Sandy started her business during her military career, and focused on growing an environmental consulting firm providing a variety of services including hazardous materials, geology/hydrogeology, and her specialty, cultural resources management. She received a Master’s Degree in Anthropology from California State University, Fullerton. Once retired from the Army, Sandy grew her company as President and CEO of The Sanberg Group, Inc. to three locations, including Los Angeles, San Diego, and recently Henderson, Nevada. The firm has projects throughout the California region, Arizona, Nevada, Maryland and Minnesota.
The Sanberg Group, Inc. is a small disadvantaged business, service disabled veteran owned small business (SDVOB/DVBE), and woman / disadvantaged business enterprise (WBE/DBE), providing environmental consulting and construction contracting services to federal, state, and local government, and private industry. Her clients include several government agencies including VA, USACE, BLM, DOD, USDA (Forest Service). The Sanberg Group, Inc. manages numerous diverse projects and continues to develop marketing strategies in response to changes in the economy and market.
In addition to The Sanberg Group, Inc., Sandy is the owner of GSJ Utility Supply & Service, a distributor for a variety of construction materials for highway projects, and also mechanical and electrical products in the both private and public sectors. Her clients include the VA Hospitals, VA Veterans Homes, Department of Corrections, and Cal-Trans and several large construction firms. GSJ is also a certified DVBE/SDVOB, WBE, and DBE firm.
As an advocate for the past five years, Sandy has worked to bring awareness of veteran small businesses to corporations and local government agencies and to make veteran small businesses aware of these opportunities and how to do business with corporations and government agencies in the region. She currently serves as a President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Elite SDVOB Network, a national veteran organization, and participates on several counsels or boards, including Metro (MTA) TBAC, Metropolitan Water District (MWD), City of Los Angeles, and SoCal Edison representing the local disabled veteran community in order to develop more DVBE programs and contracting goals within the Los Angeles market space. She often serves on panels, discussions and workshops in support of the veteran and disabled veteran business community. Recently she has been appointed as California Department of Veteran Affairs, (CDVA) Co-Chair for the DVBE Council for state level advocacy. Serving on the CDVA procurement committee, her focus is to establish more city and county DVBE programs within the state for more contracting opportunities. At the national level, she also a member of the Small Business Task Force of the American Legion, Post 1, Washington D.C. in order to keep up with the national legislation involving veterans and disabled veteran businesses that the Legion is advocating. In 2013, The Sanberg Group, Inc. received both the Los Angeles District and the Western Regional SBA Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year, the Wells Fargo Bank Community Impact Award, and the Southern California Edison Supplier Diversity award in recognition of her commitment and service to the veteran and disabled veteran businesses and making a difference.
In addition to involvement in other professional organizations, Sandy has been an active member of the La Habra American Legion Post #267, and has served as the 3rd Vice Commander to help coordinate the post community outreach programs for the city and county. Participating in these organizations helps her to continue her commitment to serve our nation’s military veterans.
Balancing the endless hours of running her business, Sandy finds time to enjoy time with her husband of 27 years and keeping up with her two daughters. A strong believer in giving back, she travels outside the U.S. to teach English as a second language and supports her husband abroad when planning and constructing water wells in developing nations.