About Box of Chocolates
Why We Exist
Our sole aim is to help leaders, innovators and founders realize the full potential of their vision.
What We Do
We help early stage leaders build the team, capital, infrastructure and experience necessary to get off the ground, choose the right direction, fend off competitors, make mid-course corrections, scale ethically, and operate in good health--for the long term.
How We Do It
At Box of Chocolates, we get to know what our client companies have to work with--intellectual capital, go-to-market expertise, leadership acumen, tech investments, and the like. Through mentoring and creative team exercises, we teach executives and their teams to optimize these assets to create sustained value.
Who We Are
Wendy M. Pfeiffer is the Founder and Managing Director of Box of Chocolates. At Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Nutanix, GoPro and Robert Half, Wendy led executives and teams in large-scale hybrid infrastructure operations, Internet technology development, ML/AI-enabled business process transformation, cybersecurity and corporate governance, and global sales team enablement.
Now retired from her operating career, Wendy focuses on 1-on-1 mentoring of Founders and CEO's, Board Advisory, and Board Director services. Notably, she has served as an Independent Board Director for public, private and non-profit companies including Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS), SADA Systems (NASDAQ:NSIT), the American Gaming Association (501(c)6) and Girls in Tech (501(c)3).
An accomplished motivational speaker and author, Wendy has been recognized as the Fisher Center's World Business Analytics CIO of the Year, Silicon Republic's Tech Titan, The Software Report's Top 25 Software CTO's, Silicon Valley Enterprise CIO of the Year, Chief in Tech's Top 100 Women in Tech, Technology Magazine’s Top 100 Tech Execs, Infrastructure Masons 100, and the National Diversity Council's Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.