Maker, Manufacturing, Creative Industries
Ping Fu
Founder, Entrepreneur, Author, Future-Maker
Ping Fu describes herself as an artist and a scientist whose chosen expression is business. Honored by Inc. Magazine as “The Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2005, she co-founded Geomagic, a leading US software company that pioneers 3D technologies that fundamentally change the way products are designed and manufactured around the world.
From repairing vintage cars at Jay Leno’s garage to preserving US treasures and digitally recreating the Statue of Liberty, Geomagic enables the design and production of one-of-a-kind products and services at a cost lower than that of mass production. Geomagic was acquired by 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) in February 2013. Awards for her leadership include Outstanding American by Choice Award from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Carolinas), and Life Time Achievements award by Business Leader magazine.
Before co-founding Geomagic, Ms. Fu was program manager of visualization at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she was part of the team that initiated and managed the NCSA Mosaic software project that led to Netscape and Internet Explorer. She has more than 20 years of software industry experience in database, networking, geometry processing, and computer graphics.
Current board roles include Burning Man, Gelsight Inc ( Exec Chairman), The Long Now Foundation, Capstone Green Energy, and Advisory Board roles for Modern Meadow and the International Advisory Board of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (UAE)
Ping holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and studied Chinese literature at Suzhou University in China. Her 2013 memoir “Bend, Not Break: Life in two worlds”, is a New York Times best seller.
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Ping Fu describes herself as an artist and a scientist whose chosen expression is business. Honored by Inc. Magazine as “The Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2005, she co-founded Geomagic, a leading US software company that pioneers 3D technologies that fundamentally change the way products are designed and manufactured around the world.
From repairing vintage cars at Jay Leno’s garage to preserving US treasures and digitally recreating the Statue of Liberty, Geomagic enables the design and production of one-of-a-kind products and services at a cost lower than that of mass production. Geomagic was acquired by 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) in February 2013. Awards for her leadership include Outstanding American by Choice Award from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Carolinas), and Life Time Achievements award by Business Leader magazine.
Before co-founding Geomagic, Ms. Fu was program manager of visualization at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where she was part of the team that initiated and managed the NCSA Mosaic software project that led to Netscape and Internet Explorer. She has more than 20 years of software industry experience in database, networking, geometry processing, and computer graphics.
Current board roles include Burning Man, Gelsight Inc ( Exec Chairman), The Long Now Foundation, Capstone Green Energy, and Advisory Board roles for Modern Meadow and the International Advisory Board of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation (UAE)
Ping holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and studied Chinese literature at Suzhou University in China. Her 2013 memoir “Bend, Not Break: Life in two worlds”, is a New York Times best seller.
