Author’s Biography

Sandy Lerner
Upperville, Virginia, U.S.A

Sandy@xkl.com

Present:

  • Chairman, BGLI Enterprises
  • Chairman and Trustee, Chawton House Library, and the Centre for the Study of Early English Women’s Writing, Chawton, Hampshire
  • Founder and Director, XKL Systems Corporation
  • President and Trustee, Bosack & Kruger Charitable Foundation
  • Director, & Capital Investments, Inc.
  • Publican, Hunter’s Head Tavern, Virginia
  • Founder, Chief Engineer, Sono Luminus
  • Co-Owner, Home Farm Store
  • Founder, Virginia Organic Producers’ and Consumers’ Association, Ltd. (VOPCA)

History

Founder and Chairman, Urban Decay LLC
1995-2000

Founder, cisco Systems, Inc., variously Board Member, VP Manufacturing and Customer Advocacy Groups
1984-1990

Director of Network and Computer Services, Schlumberger Computer Aided Systems Laboratory
1986-1987

Director of Computing Services, Stanford Graduate School of Business 1981-1985


Associate Investigator, Stanford University with Digital Equipment Corp. Research on large, distributed computing environments
1983-1985

Instructor, Stanford University, Computer Science Department Instructor, California State University, Public Administration
1979-1982

Research Associate, Stanford Graduate School of Business Research Associate, Stanford University Medical School Associate Research Scientist, American Institute for Research Research Analyst, Hoover Institution Consultant, Claremont Graduate School, Computer Services
1975-1982

Education

Ph.D. (Hon.)

  • Washington & Jefferson University
  • University of Southhampton, England

M.S.

  • Stanford University (1981) Statistics & Computer Science

M.A.

  • Claremont Graduate School (1977) Government (Econometrics)
  • Claremont Graduate School Fellow
  • California State Fellow

B.A.

California State University, Chico (1975) Political Science

Awards and Achievements

2004

  • Editor, Harnessing and Driving, First English Edition, The Book Arts Conservatory, 2004. by B.v. Achenbach (1922).
  • The Crossing Borders Award, The Feminist Press

2002

  • U.S. Patent Holder, No. US D451,646S

2000

  • Gold Medal, United Animal Nations

1997

  • Inaugural Award, Jane Austen Society, North America
  • Humane Achievement Award, Friends of Animals

1996

  • Distinguished Alumna Award, California State University, Chico
  • Humanitarian of the Year, Progressive Animal Welfare Society
  • International Packaging Association Award (Urban Decay)

1994

  • Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
  • Entrepreneurial Company of the Year (cisco Systems)

1984

  • Founding Member, Stanford Jane Austen Society

1983-1985

  • Research Fellow, Digital Equipment Corporation

1975-1977

  • Graduation with Distinction, California State University, Chico

Professional Associations

Audio Engineering Society, American Livestock Breeds Conservancy, British Rare Breeds Society, Highland Cattle Society (US & UK), Shire Horse Society (US & UK), numerous animal welfare and environmental associations.