of micro- and millimeter-scale devices; as the company's CEO, raised $17M in equity funding
Led Microfabrica's successful entry into the medical device business, landing major customers and a $5M NIH grant to develop robotically-manipulated devices for minimally-invasive cardiac surgery, and helping to bring in an equity investment by top-tier medical device investors Versant Ventures and InterWest Partners
Inventor on ~170 issued and pending U.S. patents
Pioneer of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry
Co-founded, and served as Vice President of AMEX-traded Soligen Technologies, ranked in 2000 as one of Los Angeles' 50 fastest-growing tech companies; shipped complex AM equipment just seven months after starting development
At product line/program manager at 3D Systems, led the team that developed the first workhorse of the AM industry and the company's first successful product, generating over $100M in revenue
Founded an AM consulting/publishing firm, publishing the first industry periodical and directory
At Microfabrica and USC, brought in $10M in contracts and grants from NIH, DARPA, and NSF