Arlene Harris

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.