Sarah Ford
President and CEO, Ranch Road Boots
Sarah Ford is the President and CEO of Ranch Road Boots, a footwear brand selling western and military-inspired boots online. Having launched in January of 2012, the brand has evolved from its modest custom boot-making roots in San Angelo, TX, to a ready-to wear collection available at RanchRoadBoots.com and Amazon.com.
Sarah graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999 and Harvard Business School in 2007. She is a former Marine Corps Captain, while on active duty, she won the Colonel Kriendler Award for Leadership Excellence at OCS and the Marine Corps Military Skills Award at The Basic School – the first female in the history of the Marine Corps to earn either award. Sarah served as a Platoon Commander, Operations Staff Officer, and Company Commander in Combat Service Support units and deployed in 2003 and 2004 to Iraq and 2007 to Afghanistan before working as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group.
Sarah currently resides in Twentynine Palms, California with her active duty Marine husband, LtCol Mike “Honcho” Ford, and their daughters, Remington and Pepper.