Jane Chen, Date of Birth

Jane Chen

businessperson

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1978

Profession: entrepreneur

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jane Marie Chen (born December 5, 1978) is the co-founder of Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help the 15 million premature and low birth-weight babies born every year, through a low-cost infant warmer, that gives premature and low-birth-weight infants a better chance at survival.
A premature baby lacks the ability to regulate its own body temperature.
The Embrace Warmer uses a phase change material incorporated into a sleeping bag design to regulate the temperature of these babies, without the need for a constant supply of electricity.
The device is being used in clinic and hospital settings around the world, with India as its primary market (India is home to 40% of the world's low-birth-weight and premature babies).Currently, Chen serves as CEO of Embrace Innovations, which has a mission to design and bring to market healthcare technologies for the developing world, starting with the infant warmer.
The Embrace infant warmer costs about 1% of a traditional incubator, and is estimated to have helped over 300,000 babies to date. Chen served as the first Chief Executive Officer of Embrace, the non-profit arm of the organization, before stepping into the CEO role for Embrace Innovations, the for-profit social enterprise that was spun off in 2012.