Judy Estrin

Judy Estrin is the CEO of Packet Design, LLC and Chairman of the Board of Packet Design, Inc. She previously co-founded three technology companies. Bridge Communications, founded in 1981, was a vendor of internetwork routers and bridges that went public in 1985 and merged with 3Com Corp. in 1987; Estrin served as engineering vice president and executive vice president of Bridge, and later ran the Bridge Communications Division at 3Com. Network Computing Devices, a maker of X terminals and PC-UNIX integration software, was founded in 1988 and went public in 1992; Estrin started with NCD as executive vice president and became CEO in 1993. Estrin served as CEO of Precept Software from the company's 1995 founding as a maker of streaming video software. When Cisco Systems acquired Precept in 1998, she became Cisco's chief technology officer until April 2000. Estrin has been named three times to Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in American business. She sits on the boards of directors of The Walt Disney Company and The Federal Express Corporation. She holds a B.S. degree in math and computer science from UCLA, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.