Jonathan Rosenberg

Jothy Rosenberg is truly an incorrigible entrepreneur who has founded and led nine startups, two of which had exits over $100 million. His startups were in a variety of areas, most recently cybersecurity. Jothy led Dover through harrowing times, including when the pandemic caused him to transform it into a Department of Defense business. Recently he transitioned to executive chairman and hired a CEO from a major defense contractor.

Prior to his 10-year journey creating and running Dover, Jothy started and ran startups in the supercomputer, internet infrastructure (Webspective sold for $106 million, or 30× ROI), TV broadcast, web browser security (GeoTrust sold for $125 million, or 8× ROI), and Hollywood special effects markets. In the early 1990s, he ran the most profitable division of Borland International as VP and Business Unit Manager of a $300 million profit-and-loss center where he was responsible for four major products servicing 4 million customers.

Jothy created the Can Do Productions TV production company that created three full episodes of a reality TV show called Who Says I Can’t, episodes of which are now on YouTube. Jothy founded and runs The Who Says I Can’t Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity that focuses on restoring the self-esteem of young people who become disabled by getting them the adaptive equipment they need to participate in their desired high-challenge sport.

Jothy has a PhD in computer science from Duke University and a BA in mathematics from Kalamazoo College. He had a five-year appointment teaching computer science at Duke with a joint appointment at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (MCNC), where he was a VP and co-founder. A NASA research project of his at MCNC led him into the entrepreneurial world because he was determined to turn the supercomputer he designed for the Space Shuttle into a new startup in Sunnyvale called MasPar.

Jothy lives with his wife, Carole, and his golden retriever, Harper, in Wayland, Massachusetts.