Company: VLDXW
Filing Date: 2025-08-20
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001641172-25-024892
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Company: Velo3D, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-08-20
Form: 424B4
Chunk 135
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 the aerospace, automotive and other industries. Since June 2023, he has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Crown Magnesium Inc., which extracts pure magnesium from ore materials. In addition, since June 2023, Mr. Jeldi has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Arrayed, which is engaged in magnesium and aluminum lightweight alloy additive manufacturing (3D printing) for the aerospace and defense industries. Arrayed owns 100% of the outstanding capital stock of the Arrayed Acquisition. We believe Mr. Jeldi’s significant executive experience in additive manufacturing and in providing design and manufacturing services to the aerospace and defense industries makes him well-qualified to serve as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board.

Hull Xu - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Xu was appointed as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer and principal financial officer on April 24, 2024. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Xu served as Chief Financial Officer at Cepton, Inc., a provider of lidar-based solutions for automotive and other applications from April 2022 to January 2024, and VP of Finance and Strategy at Cepton Technologies, Inc., Cepton’s predecessor, from January 2021 to April 2022. Prior to Cepton, Mr. Xu served as a director at RBC Capital Markets, LLC from November 2015 to January 2021. Mr. Xu holds an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.

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Non-Employee Directors

Adrian Kepplerhas served as a member of our Board since July 2023. Dr. Keppler is the Chief Executive Officer of AM Scalation, an additive manufacturing consulting company, which he founded in April 2021. He previously held multiple positions at EOS GmbH a global provider of 3D printing solutions, including serving as managing director from October 2019 to March 2021, Chief Executive Officer from May 2017 to September 2019 and Chief Marketing Officer from October 2012 to April 2017. Prior to EOS, he held different management positions within Siemens AG, a global manufacturing and technology company headquartered in Munich. Dr. Keppler currently serves on the advisory boards of Incus GmBH, a 3D printer manufacturer, AM-Flow, a provider of end-to-end