Passion for tomorrow

Winner, Technology

In the 10 years since she founded Enseo Inc., Vanessa Ogle has relied on her vision and drive to build her company into a leading provider of hardware and software solutions for the digital media engines used in hotels, stadiums and digital signage systems.

While Enseo’s products are cutting-edge innovation, Ogle says Enseo is really an engineering-focused firm, with more than 70 percent of its staffing allocated to engineering design and development activities.

When she founded the company in 2000, her goal was straightforward: assemble a team of experts who could imagine, create and market high-tech products for specific vertical markets. And, because of this focus, Ogle’s company has since been able to roll out such products as retail digital signage, cinema digital signage systems (ads, menus and preshow displays), interactive kiosks, stadium and arena displays, airport flight departure and arrival displays, hotel systems’ video-on-demand and pay-per-view systems, as well as HDTV tuners for hospitality organizations.

Enseo’s success is in the results: The company has more than 250,000 product installations of HD media controllers in the U.S. and 20 other countries worldwide. It has become the largest provider of commercial HDTV tuners with numerous display manufacturers, including Panasonic, LG, Samsung and Sharp. More than 6,000 screens in digital cinema use Enseo’s products. Hotel rooms worldwide are served by the company’s video-on-demand hardware and software. Thousands of retail outlets use Enseo-based signage systems. And dozens of stadiums and teams are clients, including American Airlines Center and the San Jose Sharks.

For Ogle, this is merely the beginning. She says the company’s capabilities and innovative culture position it well for market growth in nearly every sector it serves. Because technology is ever-changing, Enseo’s evolution will mirror consumers’ demand for new products and services.

Among Ogle’s long-range vision is her goal for Enseo’s set-top box to be the TV infrastructure for all major TV display companies in every major sports arena, hotel, transportation station, cruise line and school around the world.

How to reach: Enseo Inc., www.enseo.com