Sandra Kurtzig's house

Sandra Kurtzig is Chairman and CEO of Kenaday, a Redwood City, CA-based software management firm. Entrepreneur Magazine called “the first lady of computers.” Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems out of her apartment in 1972, selling inventory-tracking and business-information software, and turned her tiny startup into one of the 10 largest software companies in the world. ASK was later sold, and she founded Kenaday in 2010.

Kurtzig has been the managing partner of SLK Investment Partners, a private equity investment partnership. She has also been a mentor for and investor in entrepreneurial technology companies and has taught the Business for Engineering class at Stanford University.

She has served on the boards of Harvard Business School, Hoover Institution, Stanford's School of Engineering, Stanford Engineering Strategic Council, UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Management.