Management

Management Team

Christopher Yewdall, executive director and Chief Executive Officer
Chris was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DDD in November 2001. He joined DDD as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in September 1998, was appointed President of DDD USA in July 1999, became its Chief Executive Officer in July 2000 and was appointed to its Board of Directors of DDD Inc. in April 2001. Prior to joining DDD, Chris was Vice President, Business Development of C-Dilla Limited, an anti-piracy software provider servicing entertainment and business software developers. Between February 1991 and March 1997, he was General Manager and Vice President of Sales of Virtuality Inc., a virtual reality 3D technologies company with offices in Europe and North America.

Dr. Julien Flack, Chief Technology Officer
Julien joined DDD in September 2000 as Director of Research and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in October 2004. Julien has been responsible for much of the innovative image analysis and research work that forms the basis for the Group’s off-line and real-time 2D-to-3D image conversion technologies.

Prior to joining DDD, Julien was employed as a Research Scientist at the Australian Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and was seconded for three years to the World Geoscience Corporation where he focused on the commercialization of cutting-edge data analysis algorithms for the mineral exploration industry. Julien has a degree in Computer Science from Leeds University, England and earned his Ph.D. from Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia in 1995, the focus of which was the application of image processing and computer vision techniques to the analysis of remotely sensed images.

Victoria Stull, executive director and Chief Financial Officer
Victoria was appointed to the Board of Directors of DDD on 18 July 2012. Victoria joined the Company’s finance team in October 2009 and was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in June 2010. Prior to joining DDD, Victoria was a founding member and Vice President of Sales & Business Development of GOQO, an online entertainment portal available in over 20,000 internet cafes throughout China. Victoria has also held positions of Vice President Business Development and Vice President Financial Operations, at Gemstar-TV Guide International, a leading provider of interactive programming technologies in the digital television market. Prior to joining Gemstar-TV Guide, Victoria held Sales Planning and Internal Financial Audit roles at Sony Pictures International Television and Sony Pictures of America, respectively.

Directors

Paul Kristensen, non-executive Chairman
Paul was appointed to the DDD Board in November 2001 and is the President of Capital Technologies Pty Ltd, a venture capital firm in Australia. He has been a founding director and shareholder of a number of technology or investment companies originating in Western Australia, including ERG Limited, Arbortech Pty Ltd, Kinetic Limited, TrueVision 3D Pty Ltd (the precursor to DDD), and Structural Monitoring Systems Ltd. He is currently an associate of AADI Defence Pty Ltd. and a director of Stochastic Simulation, Ltd., Lumitex Ltd, Optimiser IP Pty Ltd and Accumulus Pte Ltd (Singapore). Paul is a co-founder of Western Australian Angel Investors, Inc, and a member of the Australian IT Industry Innovation Council. He was appointed a non-executive director of DDD Inc. (the predecessor parent company) in May 1996 and became Chairman of DDD Group plc in May 2002.

Christopher Yewdall, executive director and Chief Executive Officer
Chris was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DDD in November 2001. He joined DDD as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in September 1998, was appointed President of DDD USA in July 1999, became its Chief Executive Officer in July 2000 and was appointed to its Board of Directors of DDD Inc. in April 2001. Prior to joining DDD, Chris was Vice President, Business Development of C-Dilla Limited, an anti-piracy software provider servicing entertainment and business software developers. Between February 1991 and March 1997, he was General Manager and Vice President of Sales of Virtuality Inc., a virtual reality 3D technologies company with offices in Europe and North America.

Nicholas Brigstocke, non-executive Director
Nick was appointed a non-executive director of DDD in November 2001. He retired in 2001 as Chairman of UK Equity Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston (“CSFB”). He joined CSFB when it purchased Barclays de Zoete Wedd in January 1998, at which time he was Chairman and Managing Director of BZW’s UK corporate broking business. Prior to that, he was head of equity sales and a member of the equity management committee at BZW. He is also a non-executive director of Inter Pipeline Fund.

Warren Littlefield, non-executive Director
Warren was appointed a non-executive director of DDD in November 2001. He was appointed to the board of DDD Inc. in August 2001 and is the founder of The Littlefield Company, which is currently developing and producing television programming. Doubleday recently published his New York Times bestselling book “TOP OF THE ROCK: Inside The Rise & Fall of Must See TV” which chronicles the 20 years he worked for NBC including nine years as President of NBC Entertainment.

Dr. Sanji Arisawa, non-executive Director
Sanji was appointed a non-executive director of DDD in March 2005. He has been the President & CEO of Tokyo Stock Exchange listed Arisawa Manufacturing Co., Ltd. since 1995. Dr. Arisawa obtained his Ph.D. in operations research from North Carolina State University in 1973.

Hans Roger Snook, non-executive Director
Hans was appointed a non-executive director of DDD in January 2006. Hans is the Chairman of Truemove, a mobile telephone operator based in Thailand. He also currently serves on the Board of Directors of Health Limited and The Integrated Health Consultancy Ltd. Hans was the founder and Chief Executive of Orange and served on the board of the main holding company and two of its subsidiaries. He articulated the vision of a ‘wire free future’ which has driven the branding, strategy and operation of Orange. Under Hans’ leadership, Orange launched on 28 April 1994 and had a profound impact on the mobile market in both the UK and globally. In March 1996, Orange listed on the London and NASDAQ exchanges and, in June of that year, became the youngest company to enter the FTSE 100. After a series of acquisitions, Hans continued as Chief Executive of the enlarged Orange group, leading it to a subsequent flotation in February 2001, at which point he became Special Adviser to the group, a role from which he stepped down at the end of 2001. From 2002 until July 2005, Hans was non-executive Chairman of Carphone Warehouse Group plc. From May 2005 to February 2007, Hans was non-executive Chairman of MonsterMob Group plc.