# Ronen Lebi

> Ronen Lebi is Chief Business Officer at Los Angeles-based Machina Labs, where he leads strategy, sales, marketing, operations, and partnerships for an AI-guided robotic manufacturing platform. His career has moved from helping build Waze's early global mapping infrastructure to scaling additive-manufacturing businesses at Stratasys and, since August 2024, helping Machina move from promising process technology toward production infrastructure for defense, aerospace, and mobility.

- **Role:** Chief Business Officer at Machina Labs
- **Organizations:** Machina Labs, Stratasys, Waze
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dual MBA / joint GMBA program, Interdisciplinary Center in Israel and The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Built Stratasys Dental's global business unit and go-to-market approach, producing 35% year-over-year growth and tripling revenue from new accounts., Led the Stratasys P3 business unit as it generated more than $20 million in first-year revenue from next-generation systems deployed to major aerospace and automotive customers., Led more than $300 million in Stratasys corporate-development initiatives across acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked in management consulting and investment banking, and became an early Waze employee leading the QA team responsible for global mapping infrastructure.
- **2015** — Joined Stratasys as Vice President of Corporate Development.
- **2015-2024** — Led more than $300 million in inorganic growth initiatives, later ran the P3 production business and then Stratasys Dental.
- **2024-08** — Joined Machina Labs as Chief Business Officer, responsible for strategy, sales, marketing, operations, and partnerships.
- **2025-02** — Appeared on the 3DPOD podcast to discuss additive-manufacturing applications, startup boards, growth, and Machina Labs.
- **2026** — Helped lead Machina's commercial scale-up as the company raised $124 million, launched a dedicated defense subsidiary, entered JASSM qualification work, and supported the first flight of a RoboFormed C-17 repair.

## Achievements

- Built Stratasys Dental's global business unit and go-to-market approach, producing 35% year-over-year growth and tripling revenue from new accounts.
- Led the Stratasys P3 business unit as it generated more than $20 million in first-year revenue from next-generation systems deployed to major aerospace and automotive customers.
- Led more than $300 million in Stratasys corporate-development initiatives across acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures.
- Helped build Waze's early global mapping infrastructure as leader of its QA team.
- At Machina Labs, leads the business functions supporting adoption of AI-enabled robotic manufacturing across defense, aerospace, automotive, and industrial markets.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Machina announced that a RoboFormed structural repair had flown on a repaired C-17, reducing a process associated with multiyear lead times to months. Lebi publicly praised the team and U.S. Air Force partners.
- **2026-07** — Machina received a Lockheed Martin qualification contract supporting the JASSM program, its first RoboFormed assembly to enter qualification for a defense missile system.
- **2026-07** — Machina created Machina Bellator, a dedicated defense manufacturing subsidiary, as defense work expanded.
- **2026-02** — Machina closed a $124 million Series C and announced a planned 200,000-square-foot factory with capacity for up to 50 RoboCraftsman cells.
- **2026-02** — Lebi appeared as a speaker at Defense Tech Expo 2026 on a session about AI in defense and homeland security.

## Links

- Website: https://machinalabs.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronen-lebi
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/MachinaLabs_
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@machinalabsinc

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Last updated: 2026-09-26