Judith L. Estrin

Who is Judith L. Estrin?

Judith "Judy" L. Estrin is an Internet pioneer and American business executive. Former colleage, Richard A. Karp credits Estrin as one of the key people in the development of Internet when they worked together with Vint Cerf on the initial TCP-project at Stanford.

She is now CEO of JLabs, a privately held company focused on furthering innovation in business, government and non-profit organizations. Estrin is the author of "Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy", a general interest book that challenges national, academic and business leaders to work together to make USA competitive again. Estrin is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded eight technology companies. She was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000. Estrin served on the FedEx Corporation, Rockwell Automation and Sun Microsystems, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company for fifteen years. She also serves on the advisory boards of Stanford’s School of Engineering and Bio-X interdisciplinary program, and is a member of the University of California President’s Science and Innovation Advisory Board. She also served on the America Compete's Innovation Advisory Board in 2011.