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Technology trailblazer Torey Penrod-Cambra is a co-founder and chief communications officer of HighByte, a fast- growing Portland-based industrial software startup that was ranked No. 6 on Inc. magazine's latest regional barometer of fastest-growing com- panies in the Northeast. The company, jointly run by Cambra and her two fellow co-founders, employs about 40 people and recently moved to a larger office in Portland with plans to keep growing. Torey Penrod-Cambra Co-founder / Chief communications officer HighByte V O L . X X X I N O. X V I I A U G U S T 1 1 , 2 0 2 5 20 P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY M ainebiz: Who and where are HighByte's customers? Torey Penrod-Cambra: HighByte software is running in 24 countries, serving large, multinational indus- trial customers. ese customers currently span 20 vertical markets, including automotive, food and bev- erage, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas and utilities. Some of our customer accounts include Alcon, Cartier, Georgia-Pacific, Lindt, Regeneron and U.S. Steel. MB: What data do you provide to customers and how are they using it? TPC: HighByte Intelligence Hub collects and models data from a wide variety of data sources found on the factory floor — including databases, sensors, manufacturing execution systems and controllers. e "secret sauce" is our modeling engine that helps merge and prepare all this raw data so it can be analyzed. Customers use this data for predictive asset maintenance, qual- ity improvements and power con- sumption monitoring. Increasingly, we are preparing industrial data for AI agents. Agents are the next wave of automation for industry. MB: How do you introduce new technology in a traditional industry like manufacturing? B y R e n e e C o r d e s A technology trailblazer with an eye on expansion

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