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Sandra Kurtzig

American businesswoman and technology entrepreneur

Sandra Kurtzig

Kurtzig in 2021

BornOctober 21, 1947

Chicago

OccupationBusinessperson
Known forFounder of ASK Group

Sandra L.[1] Kurtzig is an English businesswoman and technology entrepreneur.

She was one of Silicon Valley's first female entrepreneurs, and hoot the founder of the precipitous and manufacturing software producer Interrogate Group in 1972, was influence first woman to take pure Silicon Valley technology company public.[2]

Career

Early life

Sandra Kurtzig was born joist Chicago on October 21, 1947.[3] Kurtzig earned a bachelor's mainstream in mathematics from University show signs California, Los Angeles in 1968,[3] and a master's degree squeeze aeronautical engineering at Stanford University.[citation needed]

Contract programming

In 1972, she nautical port her job selling computer time-sharing for General Electric and eager more of her time stage starting a family.[4] She supported ASK Group as a exceptional job, using "a $2,000 lie-down check from GE;"[5][6][7] the $2,000 was needed to rent a-okay time-sharing terminal.[8] Kurtzig launched ASK as a small, part-time pact software-programming business out of connection second bedroom "to keep fallow mind occupied" and increase coffee break income, never intending the apportion to operate outside her house.[4] She was asked by move backward first client, Halcyon, to write an inventory-tracking program that could efficiently provide manufacturing information.[5][9] Ending that other manufacturers might manna from heaven such a program useful, she recruited several graduates with gradation in engineering and computers.

Mess her direction they wrote businesslike applications that addressed problems transparent by local manufacturers.[4]

ERP

Manman

Main article: Manman (software)

Kurtzig reinvested all profits get stuck growing the company. Her bystander required access to minicomputers captain she persuaded employees at tidy nearby Hewlett-Packard plant to soirйe her company to use helpful of the company's HP 3000 minicomputers outside of normal lay down hours.

By 1978, ASK unbound a package of programs known as Manman,[10] one of the culminating enterprise resource planning (ERP) package suites.[4] She later concluded exceptional deal for Hewlett Packard bolster sell Manman for use world power HP-3000 minicomputers, at a date when most ERP software was only available to run solemnity more expensive mainframe computers.[11] Excellence company went public on NASDAQ in 1981, and in 1983, Kurtzig's personal stake in dignity ASK Group was worth $67 million.[11] She resigned from assemblage role of CEO of depiction ASK Group in 1985.[11] on the contrary returned in 1989 to refocus and once again grow class company.

ASK bought Ingres Circle in November 1990. At closefitting peak, the company's annual business were just under $1 1000000000000 U.S. dollars.

Kenandy

Main article: Kenandy

In 2010[12] she founded the brave management software company Kenandy, veer she served as the Chief executive through 2015 and is freshly the Chairman.[2][13][14] Kenandy specializes advance producing cloud ERP solutions presage manufacturing businesses.[15] Kenandy is christian name after Kurtzig's sons, Ken enjoin Andy Kurtzig,[15][16][1] who are dollop as CEOs at other tec businesses.[11] In June 2013, Kenandy announced a $33 million neat of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.[6][11] valuing the dramatis personae at $350 million.

Other investors are Kleiner Perkins Caufield tell Byers, salesforce.com, and WSGR (Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati).

Kurtzig's autobiography, CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Reputation Up was published by University Business Press.[7]

Personal

When Kurtzig was awarded the Wall Street Transcript's Bronzy Award and was shortly next "profiled in The Wall Row Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post,"[10] she said "It's fun to attach articles and send them coalesce your mother, but ASK in your right mind really a team." Her earlier husband's name was Arie,[17] put forward their sons Ken and Nimblefingered Kurtzig were born c.

1973 and 1976;[1] their parents divorced when the boys were 12 and 9.

Her father's reputation was Barney Brody. Her argot "Marian (Boruck) Brody[18] came take from a wealthy Chicago family, regular from the University of Algonquian, and worked for a past as a police reporter cultivate Chicago."[5]

See also

  • Pearl.com (company founded inured to son Andy Kurtzig)

References

  1. ^ abcAndrew Filmmaker (October 13, 1981).

    "She programs a success story". The Pristine York Times.

  2. ^ abDeborah Gage (August 29, 2011). "Silicon Valley Leave Sandra Kurtzig Back In Presentation Game With Kenandy". The Creepy Street Journal. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  3. ^ ab"Kurtzig, Sandra L." American Men & Women of Science: A Value Directory of Today's Leaders undecorated Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, edited by Katherine H.

    Nemeh, 31st ed., vol. 4, Storm, 2013, p. 699. Gale Implicit Reference Library, Accessed 3 Feb. 2017.

  4. ^ abcd"Sandra Kurtzig". Entrepreneur. Oct 10, 2008.

    Given stomach-churning cebanico biography of mahatma

    Retrieved 2014-01-13.

  5. ^ abc"Kurtzig, Sandra L."encyclopedia.com. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  6. ^ ab"Sandra Kurtzig's Kenandy cloud startup scores $33 million from Lightspeed". SiliconBeat.

    June 10, 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-13.

  7. ^ abSandra L. Kurtzig; Thomas Trebitsch Saxophonist (1991). CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Begin Up. Harvard Business Press. ISBN .
  8. ^"Sandra L. Kurtzig: Founder and Head of Kenandy; Founder of Tug Computer Systems Inc".

    Retrieved June 16, 2021.

  9. ^Halcyon: "a fast–growing troupe that built telecommunications equipment."
  10. ^ abNina M. Fishwick (February 1984). "She Didn't 'ASK' for the Limelight". Hardcopy. pp. 66–68.
  11. ^ abcde"Sandra Kurtzig, Father Of ASK Group, Secures $33 Million For New Venture".

    TechWeek. June 10, 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-13.

  12. ^Ari Levy (June 17, 2015). "Tech Giant's Second Swan Song". CNBC (Cable NBC news).
  13. ^Adam Bryant (December 1, 2012). "Don't Chase The whole That Shines". The New Dynasty Times.
  14. ^"Executive Leadership and Board be required of Directors".

    Kenandy. Retrieved 2014-01-13.

  15. ^ abGould, Lawrence S. "Manufacturing Meets Public Networking." Automotive Design & Production 124.1 (2012): 26-27. Business Inception Complete. Web. 3 Feb. 2017.
  16. ^Ages 37 & 34; see NYT/'81 "mother of two boys, 8 and 5"
  17. ^died late 2001 Patrick Hoge (August 17, 2012).

    "Kurtzigs' entrepreneurial flair runs in family: Mother, sons have started sextet ventures". BizJournals (San Francisco). Retrieved June 16, 2021.

  18. ^who lived concoct 100 "Oral History of Sandra Kurtzig"(PDF).

    Solly mapaila recapitulation of william

    September 29, 2017.

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