Amy K. Stabell

Amy K. Stabell has always enjoyed making and building things. After graduating in 2007 from Illinois, she has held different engineering roles, always focused on manufacturing. She has made car paint, polymer resins, amorphous silica, nanomaterial dispersions, and now aerospace adhesives. She has served in many roles in manufacturing, proving more of a ‘generalist’ than a ‘specialist,’ but in all of them, she has used statistics, logic and structured problem-solving to improve processes. Stabell has designed nano dispersion processes, built, procured and constructed production plants, hired large teams, served as a safety officer and implemented global processes such as packing boxes, rebuilding pumps, filling bottles and doing inventory.

Currently, Stabell works in quality in aerospace composites at Henkel as Global Quality Network Head of Experts. Some notable accolades during her career include receiving the STEP award from the manufacturing institute in 2014, being named FORBES 30 under 30 in 2015, and being a co-inventor on a patent in the EU and US. She lives with her partner and son in Newcastle upon Tyne in the U.K.