Building Global Prosperity: Innovation and Action - KIN Global
Building Global Prosperity: Innovation and Action - KIN Global
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Judy Estrin<br />
Founder & CEO<br />
JLabs LLC<br />
Author<br />
Closing the <strong>Innovation</strong> Gap<br />
Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet<br />
Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing<br />
the <strong>Innovation</strong> Gap, published in September, 2008. Prior to<br />
co-founding Packet Design, in May 2000, Estrin was chief technology officer for<br />
Cisco Systems.<br />
Beginning in 1981, Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies:<br />
Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, <strong>and</strong> Precept Software. In 1998<br />
Cisco Systems acquired Precept, <strong>and</strong> she became Cisco’s chief technology officer until<br />
April 2000.<br />
Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful<br />
women in American business. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney<br />
Company <strong>and</strong> FedEx Corporation as well as two private company boards — Packet Design,<br />
Inc. <strong>and</strong> Arch Rock. She also sits on the advisory councils of Stanford’s School of<br />
Engineering <strong>and</strong> Stanford’s Bio-X initiative. She holds a B.S. degree in math <strong>and</strong> computer<br />
science from UCLA, <strong>and</strong> an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.<br />
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