Eric Sand’s family has lived on the Monterey Peninsula, Big Sur and the Carmel Valley since the 1870s and members of his family have included Realtors, Mayors, ranchers, painters, writers, publishers and authors here on the Monterey Peninsula.
Eric spent his early years in Carmel, California. As Eric’s father was a career diplomat, the family moved to Washington DC. but also spent many years residing overseas. Eric lived in Taipei, Taiwan and later in Athens, Greece. He and his brothers attended their High School years at the American Academy in Athens.
Eric attended MPC in the mid 1960’s before attending UCLA majoring in Computer Science and later worked as a software engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto before moving back to the Monterey Peninsula and taking a position at the NPS. In 1985 he was appointed as the first Management Information Systems Director at the Monterey County Office of Education.
Eric has always had a particular attraction to the Carmel Valley as both sets of grandparents lived there and he has lived in Los Tulares for 12 years with his wife Patricia. Eric is currently a Realtor in the Carmel Valley Village, working in the building his grandfather Harold O. Sand built as his brokerage in 1946. Eric has also been active with the Monterey History and Art Association since 1985, having held the positions of President and Secretary on the Executive Committee. Eric has been Chair and Co-Chair since 2003 of La Merienda, a MHAA event held the first Saturday every June celebrating Monterey’s birthday.
Eric has five sons, three grandsons and three granddaughters who live nearby. Eric’s passion is keeping the Carmel Valley as close as possible to the magical place he knew as a child roaming the hills and exploring the Carmel River behind his grandfather Donald Hale’s ranch by the Farm Center and preserving the very rich sense of community that people in the Carmel Valley share.
