Michelle Sidwell rejoins Velo3D as Chief Revenue Officer
January 14, 2025
Velo3D, headquartered in Fremont, California, USA, has announced that Michelle Sidwell has rejoined the company as its Chief Revenue Officer. In the roll, Sidwell will be responsible for leading the Velo3D sales, marketing and customer service teams across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Sidwell will also oversee the company’s business development team, which works with engineers in various industries to identify opportunities where metal Additive Manufacturing can transform manufacturing processes.
“We’re thrilled to have Michelle rejoin the company and are confident that her wealth of knowledge and previous Velo3D experience will be critical to the successful execution of our new go-to-market strategy as we look to expand our leadership position in Additive Manufacturing,” stated Arun Jeldi, CEO. “She brings extensive experience launching new products into market, streamlining sales processes, growing revenue, and working with customers to find solutions by leveraging Velo3D’s industry leading technology to address their most critical, high value metal part manufacturing needs.”
Prior to rejoining Velo3D, Sidwell was the SVP of Global Enterprise Business at Salesloft, focusing on revenue growth and sales. Salesloft provides sales teams with an AI-powered revenue workflow platform that can improve the sales process for users. She also spent nearly five years at Yext, reportedly helping the company grow revenue from $60 million to $300 million over a period when it also became a publicly traded company. Sidwell also held sales and leadership roles at Adobe, Persado, and Walsworth.
“I am excited to rejoin Velo3D to lead their global sales, service and business development organisation,” said Sidwell. “It’s impressive to see what Velo3D has accomplished over its lifetime and I’m looking forward to working with the brilliant team to continue to scale the business and help our customers with their biggest engineering challenges.”
