Founder | Willamette Technical Fabricators

Alicia Chapman is the founder, owner, and CEO of Willamette Technical Fabricators, a structural metal manufacturing company focused on custom, complex transportation and clean energy infrastructure projects headquartered in Vancouver, WA. She also serves as the Principal Investigator for the company's multiple Department of Energy research grants.

Prior to founding the business in 2020, she led the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center's research and development, worked at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions as a National Science Foundation Research Fellow, and led economic development programs for the US Agency for International Development. She studied economics at the American and George Washington Universities in Washington, DC, public policy at Portland State, and business at Stanford.

Alicia currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Portland Branch, and previously served on the Oregon Transportation Commission. Her company has received many awards including “Manufacturer of the Year” in 2022 and 2026, one of the top 100 fastest growing privately owned businesses in the Portland Metro in 2024, 2025, and 2026, one of the most generous medium-sized corporate philanthropists in the Portland Metro in 2025, and one of the 100 fastest growing companies in Washington in 2026, and Alicia has personally been named an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award winner, a “Woman of Influence,” and “Forty under 40” by the Portland Business Journal.