Meet our team of experienced technologists entirely focused on one goal: helping families make their lives better

Our executive team

ARLENE HARRIS, CEO

Wrethink founder and visionary, Arlene Harris, is a serial entrepreneur of inclusive, accessible technology. As founder of GreatCall, she innovated the well-known Jitterbug cellular service in collaboration with Samsung. She and Jitterbug received many honors including the New York Times' "10 Brilliant Ideas of 2006" and Reader’s Digest "Top 100 Products". She pioneered the first pre-paid cellular phone service, the first cellular safety phone, and several communications activation, billing and customer service systems.

For her decades of technological leadership, she was titled the "First Lady of Wireless", named as a Top 10 Wireless Innovator of all Time, inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame in 2007 and, in 2017, the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame. For more on her work, see Dyna LLC and Wrethinking, a foundation that fosters consumer technology development in San Diego by Wrethinking technology development from a holistic perspective, including primary sponsorship of the Me2B Alliance.

It was Arlene’s own personal experience that seeded the vision for Rosy. When she set out to digitize the history of her own family, armed with a computer, scanner, and video recorder, she found the technology too complicated, temperamental, and unreliable for anyone to really use. Arlene decided that had to change, and the idea for Rosy was brought to life.

MARY DUNNING, COO

Mary has over 25 years’ experience leading technology-based organizations where she headed sales, technology, and operations. She’s worked with start-ups, emerging and mature businesses with revenues over $250 million. Her recent titles include General Manager for Inseego North America, and VP Customer Operations for Qualcomm. Mary was a founding executive at GreatCall, Inc. and President of PdMA Corporation. Mary is an avid gardener, has 2 beautiful Golden Labradors and spends most of her time managing and motivating all of the incredible brains at Wrethink.

ROBERT VAN HEYNINGEN, VP OF SUPPLY CHAIN

Robert has over 30 years of experience in wireless and electronics manufacturing and business development. Prior to joining Wrethink, he provided consulting services at a senior executive level on business models, manufacturing options, and business development. Before that, he was VP of Business Development and Global Account Management at Flextronics, mainly focused on international strategic partners. Robert was also at Qualcomm for many years working at both Corporate level and QCT in a variety of product management and product strategy roles.

Our board

ARLENE HARRIS, CHAIRMAN

Wrethink founder and visionary, Arlene Harris, is a serial entrepreneur of inclusive, accessible technology. As founder of GreatCall, she innovated the well-known Jitterbug cellular service in collaboration with Samsung. She and Jitterbug received many honors including the New York Times' "10 Brilliant Ideas of 2006" and Reader’s Digest "Top 100 Products". She pioneered the first pre-paid cellular phone service, the first cellular safety phone, and several communications activation, billing and customer service systems.

For her decades of technological leadership, she was titled the "First Lady of Wireless", named as a Top 10 Wireless Innovator of all Time, inducted into the Wireless Hall of Fame in 2007 and, in 2017, the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame. For more on her work, see Dyna LLC and Wrethinking, a foundation that fosters consumer technology development in San Diego by Wrethinking technology development from a holistic perspective, including primary sponsorship of the Me2B Alliance.

It was Arlene’s own personal experience that seeded the vision for Rosy. When she set out to digitize the history of her own family, armed with a computer, scanner, and video recorder, she found the technology too complicated, temperamental, and unreliable for anyone to really use. Arlene decided that had to change, and the idea for Rosy was brought to life.

MARTIN COOPER


Martin Cooper is known as the "Father of the Cell Phone", having led the team that invented, produced and demonstrated the first cellular portable phone at Motorola in 1973. He is responsible for driving development of multi-billions of dollars’ worth of wireless global telecommunications value over the past half century. He has won the Prince of Asturias Award, Marconi Prize, the Charles Stark Draper Prize, a Wireless and Consumer Technology Hall of Fame award, and was named a Top 10 Wireless Innovator of All Time, among numerous other awards. He is a respected speaker on technology and innovation, and contributes to public policy in the US and globally. He founded several companies, including smart antenna leader ArrayComm, and co-founded GreatCall and Cellular Business Systems with Arlene Harris. See also Dyna LLC.

Advisors

ROBIN RASKIN

Robin is a thought leader in consumer technology. She was previously Editor of FamilyPC, and PC Magazine, and a columnist for USA Today Online. She is the author of 6 books on family technology, and is a frequent contributor to MSNBC and Fox, as well as running the innovation pavillion at CES. See her in action here.

YOSHI NOGUCHI

Yoshi is President and CEO of InterBusiness Corporation, serves on the board of AuriQ Systems and is an Advisor to Sumitomo Corporation. He is a published author and regular keynote speaker, especially in the areas of IOT, Big Data, and Analytics.

DON NORMAN, PHD

Don is the Director of the Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego. He is also co-founder of the Nielsen Norman group and an honorary Professor at Tongji University (Shanghai) in their College of Design and Innovation. Don serves on boards and as advisor to several companies and organizations where his major emphasis is design strategy: how designers and design thinking can help drive both incremental and radical innovation.

BYUNG K. YI

BK contributes more than 40 years of advanced wireless development experience, satellite system designs, and aerospace communication and computer designs. He was most recently the CTO at InterDigital, where he was responsible for directing the development of advanced wireless and network technologies, research related to robotics, and advanced cyber security systems.

BARRY SANDREW, PHD

Barry is a Harvard neuroscientist turned Hollywood serial entrepreneur, inventor, internationally recognized digital imaging expert, visual effects pioneer and filmmaker. He holds over 33 patents and has 30 years of feature film and TV accomplishments, including productions for all the major Hollywood studios, TV networks, and several cable networks. He is currently focused on emerging new media opportunities including augmented reality and 3D sensor technology.

PHIL MOLYNEUX

Phil spent 28 years at Sony driving the adoption of an extensive family of consumer and professional electronics, ultimately leading the U.S. organization as President and COO. He also served as President of Dyson America and President of Freeman. Phil’s interests include yoga, motorcycles and spending time with his wife and three boys.