Beng Ee Lim graduated from Purdue in May 2021 at age 20, into a job market emptied out by COVID. Many of his international classmates went home. Beng Ee stayed. With his best friend and fellow Boilermaker Cem Güler, he co-founded Neuster Health, a medical device sterile packaging startup. Together they took on U.S. market entry, built distributor channels, learned FDA compliance from scratch and competed for hospital contracts against industry giants 3M and Steris.

That experience taught them a hard truth: many life-saving medical devices never reach the patients who need them most. They work, but the path to market is slow, costly and confusing. The largest companies can afford to get through it. Most of the world’s manufacturers cannot.

In 2024, Beng Ee, Cem and fellow Purdue graduate Mert Zamir founded Complizen to change that. Their mission is to accelerate medical device innovation, so regulation is never the reason a promising device fails to reach patients. Today, Complizen pairs AI with regulatory experts who bring decades of FDA experience, helping manufacturers around the world move from first strategy to market clearance. As COO, Beng Ee leads international expansion, working with government institutions and industry bodies across Asia and beyond.

Beng Ee credits Purdue for all of it. The tough engineering years taught him how to think, how to work through hard problems and how to keep going when the answer isn’t obvious. Just as important were the people: friends who became co-founders, professors who pushed him, alumni who became investors, and a Boilermaker network of remarkably capable people who opened doors and raised the bar. 

“Purdue showed me that the hardest problems are worth taking on, and that you never take them on alone. To every Boilermaker with a big idea: find your people, and start.”