Leadership Team

Decades of experience across global footwear giants and deep-tech additive manufacturing, uniting to build the first scalable U.S. Footwear Gigafactory.

Kuba Graczyk

Kuba Graczyk

Chief Executive Officer
  • Founder & CEO of Koobz, building the first scalable U.S. "Footwear Gigafactory".
  • Founder & CEO of NXT Factory, a high-speed polymer 3D-printing company.
  • Led NXT Factory to acquisition by Nexa3D, where its tech forms their industrial AM platform.
Tomasz Cieszynski

Tomasz Cieszynski

Chief Technology Officer
  • Co-founder & CTO of NXT Factory alongside Kuba Graczyk.
  • After NXT's acquisition, served 4 years as Head of Technology at SLS Solutions.
  • Developed Quantum Laser Sintering, a new 3D printing technology with multiple patents.
John Dulchinos

John Dulchinos

Chief Operating Officer
  • Former President of GKN Additive, a $50M 3D printing business.
  • Spent 9 years as VP of 3D Printing, Robotics, & Global Automation at Jabil.
  • Spent 26 years at early robotics leader Adept Technology; led Adept through OMROM acquisition as CEO.
Mike Hofmann

Mike Hofmann

Chief Commercial Officer
  • Spent 8 years at NIKE ($82B) as Program Dir. of Footwear Innovation & Dir. of Asia Innovation Chemical Engineering.
  • Previously spent 15 years at DuPont ($28B) in various commercial and innovation roles.
  • Holds a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt.
Cecily Schmidt

Cecily Schmidt

VP Product & Commercialization
  • Spent 6 years at ADIDAS ($31B) as Head of Footwear Basketball & Lifestyle Innovation and NA Merchandising.
  • Previously spent 7 years at NIKE ($82B) leading the signature Basketball performance line for NBA and WNBA.
  • Holds an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from University of Portland.