Jeanne Dietsch

CEO, ActivMedia Robotics

MobileRobots.com

Jeanne Dietsch is a technology market pundit and serial entrepreneur. At age 26 she was chosen product development manager of the Weber Costello company. She was hand-picked at age 29 by Pat McGovern, founder of IDG, to lead a market research start-up. After quadrupling sales and selling that firm, she partnered in a venture that developed award-winning game software. In 1995, she founded ActivMedia Research, the first e-commerce market research firm. Dietsch also co-founded ActivMedia Robotics, aka MobileRobots.com. For the last 10 years, the MobileRobots team has been designing and building the complex systems underlying autonomous programmable robotic bases and control systems. With over 2,000 robots in the field, Dietsch leads one of the most experienced manufacturers of intelligent mobile platforms in the world.