Ping Fu (@pfugeomagic) is vice president and chief strategy officer of manufacturing firm 3D Systems. Fu earned her current title when 3D Systems bought Geomagic, the pioneering 3D software development firm she co-founded and headed. She grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, and was deported to the U.S. at age 23. She recounted her experiences across China and the United States in her 2012 memoir, Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds.