Carbon appoints Jason Rolland, Ph.D., as CTO, co-inventor of dual-cure resin platform

Carbon announced the promotion of Jason Rolland, Ph.D., to Chief Technology Officer on Feb. 16, 2026, elevating one of the company's earliest hires who has been with Carbon for over 12 years and who will lead the company’s broader product development and R&D organization. The company framed Rolland as a polymer scientist by training and credited him with creating many of Carbon’s largest revenue products through materials and product work.

The appointment was distributed from REDWOOD CITY, Calif., via PR Newswire with timing metadata showing Feb. 16, 2026, 06:00 ET. Phil DeSimone, Carbon co-founder and CEO, is quoted in the release saying, “I couldn’t be more excited about having Jason in this role. He has been a prolific innovator and leader since he joined Carbon in the early days and is responsible for many of the company's largest revenue products. I am excited to have him lead Carbon's broader product development and R&D organization as we continue to lead the way in additive manufacturing technology and solutions.”

Rolland’s technical background is laid out in the release: he earned his Ph.D. in 2005 under Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., served as a co-founder of Liquidia, Inc. prior to joining Carbon, and is described as a prolific inventor holding over 60 issued U.S. patents with an additional 45 pending. Rolland said in the company statement, “I’m humbled and excited to take on this challenge. Over the past 12 years, I’ve really grown to love this space and this technology. I think additive manufacturing is critically important to building the next generation of products that impact our society, and I think Carbon is well positioned to lead this effort.”

The press release credits Rolland with building Carbon’s materials team and with co-inventing the company’s patented dual-cure resin platform, language that the company used to link his work to a string of resin product launches. The release states those resin products, combined with Carbon’s hardware and software platforms, “revolutionized the additive manufacturing space by enabling applications once considered impossible with existing, traditional technologies.”

Industry pickup of the announcement included Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher and an Arizona Daily Star News+ feed, in addition to syndicated PR aggregators on Cision and CNW; an original brief noted the story was picked up by industry outlets “including 3D,” a fragment that appears incomplete in the supplied materials. The primary distribution retained PR housekeeping metadata and contact lines for the distributors.

As CTO, Rolland moves from the materials and product development work credited in the press release into a formal role overseeing Carbon’s product and R&D agenda, positioning a patent-heavy inventor who has been with the company for over 12 years to steer the next wave of materials-driven product initiatives at Carbon.