Who Are The Most Important Women In Mobile Tech?
November 18th, 2010 by K. T. Bradford 
Despite recent heated discussions about the lack of women in tech, we here at LAPTOP know that there are far more women doing important and influential work in technology than is evident from the lineup at TechCrunch Disrupt or most other tech-related conferences. That’s why we’re putting together a list of the most important women in mobile tech.
What are the marks of importance? Notability is a big one, but also a personal actions/activities that influence mobile tech. This includes women spearheading promising start ups, women involved in research and development of important technologies, even women who work within systems to make them more accessible or friendly to those outside of the majority.
Obviously there are a lot of women who fit these descriptions, and I’m sure you can come up with plenty of other criteria for what makes a woman “important” in mobile tech. So we’re inviting our readers to nominate women for our list. Please leave your suggestions in the comments with links, if you have them, to pertinent information about the women you’re nominating. The two main criteria we have is that they should be involved in mobile technologies, and they should be currently active in tech.
Image Credit: Marta Manso
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November 18th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
These four are pretty obvious, but still:
Mary Lou Jepsen — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen
Limor Fried — http://makezine.com/pub/au/Limor_Fried
Leah Buechley — http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/
Becky Stern — http://sternlab.org/
November 18th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
mary lou from pixel qi – their screens rock!
November 18th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
“No this is not my boyfriend’s computer”.
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–editor’s note: We’ve now reached our maximum limit of sexist comments on this post! Congrats, Chris.
November 18th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
My vowels!!
They’re gone.
Except for “her”.
Thank you.
For The Most Important Women In Mobile Tech, I nominate… Cher Wang, co-founder and Chairperson of HTC and VIA Technologies.
Boom.
http://www.htc.com/www/press/htc-executives.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_Wang
November 19th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Lisa Brewster — Palm. You have to be intelligent and geeky to handle webOS developer relations, but she’s also very human and, yes, one of the prettier women in the smartphone industry.
http://about.me/lisabrewster
December 8th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
So who won?
Noticed you confiscated my last vowel on my Nov 18 comment.
Cold hearted, and you don’t play by rules.
December 8th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
We didn’t choose just one winner. But you’ll get to see all the women who made the list in the next few weeks.
January 17th, 2011 at 12:54 am
How’s it going?
It will be nice when I can read the article.
January 17th, 2011 at 12:15 pm
It’s going in our March issue, so it’ll be online sometime that month (if not sooner).
February 12th, 2011 at 1:00 am
Boom
Jo Harlow is now the Head of Smart Devices (Smartphones) for the world’s largest phone maker.
As of April 1, Nokia will have a new company structure, which features two distinct business units: Smart Devices and Mobile Phones. They will focus on Nokia’s key business areas: high-end smartphones and mass-market mobile phones. Each unit will have profit-and-loss responsibility and end-to-end accountability for the full consumer experience, including product development, product management and product marketing.
Smart Devices will be responsible for building Nokia’s leadership in smartphones and will be led by Jo Harlow. The following sub-units now in Mobile Solutions will move under Smart Devices:
- Symbian Smartphones
- MeeGo Computers
- Strategic Business Operations
To support the planned new partnership with Microsoft, Smart Devices will be responsible for creating a winning Windows Phone portfolio.
http://www.nokia.com/A4254075
http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1488004