 Lee founded the information-technology and government-contracting company Sytel, serving as its president and CEO from its inception in 1987, originally as Tasque Inc., in Gaithersburg, Maryland.She took no salary for the first four years and financed the company with personal credit-card debt, but grew it to 275 employees and approximately US$40 million in revenue by 2001.She continued in her dual-title role after Sytel was acquired in 2005 by TechTeam Global (later itself acquired by Jacobs Engineering Group).