Former Greenwich Resident Jenny Lawton Appointed to President of MakerBot

MakerBot, a global leader in the desktop 3D printing industry, is pleased to announce the promotion of Jennifer (Jenny) Lawton to president.  Lawton previously held the title of Chief Strategy Officer.  She has been with MakerBot since 2011 and has been responsible for the overall strategy and growth of the company, including strategic partnerships, product development, and retail. Lawton is a former Greenwich, Conn., resident, and now resides in Fairfield, Conn.

Her promotion to president is in conjunction with the acquisition announcement by MakerBot and Stratasys on June 19, 2013.  Under the proposed merger with Stratasys, MakerBot will remain an independent brand and the company will continue to be managed by its current leadership team, headed by Bre Pettis, CEO and co-founder, and Jenny Lawton, president.

“Jenny is a huge asset to MakerBot,” noted Bre Pettis, CEO of MakerBot.  “She’s my right-hand.  Without Jenny we wouldn’t be where we are today. She has helped lead us to the next exciting phase for MakerBot. And she is building an infrastructure that helps the team innovate, invent and improve on a daily basis.”

Lawton will be tasked with overseeing the integration of the proposed merger for MakerBot, growing the company and managing a six-member leadership team managing products, sales, marketing, technology, finance and manufacturing operations.

Jenny Lawton has a long history with transforming entrepreneurial start-ups into viable technology companies.  In 1991, Lawton co-founded Net Daemons Associates (NDA), an information technology consulting firm. With Lawton as CEO, NDA was recognized on the 1998 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, and on the Deloitte and Touche Fast 50 and Fast 500 lists for 1997 and 1998.

In 2001, Lawton left the corporate world to become the owner of two independent bookstores in Greenwich, Conn. And in 2011 Lawton re-entered the technology world, first serving as COO for Rockin’ Water and RAM Scientific, and later becoming SVP Operations for Mercury Solar Systems.

Lawton is on the Board of Directors at the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership.  She holds her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Union College.

MakerBot is one of the leaders in the desktop 3D printing industry, and is fueling the Next Industrial Revolution with its 3D printers.  As part of the 3D movement, MakerBot is focused on creating a 3D Printing Ecosystem that drives the accessibility and rapid adoption of its desktop 3D printers. It includes Thingiverse.com, the largest collection of downloadable digital designs for making physical objects, empowered by a growing community of makers and creators.  The MakerBot 3D Ecosystem also includes MakerWare software, MakerCare service, MakerBot Filament, the MakerBot Retail Store, the MakerBot 3D Photo Booth, and strategic partnerships including Autodesk, Microsoft, Adafruit, Nokia, OUYA, MoMA and Amazon.  MakerBot recently announced the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, another extension to the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem.

About MakerBot

Founded in 2009, Brooklyn-based MakerBot has grown to be a leader in desktop 3D printing. MakerBot Desktop 3D Printers are used by engineers, designers, researchers, and people who just like to make things.  The MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Printer has been named Popular Mechanics’ “Overall Winner” for best 3D printer and has won numerous awards, including being honored as one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2012; “Best Emerging Tech” at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show; Popular Mechanics’ Editor’s Choice Award; the Popular Science Product of the Year; a TechCrunch Crunchies Award for best hardware start-up; and a Fast Company 2012 Innovation by Design Award. MakerBot was named by Fast Company as “One of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Consumer Electronics” and highlighted in Entrepreneur magazine’s “100 Brilliant Companies.”  The company has been featured on the cover of WIRED, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Inc., Worth, The Colbert Report, Fast Company, Engadget, Make: Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time.com, Entrepreneur, CNN, Financial Times, National Public Radio, Vogue Italia and many others. Follow MakerBot at MakerBot.com.