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Ashleigh
Wilson
elevates
people over
profits
By JULIE A. PALM
nce on the management fast track at
one of the oldest companies in the ver-
O tical transportation industry, Ashleigh
Wilson is now disrupting the sector with her San
Francisco-based startup, AuditMate.
Vertical transportation is better
known to most people as elevators and
escalators. Wilson’s goal: to create a
human-centered company that succeeds
by “doing right by others.”
Wilson notes that virtually every-
thing about her is “disruptive” in a
sector controlled by a few long-estab-
lished companies, run mostly by men
— and mostly by white men. Wilson is
young. She is a woman. She wears big,
funky glasses and has hair that might be
pink one day and orange the next. In her
LinkedIn bio, Wilson describes herself as
“Elevator Nerd. Founder. CEO. Human.
Queer.”
But what is most disruptive about
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