Jill Thomassian, Chief Operating Officer, Boulder

Jill Thomassian, Chief Operating Officer-Boulder, was recruited in 2006 as Vice President of Operations of ColorLink. Jill's experience includes 15 years in high-volume manufacturing systems design and development. Jill came to ColorLink from Microfabrica, a high-tech MEMS start-up company. Previously, Jill was a Program Manager at Accu-Fab Systems a custom automation company specializing in high-speed, high precision equipment where she managed multi-disciplinary engineering teams in developing products for companies in the optical, semi-conductor and consumer products industry. Jill began her career at Hewlett-Packard as a Manufacturing Development Engineer in charge of the technology transfer of manufacturing lines to Asia and the implementation of ISO 9001 manufacturing quality controls.

Jill holds an MBA from the University of Southern California and an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. She was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for her graduate studies. Her thesis work was on developing control algorithms for the 3D-Printing Process.