Julie Bliss MullenFounder

United States - Upton, Massachusetts

Julie Bliss Mullen, CEO, founded Aclarity in 2017 to solve the world’s greatest water quality problems. She has built the strongest and most passionate team to solve the PFAS problem by destroying these forever chemicals "forever". Julie spent her early professional career investigating and developing conventional and innovative water treatment technologies while understanding and finding solutions to technology commercialization and regulatory barriers. Julie developed Aclarity’s patent-pending technology as a Ph.D. Candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (NSF-GRF) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Prior to her studies at UMass, Julie worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as an environmental engineer and regulator in the Drinking Water Unit for Region 1 (Boston, MA). She is a proud alumna of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) where she studied Environmental Engineering and Environmental & Sustainability Studies. Julie has been recognized as part of the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 cohort in Science, won the Lemelson-MIT award for inventorship in 2019, and was awarded the 2018 Innovator of the Year prize by the North East Water Innovation Network (NEWIN). Julie's best role yet is being a mom.