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Finding purpose focuses the work and the business

After nearly a decade working at different companies, Kelly Mendell decided in 2003 to join MIKEL, a company her father founded that did work with the U.S. Navy, taking it over in 2008. Since then she has more than tripled its workforce. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY
After nearly a decade working at different companies, Kelly Mendell decided in 2003 to join MIKEL, a company her father founded that did work with the U.S. Navy, taking it over in 2008. Since then she has more than tripled its workforce. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Kelly Mendell | MIKEL Inc. president Why are you in business? What do you believe in? The United States has the most technologically capable submarines in the world. Operating submerged in an underwater environment can be very challenging. In 2001, the USS Greenville collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing trawler on a high

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