About Wayland Additive

Wayland Additive brings over 150 years of combined electron beam manufacturing expertise, originating from a team with a semiconductor engineering background, where eBeam precision and stability are crucial. Their experience showed how eBeam technology could be improved for additive manufacturing. Since 2015, a team of eBeam experts has focused on solving powder charging in eBeam AM.

Wayland successfully transferred mature technology from the semiconductor industry to AM, securing funding from Longwall Ventures and Innovate UK. The company leads in efficient, accurate metal AM and works closely with customers on material and application development.

The Wayland team is built on a foundation of scientific expertise, but also brings together solid financial management with exceptional commercial experience within the Additive Manufacturing experience.

Key Staff

Will Richardson

CEO

With a background in scientific instrumentation and medical devices, Will has a demonstrable track record in taking new technologies from concept to market. His experience spans the broad range of disciplines required to achieve this: establishing market needs, conceptual development, IP management, building collaborative teams, supply chain development and route to market; while working with a range of clients from small start-ups to global OEMs.

Chris Smith

CTO

Chris has more than a decade of experience advancing powder bed fusion (PBF) technology from fundamental research to commercial deployment for real world production applications. After completing his PhD on lightweighting structures using topology optimisation and additive manufacturing (AM), Chris then continued as a Research Associate, in close collaboration with GKN Aerospace, Renishaw and Autodesk. His research was focused on developing new materials, increasing the TRL level for AM of production parts, and in-process monitoring for both electron beam and laser AM. In 2017, Chris joined Reliance Precision Engineering to help develop a prototype electron beam PBF system incorporating a novel charge neutralisation technology, a breakthrough that became the foundation of Wayland Additive. As a founding member, Chris played a central role in maturing the technology into a robust commercial platform, leading the applications and engineering teams through to the launch of Calibur3®.

Peter Hansford

CRO

Peter has more than 23 years of experience working in the global Additive Manufacturing technology sector. Peter’s expertise is in machine sales, marketing and channel development. He has worked with some of the pioneers of the additive manufacturing industry, including 3D Systems, Z-Corporation, Blueprinter and UnionTech. Peter has a proven ability within start-up companies working through 3 acquisitions and launching numerous new products with direct sales, management and recruitment for high tech hardware.

Adam Uttley

CFO

Adam is a Chartered Management Accountant, holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, and has spent most of his career operating in venture capital and private equity backed companies. Prior to joining Wayland, Adam was CFO of When in Rome Wine, a sustainability-focussed Italian wine brand where he spent time raising finance and building a commercial platform to facilitate growth. Adam has also run two of his own companies, including a commercial property business in Halifax, where he grew up, and an online non-alcoholic beer business.

Nick Weeks

COO

Nick brings over 20 years of experience in aerospace manufacturing and advanced materials technology to his role at Wayland Additive. His expertise spans powder atomisation, additive manufacturing, and materials engineering, with a particular focus on titanium and nickel alloy production systems. Nick's career includes significant leadership roles at Carpenter Additive as Site Director and as Technical Director at LPW Technology Limited, where he led the development of powder management technologies for the AM industry. Prior to this, Nick spent over 11 years with Rolls-Royce, including a five-year tenure in Singapore where he established and led multiple materials engineering teams while developing innovative repair technologies for aerospace applications. As Director of NCHG Limited, a UK-based sustainable titanium solutions company, Nick combines his technical knowledge with commercial acumen to deliver smart feedstock solutions and digital manufacturing intelligence to the industry.