Leadership

Leading the way in the new world of enterprise management in the social cloud, Kenandy has assembled an executive team and board of directors comprised of action-oriented, results-driven deep thinkers, all of whom are committed to continual collaboration for ongoing innovation that benefits our customers, partners, investors, and employees.

Executive Team

Sandra L. Kurtzig, Chairman and CEO

Software industry pioneer Sandra Kurtzig founded Kenandy in 2010 with the vision to once again transform the world of enterprise management software. She did this the first time starting in 1972 when she founded ASK Computer Systems and created the groundbreaking MANMAN product family. During her 20-year tenure as founder, chairman, and CEO of the ASK Group, Kurtzig grew the company into one of the 10 largest software companies in the world.

Now, as Chairman and CEO of Kenandy, she is helping to create and drive the new industry paradigm of enterprise management in the social cloud, supporting a growing, global, social community of companies that design, manufacture and distribute products.

Kurtzig has been widely covered in the media and has received numerous business awards. She was the first woman to take a technology company public, and was included on Business Week's list of the top 50 corporate leaders. Her best-selling autobiography, CEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up is published by Harvard Business School Press and is available on Amazon.com.

Since retiring from ASK in 1993, 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.

Kurtzig has a B.S. in mathematics from UCLA and an M.S. in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University.

Rodney Butters, Chief Marketing Officer

Rod Butters brings more than 20 years of executive experience in marketing, strategy, sales, engineering, and product development to his position as Kenandy's chief marketing officer, playing a pivotal role from the outset by driving the launch of the company into the cloud.

Prior to joining Kenandy, Butters was chief marketing officer and vice president of products for RNA Networks, the technology leader in memory and flash virtualization. Before that, he was vice president of marketing for Salesgenie.com, the market leader in sales effectiveness and sales lead development. Previously, Butters held senior executive positions at Tidal Software, Aspect Communications, and Oracle Corporation, where as a vice president, he helped define and drive the applications server market. He also held senior sales, marketing, and engineering positions at Object Design and Mentor Graphics.

Butters has a B.A. and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Oregon.

Peter Stern, Vice President, Sales

Peter Stern brings 14 years of technology sales and leadership experience to his position as Kenandy's Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Kenandy, Stern served as senior vice president of sales at OpSource. Previously, Stern was vice president of enterprise corporate sales at Salesforce.com, where he was responsible for the west coast development and growth of a new direct sales division. Prior to that, Stern worked at Oracle and ultimately managed a North American field sales organization responsible for ISV sales for embedded infrastructure technology.

Stern attended the University of California, Berkeley where he was a two-time All American on the men's NCAA water polo team, a member of the US Men's Senior National Team, and a gold medal winner in the 1997 FINA World Championships.

An active member of the Bay Area community, Stern, together with his family, supports several philanthropic causes including the Wender Wiess Foundation, the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, and the PlumpJack foundation. In December 2010, he was appointed to the Airport Commission of the San Francisco International Airport.

Board of Directors

Sandra L. Kurtzig, Chairman and CEO

See bio in leadership section.

Raymond J. Lane, Managing Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

As a managing partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ray Lane helps entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. He has sponsored several investments for the firm in enterprise and consumer technology, as well as in clean and alternative energy, including Ausra (solar concentrator), GreatPoint Energy (coal to gas conversion), Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid car), Th!nk NA (electric car), Luca Technologies (biologically enhanced gas recovery from fossilized hydrocarbons), Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters), SpikeSource (open source platform for integration and testing), MEVIO (social media network), Vertica Systems (data warehousing solutions), and Elance (marketplace for services). He serves as non-executive chairman of the board of Hewlett-Packard, and also is on the board of Quest Software.

Before joining KPCB, Lane was president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corporation, the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and services company. Lane led Oracle's business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services. During Lane's eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal revenue growth, from approximately $1 billion in 1992 to over $10 billion.

Prior to Oracle, Lane was a senior partner with Booz-Allen & Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz-Allen's board of directors and executive management committee. Previously, he served as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp (EDS), and spent ten years with IBM in various product-management, sales, and marketing positions.

Lane has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from West Virginia University (WVU) and received an honorary Ph.D. from WVU as well as from Golden Gate University. He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU, served as a director of the WVU Foundation Board, and currently serves on the University's Board of Governors. WVU honored him with the naming of the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Lane also serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University and presently serves as its chairman. He is the co-creator of a High Dependability Computing Consortium with Carnegie Mellon and NASA. Lane serves as vice chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the International Board of Special Olympics for several years.