American businesswoman Sandy Lerner helped found Cisco Systems, a company specializing in technology and development. She also

بالمساهمة وتأسيس العديد من المشاريع التجارية الناجحة بين المملكة المتحدة والولايات المتحدة الأمريكية وكان منها تأسيس “Urban Decay“.

Forbes estimated her wealth at around $100 million in 2013.

Lerner was born in 1955 in Oberville, Virginia, and grew up on a farm in northern California. She attended schools in the state and then earned a degree in

البكالوريوس في العلوم السياسية من جامعة كاليفورنيا “شيكو” في عام 1975، وبعد ذلك حازت على درجة الماجستير في الاقتصاد القياسي من كلية

Claremont Graduate School in 1977 and a master’s degree in statistics and computer science from Stanford University in 1981. She later received

honorary doctorates from Washington and Jefferson College and the University of Southampton in England.

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In 1984, Lerner served as director of computer facilities at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She then co-founded Cisco Systems with her husband,

Leonard Bosack. Together, they designed the first router capable of connecting incompatible computer systems and created the protocols S0SCO and S0GSB, which

topped the list of leading computer programs. Lerner served on the company’s board of directors and as vice president of manufacturing. She and her husband then appointed John

Morridge became the company’s CEO in 1988. Lerner was fired from the company in 1990, and her husband resigned in support of her. They sold

their shares in the company for US$170 million.

-شاركت في عام 1995 بتأسيس شركة “Urban Decay LLC” والتي شغلت فيها منصب رئيس مجلس الإدارة للشركة التي غادرتها في عام

2000. In 1995, she bought a large farm in Virginia, which operates sustainably and profitably, producing local meats and organic

natural products. The farm sells its products online and allocates some of its revenue to educating and raising awareness among children.

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Lerner invested some of her profits in shares in Capital and Partners Limited. In 2000, the French luxury goods company Louis

Vuitton acquired the company. She took part in a number of technological and charitable activities. In 1992, she helped restore Chawton House in Hampshire, England,

which opened in 2003 as a center for the study of women’s writing. The Chawton House Library, which Lerner helped restore, contains more than

nine thousand books on women’s literary works, as well as original manuscripts. The library works in partnership with the University of Southampton, which awarded Lerner an honorary

doctorate in recognition of her work.

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Lerner held several positions, including teaching in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and in the Department of Public Administration at the University of

كاليفورنيا بين عام 1979 حتى 1982. وبعد ذلك، أصبحت باحثة مشاركة في جامعة ستانفورد وشركة “Digital Equipment Corp” وعملت

for large computing environments between 1983 and 1985. At the same time, she was Director of Computing Services at Stanford Graduate School of Business

From 1986 to 1987, she served as Director of Computer and Network Services at Schlumberger Systems Laboratory.

Finally, she founded ZKL Systems and Networks and serves as its CEO and chief engineer. She also helped found Sono Luminous, where she is

تأسيسها، وهي مؤسسة جمعية المنتجين والمستهلكين للمنتجات العضوية في فيرجينيا، ورئيسة مجموعة شركات “BGLI“.