Jennifer Mallett has one of those names that just keeps popping up around professional residential tech circles. Whether serving on an expert panel, speaking on a podcast, or posting on social media, the CEO of Northborough, Massachusetts-based custom integration firm Level Up Automation has already had a busy 2022.
Mallett acknowledges that while running a business alone can be enough of a daily challenge, her “extracurricular” activities help drive her company's mission to serve as a trusted advisor on smart home tech wherever they go, “framing the conversation,” and elevating what's possible for the still relatively unknown custom integration industry.
Growing up, Mallett was always fascinated with computers (her father was employed by one of the first computer manufacturers in the 80s). Then, at the age of 14, she began working for her family's IT consulting firm. Although she chose
