Ankush Venkatesh is the Intrapreneur, Additive Manufacturing at Glidewell Dental Laboratories. In addition to writing for publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Ankush has also been speaker at the largest 3D printing events in the world including Formnext, Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS), Rapid+ TCT.
At Glidewell, Ankush is heavily involved in new product development, streamline additive manufacturing workflows, business strategy, and commercialization of digital manufacturing technologies.
Prior to his role at Glidewell, he was a Strategy Fellow at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. In that time, he specialized in digital strategy and Industry 4.0 technologies like additive manufacturing (3D printing), IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), artificial intelligence/machine learning and digital twins.
He has a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Master's Degree in Engineering Management with a focus on product development and 3D printing. He is a former technology consultant and has also spent time in the medical device/healthcare industry in the function of product development.