Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen Dr. Jepsen is CEO and Founder of Openwater, a breakthrough medical technology company. As a prolific inventor and entrepreneur, Dr. Jepsen has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine (“Time 100”), in addition to CNN’s top 10 thinkers in science and technology. She has over 250 patents published or issued to her name. Previously, Dr. Jepsen served as the Executive Director of Engineering at Facebook, Inc., and Head of Display Technologies at Oculus, and she has also held similar roles at Google, Inc., and X (formerly Google[x]). Prior to this, Dr. Jepsen was a professor at MIT and co-founded the nonprofit organization