Ted Hull left his position the end of the day on May 15 to "meet company needs and to pursue his personal interests," according to a news release. He was replaced by David Styka, chief accounting officer, who also was named executive vice president.
Styka, 53, has worked for 3D Systems only since January 2015, after serving as vice president – Finance and Treasurer at Family Dollar since April 2014. Previously, he served as vice president – Finance at Family Dollar from March 2011 to April 2014, and divisional vice president – Tax and Inventory from July 2008 to March 2011.
"We are deeply grateful to Ted for his stewardship of our finance organization and wish him much success in his pursuit of other personal interests," said Avi Reichental, president/CEO. "We are very fortunate to have a strong and capable financial executive of the caliber of Dave Styka ready to assume the role of chief financial officer. Since his arrival at 3D Systems, Dave has gained a deep understanding of our business and quickly has become a key advisor to me and the rest of our senior leadership team. Dave brings substantial finance and accounting leadership experience to the role and we are confident taking the next leg of our growth journey with him as our CFO."
Styka earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration and accounting from John Carroll University and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University. He has a CPA certification from the state of North Carolina. Additionally, he has worked in public accounting at Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche and served in finance leadership roles at Wellman Inc. and Family Dollar Stores Inc.
Hull joined 3D Systems in November 2014. He had more than three decades of financial leadership roles in prime technology companies that included Cisco and IBM. He spent six years at Cisco as vice president of Finance, and he also served as vice president of Finance and CFO at Maxtor. Before he was hired at 3D Systems, Hull was executive vice president and CFO at Fusion-io.
Based in Rocky Hill, S.C., 3D Systems provides 3-D digital design and fabrication solutions, including 3-D printers, print materials and cloud-sourced custom parts.