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Lora Haddock

Founder & CEO
Lora DiCarlo

Lora Haddock DiCarlo founded sex tech company Lora DiCarlo in 2017, and after spending a decade in the healthcare industry she put her obsession with anatomy hard to work. Lora is the inventor of Osè, a first of its kind product that holds 9 patents pending in micro-robotic technology and was a CES 2019 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Robotics category. When the award was redacted, she opened the public conversation about gender bias and inclusion in the tech industry and worked with CTA to update their policies for 2020.

Lora has been listed as one of the top 53 women CEOs disrupting HealthTech by Forbes. To date, Lora has raised $5.2M for the company, including government funding from the State of Oregon, and sits on the board of the Technology Association of Oregon. She and her team slammed out of the gate at the end of 2019 to bring home $3M in presale revenue in their first five weeks of launch.

Lora has been named Executive of the Year by the International Business Awards, and was awarded a silver Stevie as Most Innovative Women of the Year by the Women’s Business Awards, amassing three additional awards from the Stevies last year. This year Lora DiCarlo brought home ten new awards from the Consumer Electronics Show, including two more CES Innovations awards for new products, and was named Best of CES six times over by entities such as Time and Good Housekeeping. She is an internationally sought after speaker and has appeared at events including Forbes’ Global Women’s Summit and the Detroit 30Under30 Summit, SXSW, TechCrunch Disrupt, CES, Tech Open Air, and will be a featured speaker at multiple prominent events throughout 2020.

Lora is driven by a passion for education and inclusivity and hopes to see a society that embraces all types of identities and bodies.

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