A mechanical engineer crossed medical devices, building systems and energy technology before taking charge of a family-owned wire maker. His first move was not a grand manifesto. It was to walk the plants and listen.

After 19 years marketing industrial technology across four regions, Ani Adzhemyan has arrived at a wonderfully difficult brief: make utility-pole data matter before anybody notices the pole.

His career began in banking and retail. It found its long game in the quiet, consequential business of helping electric utilities understand their networks, answer outages, and talk to customers.

The Maingen cofounder has turned solar operations into a week-long test for AI agents, where every alarm costs attention, every truck roll costs money, and one missed detail can spoil the week.

Generac's CMO has spent a career making considered purchases easier to understand. Now she is turning outages, data and customer questions into a playbook for selling resilience.