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WomEng: A pink hard hat is only the beginning
WomEng starts with a girl imagining herself as an engineer. Its more interesting work is building the support that helps her become one, stay one, and perhaps own the business.
Lisa Graham Learned to Read a Factory. Now She Is Teaching AI to Listen.
The chemical engineer who once ran high-pressure experiments now leads Seeq with a stubbornly human idea: industrial AI matters only when it helps the people who understand the plant make a better decision.
Maria Bennett Kept One Graduate-School Idea Alive for 28 Years. Then Came a $650 Million Exit.
A wheelchair project, a thesis, two acquired companies and one stubbornly durable question shaped Maria Bennett's route from an Indiana marching band to a Cleveland medtech exit.
Jennifer Aspell
Jennifer Aspell is the CEO of BrightView Technologies, a Durham, North Carolina optics company that engineers micro lens array films to shape and manage light for displays, AR/VR, automotive, LiDAR, sensing and LED lighting. An electrical engineer trained at Rensselaer, UC Berkeley and Purdue, she started out at Bell Laboratories building technology for long-haul optical networks before moving through Lucent, JDS Uniphase and Tyco Electronics. She took the helm of BrightView in 2010 after the recession gutted its original rear-projection-TV market, and rebuilt it into a global supplier serving more than 200 customers, capped by a $7M Series B in 2025 led by Forvia Hella and Technology Venture Partners.