Mia M. Fujii received her degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Irvine, and her professional career began as a technical applications engineer supporting electrical CAD analysis and Product Data Management.  Electrical CAD design, simulation and manufacturing of chips was her background prior to joining Siemens.   Mia has been with Siemens for 29 years and has held positions in sales, sales management, business development management, services to train and on-board new hires management and was most recently the Director for License Compliance in the Americas which was a role that required Global collaboration with Meso America, US, Canada, South America, Netherlands, UK and AP regions before joining the Americas Academic team.

Her achievements include multiple sales Golden Eagle 100% Sales awards, and Inner Circle Award for top sales performance, CEO GEO Southwest Award, Global Diversity Council awards, Women of Color Technology Star Award, and Toastmasters Communicator.

Mia is also the new Chair for the Siemens Digital Industries Software Siemens Ablity Employee Resource Group/ERG with a recently recognized Neurodiversity program at the University of Cincinnati.

Mia is an Industry Advisory board member at multiple universities including: MAE IAB at UCLA, UC Irvine Alumni Association & UC Irvine MECPS Advisory board,  ARCS OC, University of Cincinnati IDD Center Advisory board, Houston Community College, IDEAS Diversity board UCSD 2023, Concordia University Irvine Engineering, worked with Edge in Tech at UC Berkeley to participate in Leadership Roundtable events on Diversity and founding committee member for the 100 Women Strong at CSULB.

Her passion to give back moved her to write a book to help empower women in STEM.  Now at Siemens she helps colleges, universities, and K-12 schools work with Siemens Xcelerator software to help them get the product, process new technology knowledge they need to succeed.