Mary Lou Jepsen

By admin , 16 March 2026
Mary
Lou
Jepsen
Female
Description

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child, Jepsen helped shape one of the most recognized nonprofit computing initiatives of its era. She also served as Chief Architect of that organization.

Jepsen founded Openwater, a company working in medical technology and computational imaging, where she became Executive Chairman. Her career included research and executive engineering roles at the MIT Media Lab, Google, Meta (Facebook), and Intel.

Co-founder One Laptop Per Child
Date of Birth
1965
Mary Lou Jepsen
she/her

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