Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen

Not just Moonshots - Moon Landings

Named one of the hundred most influential people in the World by Time Magazine - the Time 100.

 

Mary Lou Jepsen is Executive Chairman and Founder of Openwater.health , a hard tech medical tech company developing a platform for non-invasive treatments for cancer, stroke, mental disease, longevity plus brain computer interfaces using novel ultrasound, holographic and infrared optics in unique system architectures.  Even more unique - this entire platform is fully open source and leverages shared data to speed FDA regulatory approvals and device volumes to enable fast descent to sub $500 device cost. 

 

She has invented, brought to production and shipped over 50 hard-tech products in her career from early (and recent) virtual and augmented reality systems to laptops and smartphones, from holography to health wearables.  She has 300+ patents that have spanned a wide range of technologies. 

Previously, Dr. Jepsen served as the Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook and she has also held similar roles at Google and Intel. Dr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT and co-founded the nonprofit organization "One Laptop per Child," for which she served as CTO and architected the $100 laptop - generating billions in revenue for the industry and evolving what came to be the fastest growing consumer electronics category ever recorded.  OLPC most importantly changed access to education in low- and middle-income countries globally. She also serves as a Director on the Board of Lear Corporation, the largest US supplier of automotive parts. 

In addition to the Time 100 she has received numerous awards globally and from professional societies in the fields of optics, advanced display technologies, and electronics.

Jepsen is a frequent keynote speaker and has given two highly viewed TED talks. She's also been featured in top global press publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes and so on.