# Steve Hoover

> Steve Hoover is the CEO of Impossible Objects, the Northbrook, Illinois company commercializing CBAM (composite-based additive manufacturing), a from-the-ground-up 3D printing process that bonds carbon fiber and other composites into parts that are stronger, lighter and more heat-tolerant than conventional prints. A mechanical engineer with a Carnegie Mellon doctorate, he spent roughly two decades at Xerox, rising to corporate CTO and running PARC as CEO, before a stint leading RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute and co-founding the art-recognition startup Artify.ai. He took the Impossible Objects helm in March 2023 to push composite 3D printing from prototypes into high-volume manufacturing.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Impossible Objects
- **Organizations:** Impossible Objects, Inc., Xerox, PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), Rochester Institute of Technology - Global Cybersecurity Institute, Artify.ai, Consumer Reports
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, Master's in Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Doctorate in Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Known for:** Rose to Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Xerox, Served as CEO of PARC for roughly six years, steering its shift toward open innovation, strategic partnerships and spinouts, Helped Xerox break into the high-speed digital printing market with 300-pages-per-minute presses

## Career timeline

- **1990s-2000s** — Joined Xerox in research and advanced technology development; worked on high-speed digital printing presses (300 pages per minute)
- **2000s** — Ran the Xerox research group in Rochester and the software/electronics group
- **2013** — Became CEO of PARC, a Xerox company, overseeing autonomous-driving sensing, 5G RF, AI and computer vision research
- **2017** — Appointed Senior Vice President of Xerox (effective January 1, 2017)
- **2019** — Left Xerox as Chief Technology Officer (April 2019)
- **2019-2022** — Served as Katherine Johnson Endowed Executive Director of the Global Cybersecurity Institute at RIT (until March 2022)
- **2020s** — Co-founded Artify.ai, a startup using computer vision for fine-art sales and identification
- **2023** — Named CEO of Impossible Objects (March 7, 2023)

## Achievements

- Rose to Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Xerox
- Served as CEO of PARC for roughly six years, steering its shift toward open innovation, strategic partnerships and spinouts
- Helped Xerox break into the high-speed digital printing market with 300-pages-per-minute presses
- Holds seven patents
- Led RIT's Global Cybersecurity Institute as its endowed executive director
- Co-founded Artify.ai
- Vice-Chair of the Consumer Reports Board of Directors
- Serves on advisory councils at Carnegie Mellon (Dean's Advisory Council, College of Engineering) and RIT

## Latest updates

- **2023-03** — Named Chief Executive Officer of Impossible Objects
- **2023-04** — Impossible Objects announced it had broken the 3D printing speed barrier with a new system launch

## Links

- Website: https://impossible-objects.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-hoover-04376b3/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKzikfssTM

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Last updated: 2026-06-04