Mr. Ruport brings more than 30 years of public and private company experience in the software sector to his position at Sigma Additive Solutions as executive chairman.

Prior to joining Sigma Additive Solutions, Mr. Ruport served as Executive Chairman of Content Analyst Company, a leading developer of advanced analytics software for searching and analyzing unstructured text until its acquisition by its largest customer in 2017. Previously, he served as President and CEO of Configuresoft, a venture-backed Enterprise Systems Management company where Mr. Ruport orchestrated an OEM contract that later led to the acquisition of the company by EMC.

Prior to Configuresoft, Mr. Ruport served as Chairman and CEO of Optika, a venture-backed Enterprise Content Management Company that he led from a start-up of 30 employees through an Initial Public Offering, international growth and a successful transaction to merge with Stellent, Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Oracle. Mr. Ruport was also CEO of Interleaf, a public software company, and held senior executive positions at Informix (later acquired by IBM) and Cullinet (later acquired by CA, Inc.).

Mr. Ruport received a Bachelor of Science in Business and an MBA from Bowling Green State University.

Jacob Brunsberg joined Sigma Additive Solutions after holding senior P&L and strategy positions at General Electric Additive, the additive manufacturing division of General Electric (“GE”). In his current role, Mr. Brunsberg is responsible for leading Sigma Additive Solutions’ strategic relationships, product management and marketing programs.

From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Brunsberg was a P&L leader for General Electric’s Binder Jet Technology unit, with responsibility for strategy, development, commercialization, and overall business performance. He previously served as Sr. Managing Director of the Central Region, tasked with helping establish the US sales infrastructure for post-acquisition integration of several additive manufacturing technology companies including Concept Laser, Arcam and GEonX into the newly formed GE Additive business entity.

Prior to GE, Brunsberg worked for the American Roller Company in sales leadership and product marketing positions, responsible for the development and oversight of growth strategies, focused on advanced welding, cladding, thermal spray, and powder metallurgy technologies across a number of industrial markets. Mr. Brunsberg holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Material Science and Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Salvatore Battinelli served as Vice President of Development and Long-Term Strategy of North American Management Corporation, a wealth management firm based in Boston, Massachusetts with over $2 billion in assets under management. From 1987 to 2011, Mr. Battinelli served as Executive Vice-President and acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Faneuil Hall Associates, Inc., a concierge boutique family office devoted to five interrelated ultra-high net-worth families. Mr. Battinelli’s primary responsibilities while at Faneuil Hall Associates included providing planning and investment advice, the management of approximately 30 asset portfolios and more than 65 individual business entities; and assisting the families in their various business ventures worldwide.

During his tenure at Faneuil Hall Associates, Mr. Battinelli served as an executive officer or director for certain of the family owned entities and successfully managed several portfolio company IPOs, including serving as CEO and COO for Designhouse International, a Scandinavian furniture company operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, which was listed on NASDAQ in August 1983.

Mr. Battinelli also served as Audit Manager for Deloitte & Touche (formally Touche Ross), where he specialized in management information systems. Mr. Battinelli also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of HealthLink Europe, BV, a logistics and services company that serves the healthcare industry.

Mr. Battinelli is a Certified Public Accountant and received a bachelor’s degree in business with an emphasis on management accounting and an MBA with an emphasis in international economics and accounting, both from Babson College.

Dennis Duitch, CPA, has practiced public accounting, business management and consultancy for over 30 years, with expertise in strategic, financial & operations management for a broad spectrum of product companies and service firms, including technology, product manufacturing & distribution, real estate, entertainment, legal & professional practices.

He has been a top-level consultant to closely-held businesses, families & high-income/high-wealth entrepreneurs, in leadership roles including creative, structuring, operating and developing personal & business Plans.

With credentials including a Finance MBA degree from Northwestern University and certificates of specialty in Business Appraisal and Mediation, Dennis provides pragmatic counsel in business direction & planning, formation & forecasting, infrastructure development, continuity & succession/exit planning, and M&A cultural congruity.

He is also a Certified Estate Advisor and Mediator for matters including partner/shareholder disputes, divorce property settlement, dysfunctional families & Boards, and has served in executive officer/Board roles for public, private and not-for-profit organizations.

After serving with a national CPA firm, he founded Duitch & Franklin LLP which evolved to one of California’s largest independent professional firms when acquired by a public company. He currently serves as Managing Director for Duitch Consulting Group.

Mr. Summers currently divides his time among a number of independent activities which focus on early-stage technology company formation and development strategies, and sales planning and execution needs for emerging and mid-market technology companies located primarily in the Boston metropolitan area. These include management consultant to private and family-owned businesses; volunteer mentor and instructor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Venture Mentoring Services program; regular lectures on enterprise, business-to-business sales to company founders and students enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, the Harvard MBA Program, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a number of domestic and international entrepreneurship support organizations; and consultant to Fellows enrolled in the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. Mr. Summers has served in these roles at various times from 2003 to the present. From 2009 to the present, Mr. Summers has served as the non-executive Chairman of CADNexus, Inc., from 2017 to the present, Member, Board of Directors at iQ3 Connect, Inc., and from 2019 to the present, Member, Board of Managers at Massachusetts Materials Technology LLC.

From 2005 to 2017, Mr. Summers served as Managing Partner at Practical Computer Applications, Inc., a Boston-based database consulting and engineering services firm, where he was responsible for sales planning and execution activities. Prior to Practical Computer Applications, from 2001 to 2005, Mr. Summers provided independent merger & acquisition advisory services to support the sale of privately-owned companies. Prior to M&A advisory, and over a period of 14 years, Mr. Summers served in leadership roles at several software and internet start-ups, including: Chairman and CEO of Collego Corporation (acquired by MRO Software), founder and CEO of MyHelpDesk, Inc. (acquired by Support.com), founder of PCMovingVan.com (acquired by PE firm), and Vice President of Marketing at Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (acquired by INSO Corporation, NASDQ: INSO).

Prior to the software industry, Mr. Summers served as Technology Analyst at Electronic Joint Venture Partners LLC and Associate Program Trader on the Options Trading Desk at Bear Stearns & Co. In 1986 Mr. Summers received a BA in English from the University of Houston. Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Summers is qualified to serve as a member of our Board on the basis of his deep understanding of early-stage business growth strategies, enterprise sales, business acquisitions, as well as his background and extensive company management and leadership experience.