Judith Estrin

Advisor

Founder and CEO, Packet Design, LLC

Judith Estrin is an extremely accomplished founder and executive of high technology start-ups. WPGVP has invested in the four companies she co-founded and was a lead investor of three of them. She currently is CEO of JLABS, LLC, and the author of Closing the Innovation Gap (McGraw Hill, Sept. 2008). Prior to co-founding Packet Design, in May 2000, Judith was Chief Technology Officer for Cisco Systems. Beginning in 1981, Judith co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices, and Precept Software. In 1998, Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and she became Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer and served in that capacity for three years until April 2000. Judith has been named three times to Fortune Magazine’s list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. She serves on the Boards of Directors of The Walt Disney Company and FedEx Corporation as well as two private companies – Packet Design, Inc. and Arch Rock. She also serves on the advisory councils of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Stanford’s Bio-X initiative. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Judith Estrin