Deborah Theobald

Deborah Theobald – Co-Founder and CEO Deborah has spent 20 years developing and deploying automation solutions to the health care sector across the globe. As the Co-Founder of Vecna, a leader in health care information technology and robotics, Deborah has positively impacted millions of peoples’ lives through innovative new technologies that improve access to and quality of care. Deborah has brought to market QC PathFinder for electronic outbreak surveillance of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) and Patient Self Service Kiosk, Portal and Mobile solutions. Vecna’s Department of Defense-funded BEAR (Battlefield Extraction and Recovery) and the QC Bot Hospital Logistics Robots are among a number of robotic tools and products fulfilling Vecna’s goal of better technology for a better world. In 2009, Deborah established the Vecna Cares Charitable Trust to extend Vecna resources in IP, engineering capacity and programmatic expertise to developing countries and under-served areas. Deborah is actively engaged in forging new community partnerships around the world with the goal of improving quality and access to health care through the establishment of local, point-of-care patient data tools to regional information technology infrastructures. During her tenure as Executive Director of Vecna Cares Deborah has been at the forefront of in-country deployment and training of CliniPAK in Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, Haiti, and the USA. Deborah obtained her SB in Aerospace Engineering from MIT and her Masters with an emphasis in space robotics from the University of Maryland’s Space Systems Lab. Her thesis included a video-based, comparative study of human posture in Earth gravity, an underwater simulated space environment, and in a simulated micro-gravity environment on NASA’s KC-135 micro-gravity simulator, the Vomit Comet. Deborah is a certified SCUBA Diver Instructor and the proud mother of 5 very active children.