As president of Bright Research, Marit Slawson has played a key role in scaling the Minneapolis-based medical device clinical research organization. Over the past seven years, her leadership has contributed to 20–30% year-over-year revenue growth, a sixfold increase in employee head count, and expanded service offerings. Slawson has led the development of enterprise-wide systems, including scalable corporate strategy deployment, advanced budgeting and proposal models, a custom internal resource planning and tracking system, and a centralized project management framework supporting clinical study teams. “She pairs genuine kindness with extraordinary intelligence and capability,” CEO Andrea Fenton Abbs says. “Her biomedical engineering mindset elevates our team and our clients’ work.”