OneCal Foundation Directors & Staff

Michael Kieschnick
Board Director

Michael Kieschnick is President and CFO of Working Assets, Inc., a privately-held wireless, long distance and credit card company created in 1985 to help make the world a better place. Revenues are approximately $100 million from provision of telecommunications services to residential customers. He was Chairman of the Board from 1985 to 1991 and currently serves as a board member. He was co-founder in 1983 of Working Assets Management Company.

In 1988, he founded Sand County Ventures, an investment firm, which operated a small investment banking firm, Sand County Securities, and a small municipal bond mutual fund, Muir California Tax Free Bond Fund. He served as President of San County Ventures from until 1991. From 1983 until 1988, he was Vice President of Dimensional Corporate Finance, a venture-capital-backed lender to middle market corporations.

In the early 1980s, he worked for the state of California as Director, Office of Economic Policy, providing economic advice to the governor. Previous to that, he was an economist with the US Environmental Protection Agency, analyzing economic impact of environmental regulation.

Since 2004, he’s been a lecturer at Stanford University, where he teaches an undergraduate course on social entrepreneurship. He taught a graduate seminar on financial innovation at the Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, from 1981 to 1988, and Sunday school at a number of churches over the past two decades.

He currently sits on the boards of Sojourners, Beatitudes Society, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and American Environmental Safety Institute. He’s held board positions at the Tides Foundation and the California League of Conservation Voters.
Mr. Kieschnick has a PhD. and an MPP Public Policy from Harvard University, an MPP in Public Policy from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University.