SIMBA Chain Leadership Team & Executives

Joel Neidig

CEO

Joel Neidig is a serial entrepreneur has a bachelor s degree in operations management and has had 15 years of experience integrating manufacturing technology and software development. Neidig sits on the Technical Advisory Group for MTConnect an open-source royalty-free standard that is intended to foster greater interoperability between devices and software applications. He has been an active member of MTConnect since 2009. Neidig developed the first iOS and Android-compatible MTConnect apps and has developed over 65 manufacturing apps for the App Store and Google Play which have been downloaded over half a million times. Neidig also sits on the Technical Advisory Committee for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institutenow called MxD a federally-funded research and development organization encourages factories across America to deploy digital manufacturing and design technologies. His company was voted the 2014 Autodesk Inventor of the Year by the Autodesk Community. He has been named as a manufacturing Thought Leader by IMTS Insider. Neidig won second place in the MTConnect Challenge at the 2014 MC2 Conference for his application Expanding Manufacturing s Vision MTConnect Google Glass sponsored by the NCDMM and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Neidig and his company were awarded a project from America Makes Led by the University of Pittsburgh in conjunction with Johnson Johnson ITAMCO and the University of Notre Dame the project developed parametric designs of functional support structures for metal alloy feedstocks for 3D Printing it was then licensed to a startup Atlas 3D that Joel Co-founded and was CTO later acquired by Siemens. He has previously been the manufacturing keynote speaker at Autodesk University. Neidig was the recipient of SME s 2015 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer of the Year Award the award is named in honor of a specific individual who has made lifelong contributions to manufacturing and recognizes exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. Joel is also a guest technology speaker at the White House.