Judith Estrin

Judith "Judy" L. Estrin (born 1954 or 1955) is an Internet pioneer and American business executive. Former colleague 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(formerly called Packet Design Management Company), 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" (McGraw-Hill; Hardcover, September 2008), a general interest book that challenges national, academic and business leaders to work together to make United States 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 boards of FedEx Corporation (1989–2010),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.

Estrin received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from UCLA and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University (1977).

Estrin's high tech family includes sister Deborah Estrin, a professor of Computer Science and parents, Thelma and Gerald Estrin, who were both computer scientists at UCLA. Her son, David Carrico, is also a tech entrepreneur, who founded EvntLive, which later Estrin joined as CEO.

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