Kendra Kawala is the COO and co-founder at Maker Wine, a venture-backed, direct-to-consumer canned wine company. Maker has raised funds from some of the best investors in Silicon Valley, business, entertainment, and sports, and is quickly changing the way we experience wine with the highest rated canned wine in the world. A Chicago native, Kawala did her undergraduate at Vanderbilt and MBA at Stanford, where she co-founded a wine-tech company and subsequently put down roots in Marin County, California.