In 2008, Ms. Enand founded Zapproved, Inc., a cloud-based software provider for corporate legal departments, where she served as Chief Executive Officer until February 2023 following the acquisition of Zapproved by Exterro. Prior to founding Zapproved, she was the Director of Business Development and Marketing at Avnera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer. Ms. Enand has also held sales and marketing positions at IBM and was a program manager in the compiler and architecture group at Intel. Ms. Enand is also a board member of NW Natural and currently serves as an Oregon Business Council Fellow. Ms. Enand has previously served as Chair of Auth0 and Technology Association of Oregon, and as a member of Oregon Growth Board, Oregon Innovation Council, and Oregon Investment Council. She received the 2018 Sam Blackman Award for Civic Engagement, the 2016 Portland Business Journal Entrepreneur of the Year award and the 2010 Portland Business Journal Orchid Award for achievement for women in business. Ms. Enand earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Portland.
Ms. Enand brings to the NW Holdings Board entrepreneurial and executive expertise from her more than a decade of experience founding and leading Zapproved, as well as substantial technological background from years of working in the technology industry. Ms. Enand’s current and previous professional and management experiences in technology, business development, sales, and marketing allow Ms. Enand to provide oversight of, and contribute important insights on, the Company’s strategy and strategic direction, business development, growth and expansion activities, mergers and acquisitions, business diversification, change management, cyber and information security, finance, compliance, human capital management, marketing and sales, customer experience and support, and decarbonization, sustainability and climate change, which strengthens the Board’s collective knowledge, capabilities and experience.