Sandra Kwak

Sandra’s passion is at the nexus of tech, humanism, art and environmentalism. She is a serial entrepreneur. Growing up in Austin, Texas with musician parents, she was always encouraged to explore her creative side and even petitioned Emory University to create a Visual Arts double major when she studied there. Upon graduation she turned her underground arts group into a formal non-profit, distributing a free arts magazine featuring regional Southeastern artists and began opening photography studios offering the first all-digital photography experience in America. Upon completing her MBA in Sustainable Business at Presidio Graduate School, Sandra dove into Silicon Valley, co-founding Powerzoa, a startup offering commercial buildings hardware and a web-app to save energy. She also served as CEO of a software company producing the world’s first mathematically lossless video codec: SheerVideo (used in Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons). At AutoGrid, Sandra helped scale a start-up providing big data apps for the smart grid from prototype phase through a $14M Series-B round and global partnerships with major utility companies. Her next venture, 10Power is bringing renewable energy to people around the world who lack access to electricity. Sandra serves as VP of Business Development for a user experience company, The UX Department.