Nearly two decades building world-class teams at KKR.
Sandra Ozola is the founder and managing partner of Ozola Advisory and
a trusted advisor to founders, CEOs and investors navigating growth, complexity, and transformation.
She spent nearly two decades at KKR, one of the world’s leading investment firms, where she rose from the firm’s third HR professional to Partner and Global Head of Human Capital. Sandra partnered closely with KKR’s Founders, Co-CEOs, and leadership teams to design and execute the firm’s global people and organizational strategy through multiple cycles of rapid organic growth and large-scale acquisitions.
Sandra played a central role in scaling KKR’s workforce to more than 4,500 employees across its investment strategies. She built a best-in-class human capital function, embedding performance, accountability, and culture as true value-creation levers. During her tenure, KKR was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Companies to Work For & Invest In.
Prior to KKR, Sandra held HR leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and Swedbank, where she led global teams and implemented innovative people strategies across regions. Originally from Riga, Latvia, she has lived in London and New York for the last 25 years and worked across multiple continents, leading distributed, multicultural teams. Sandra holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Latvia.
With over 30 years of global experience across financial services and investment management, Sandra brings a rare combination of commercial rigor and deep human capital expertise to every engagement.
She currently serves on the Board of the Cancer Research Institute, a pioneering organization advancing cancer immunotherapy.
A former Latvian National Team handball athlete and triathlete, Sandra approaches every engagement with the same disciplined mindset she helps her clients build into the companies they lead.