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Kelly Tomblin and the other meaning of power
From a West Virginia coal town to Jamaica and El Paso, Kelly Tomblin has spent her career working on the grid and the relationships around it. As her CEO tenure nears its end, the two kinds of power meet again.
Vicki Knott
Vicki Knott is the CEO and co-founder of CruxOCM, a Calgary-based industrial autonomy software company building AI-powered automation for oil and gas control rooms. A chemical engineer (P.Eng.) who started on the plant floor and trained as a pipeline control room operator at TransCanada, she left in 2017 to co-found CruxOCM with Roger Shirt. Her company's RIPA (Robotic Industrial Process Automation) technology automates the manual, high-stakes work of pipeline operators, and raised a $17M Series A led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund in 2024.