# Lisa Graham

> Lisa Graham is a chemical engineer turned software executive who leads Seattle-based Seeq. Her career has moved through Union Carbide, Bend Research, the startup Alkemy Innovation, and Seeq, where she became CEO in November 2021. Across those roles, her consistent concern has been how specialists turn dense operational data into useful decisions, and how technology can preserve rather than displace the judgment of the people closest to industrial work.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Seeq Corporation
- **Organizations:** Seeq Corporation, Alkemy Innovation Inc., PARADIGMisr, Bend Research, Union Carbide, Oregon Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, Oregon Governor's STEM Investment Council, Oregon State University
- **Education:** B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University
- **Known for:** Appointed CEO of Seeq in November 2021 after serving as COO and vice president of analytics engineering., Led Seeq through a $50 million Series D financing announced in August 2024, bringing company-reported total funding at the time to approximately $165 million., Inducted into Oregon State University's Academy of Distinguished Engineers in 2016.

## Career timeline

- **1999-2002** — Worked as a senior chemical engineer at Union Carbide, a subsidiary of Dow, including responsibility for high-pressure, high-temperature industrial experiments.
- **2002-2014** — Joined Bend Research as a research chemical engineer and advanced through engineering and operations leadership, including vice president of engineering, COO, and senior vice president.
- **2014-2015** — Served as chief scientist at PARADIGMisr, working across data and systems analysis, sensing, software, and agricultural technology.
- **2014-2022** — Served two terms on the Oregon Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, including a period as chair.
- **2016-2020** — Founded and led Alkemy Innovation, an engineering services company focused on rapid data analytics and model development.
- **2018** — Joined Seeq as vice president of analytics engineering after previously encountering the platform as a customer.
- **2020-2021** — Served as Seeq's chief operating officer while continuing to help scale its analytics organization.
- **2021-present** — Appointed chief executive officer of Seeq on November 17, 2021.

## Achievements

- Appointed CEO of Seeq in November 2021 after serving as COO and vice president of analytics engineering.
- Led Seeq through a $50 million Series D financing announced in August 2024, bringing company-reported total funding at the time to approximately $165 million.
- Inducted into Oregon State University's Academy of Distinguished Engineers in 2016.
- Named to Oregon State University's Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers in 2010.
- Served as chair of the Oregon Institute of Technology Board of Trustees and as a director on the Oregon Governor's STEM Investment Council.
- Earned and maintains the professional engineer designation in chemical engineering.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Graham publicly marked Seeq's new brand chapter, centered on combining human expertise, operational data, and AI under the line 'Human Intelligence. Amplified.'
- **2026-08** — Seeq published a recap of Graham's Conneqt 2026 keynote, where she framed accumulated operational knowledge and past decisions as 'decision capital.'
- **2026-06** — Graham opened Seeq's Conneqt North America conference in Orlando with a keynote focused on moving from analytics to intelligence while keeping expert human judgment in the loop.
- **2025-05** — At Conneqt 2025, Graham highlighted more than 188,000 user AI prompts and over $1 billion in value reported by Seeq users, while emphasizing human-centered AI.
- **2024-08** — Seeq announced a $50 million Series D led by Sixth Street Growth, with Graham saying the investment would support customers' critical industrial needs.

## Links

- Website: https://www.seeq.com/company/team/lisa-graham-ph-d-p-e/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisagraham2

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Last updated: 2026-09-26