Mary Jesse

Jesse is a native of San Jose, California. Her father spent his entire career working as an electrical engineer on NASA Space Programs at AMES Research Center, and was part of the Pioneer 10 team that received the Nelson P. Jackson Aersopace Award. Her sister, Rose Herrera served on the San Jose City Council for 8 years, and was vice-mayor from 2014 to 2016.

Jesse was a co-founder of AT&T's project Angel where she served as a Vice-President and corporate officer. She also led the first and largest deployment of commercial wireless data in history. Jesse has been Managing Partner of Hexagon Blue LLC since January 2003.

In 1991, Jesse moved to Seattle, Washington to work for McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. Jesse was Vice President of Strategic Technology in 1994 when AT&T acquired McCaw Cellular. Jesse was a corporate officer and Vice President of Technology Development at AT&T Wireless through 1998 when she left AT&T. Since 1998, Jesse has been a co-founder, officer, executive and board member at a variety of private and public technology companies. In addition, she has served on several business and STEM related non-profit board including Northwest Entrepreneurs Network, University of Washington Bothell School of STEM board, Washington State University Electrical Engineering board, City of Bellevue Chamber Board of Directors and Washington Governor's University business council.

In the late 1980s, Jesse moved to Stanford Telecommunications.

Mary Jesse (born November 22, 1964) is an American technology and media executive, entrepreneur, strategist, inventor, professional electrical engineer, author, and wireless pioneer.