Board of Directors

Mr. Jeldi, 44, was appointed to serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Company in December of 2024.  Mr. Jeldi has served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of several companies over the past five years. Since October 2019, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Indiana Healthcare Solutions LLC, DBA Ink Staffing, a national healthcare staffing agency. Since December 2020, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Lite Magnesium Products Inc., which designs and manufactures magnesium-based products and components for the aerospace, automotive and other industries.  Since June 2023, he has served as  Chief Executive Officer and President of Crown Magnesium Inc., which extracts pure magnesium from ore materials.  In addition, since June  2023, Mr. Jeldi has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Arrayed Additive, Inc., which is engaged in magnesium and aluminum lightweight alloy additive manufacturing (3D printing) for the aerospace and defense industries.

Mr. Kreger, age 49, has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer since June 2024 until his resignation in December 2024. He previously served as Interim Chief Executive Officer from December 2023 through June 2024, and has been a class III Director of the Company since January 2024. Prior to serving as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Kreger served as the Company’s Executive Vice President of Operations from December 2022 to December 2023. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Senior Vice President, Global Operations at Fluidigm Corporation (now known as Standard BioTools Inc.), a manufacturing company for biological research equipment, from April 2018 to October 2022; as Senior Director, Operations, Clinical Sequencing Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a supplier of laboratory and scientific products and services, from December 2016 to March 2018; and as Vice President, Reagent Manufacturing at Affymetrix Incorporated, a manufacturing company for biological research equipment, from October 2013 to December 2016. Mr. Kreger holds a B.S. in Biotechnology and Business from Charter Oak State College and an M.S. in Management and Leadership and an M.B.A. from Western Governors University.

Michael Idelchik has served as a member of Velo3D's board of directors since July 2021. Mr. Idelchick spent 38 years at General Electric ("GE"), a multinational energy conglomerate, across several business units, culminating in his role as Vice President of Advanced Technology of GE Global Research, the research and development division of GE, for which he served for over a decade until 2017. Mr. Idelchik also serves as a member on a number of boards, including those of Singapore's National Research Foundation, Columbia Engineering and Ellis Medicine. Mr. Idelchik received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and a Master's degree in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Keppler is the chief executive officer of AM Scalation, an additive manufacturing consulting company, which he founded in April 2021. He previously held multiple positions at EOS GmbH (“EOS”), a global provider of 3D printing solutions, including serving as managing director from October 2019 to March 2021, chief executive officer from May 2017 to September 2019 and chief marketing officer from October 2012 to April 2017. Prior to EOS, he held different management positions within Siemens AG, a global manufacturing and technology company headquartered in Munich. Dr. Keppler currently serves on the advisory boards of Incus GmbH, a 3D printer manufacturer, AMFlow, a provider of end-to-end automation for 3D-printing factories, and Roboze, an industrial 3D printer manufacturer. He also serves as an industry advisor to PartsCloud GmbH, a provider of cloud-based logistics for spare parts, and as a member of the board of directors of Sun Metalon, Inc., a metal 3D printing manufacturer. Dr. Keppler holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and a degree in in Business Administration from the University of Zurich.

Stefan Krause has served as a member of Velo3D's board of directors since February 2021. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Canoo, an electric car company, from December 2017 to May 2020. He has served on two DAX Company Management Boards from May 2002 until December 2015. He served as Chief Financial Officer of Deutsche Bank AG and had held positions of increasing seniority at BMW AG, an automotive company, that began in 1987, where he eventually served as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Krause has served on many boards of public companies in Europe and the U.S. Mr. Krause holds an M.B.A. in Business Administration and Management from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg.