Barbara Sprenger

Cheif Executive Officer, Satellite Centers, Inc.

Back to the Future: The 21st Century Village

Barbara Sprenger is a serial entrepreneur, building an engineering/manufacturing business in the 1980’s and taking it international at a time when this was unusual for small business. 

Sprenger holds a patent on an innovative induction heating system developed at that time to help a particular industry meet Clean Air Act requirements.  She sold the company to an Ohio-based multinational that is still building Mountaingate’s products.  Since the mid-1990’s, she has focused on commercial property investment and green development, working with several new energy-efficient building technologies.

Sprenger, with three partners, recently founded Satellite Centers, Inc. and opened the pilot for small, connected, neighborhood-based professional workspace for telecommuters, home-based businesses, consultants and startups.

Sprenger holds a BA in Economics, Highest Honors, from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Public Policy from the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute and California State University at Monterey Bay.  She has served her community on numerous social service boards and as a twice-elected school district trustee.  She is the mother of four exciting children and four increasingly interesting grandchildren.