Meet your new community manager

Meet your new community manager

Dear i.materialisers,

I would like to thank Alex for his hard work in initiating the i.materialise community and wish him well in the new studies he will be pursuing. I’m very proud and happy to take the baton from his hands and become your new Community Manager.

As your Community Manager, I hope to make your lives easier by helping you take your ideas and turn them into products. The next few months I will focus on making i.materialise an easier and more lively place to get things made. I will also be in charge of getting the word out and telling everyone about the great designs and products you make. At the same time I want to listen. I will call as many of you as I can to try to understand what it is that you need for us to be.

I thrive on feedback, and hope to get lots of it from you. If you have any questions, complaints or ideas please email me. I want you to consider me your employee. I work for you, our community, and I am tasked with making you as happy as possible.

Next to me of course we also have our Customer Services team of Karen, Vova and Vlad. They will continue to help you get any of your designs fixed and answer any of your questions about your orders. See me as the guy to contact regarding any other more general questions or issues with your entire i.materialise experience.

If you are a company that wants to work with us you can contact one of our three i.materialise Business Development people: Michael for Germany, Hiro for Japan and our Business Development Manager Martijn for Djibouti (and the rest of the world besides). For any marketing, event & PR related matters;  for web development issues or suggestions for our production teams, feel free to contact me. I can be reached at joris (at) i.materialise (dot) com

In total the i.materialise team now consists of 17 people and I will introduce them all to you over the coming weeks. Actually the team is much bigger because we are supported by our mother company, Materialise. It’s actually quite daunting to work for Materialise. It’s a bit nerve wracking to look across the lunch tables and see experts in their respective field’s everywhere,people with 15 or even 20 years experience in 3D printing. This company has unparalleled depth and breadth of expertise in 3D printing (as well as being the largest 3D printing facility in the world and market leader in 3D printing software). Our team at i.materialise is the youngest scion of this Materialise family. I hope our work can do justice to the collective knowledge and effort of all other Materialise employees,as well as the effort of you, our community.

I know that right now I have over 900 Materialise employees that both have my back and are at the same time looking over my shoulder. This inspires me with confidence and only makes me more driven to make this the best place in the world to turn your idea into your product.

We are at the cusp of a revolution in how many things are designed and manufactured. With a little luck and a lot of hard work we could make this revolution a reality.

Let’s do this!

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