Ryan Beech

Ryan Beech is a seasoned robotics engineering and business leader with over 25 years of experience spanning construction, robotics, and 3D printing industries. He founded Ryonic Robotics in 2014, Africa's first industrial robotics company, which was later acquired by Reunert Limited in 2017. He also established Africa's first IIoT-integrated 3D print farm. Ryan served as SVP EMEA at OffWorld Robotics, managing terrestrial robotics business across the region. He has extensive experience in productisation, commercialization, and scaling robotics businesses globally. Ryan specializes in leading multidisciplinary hardware and software teams to deliver industrial robotic products for extreme environments and manufacturing-as-a-service platforms. He holds educational qualifications in civil engineering, mechatronic engineering, and software engineering.