Leif Jentoft

Leif Jentoft is a robotics entrepreneur and operator, and co-founder of RightHand Robotics, where he led early customer discovery, solution definition, key accounts, and partner-driven go-to-market from initial pilots through international deployments across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He held a range of roles including Chief Strategy Officer, various go-to-market execution roles, and General Manager for APAC, and raised $100M with his cofounder. He later served as Head of Product and Acting Head of Program at a Series-A autonomous drone company, aligning research, engineering, manufacturing, and field operations around customer-validated milestones and delivery priorities to field a 650-lb quadrotor into commercial agriculture operation. He holds a PhD in robotic manipulation from Harvard's John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science.