Texas A&M San Antonio Foundation

Entrepreneur and businesswoman Janie Martinez Gonzalez founded and built one of the first Latina CEO web development companies in Texas on the advent of World Wide Web / DOTCOM in the early 1990s, Webhead, with vision, grit and technological innovation. 

Today Janie is a well-respected technologist, philanthropist and industry influencer with twenty-five (25) years of professional executive experience. Her company Webhead is a market leader in Web, Business Intelligence and IT Security. She understood early on her success depended primarily on her ability to create opportunities for herself and the company.  A natural observer, Janie learned to identify trends and discerned patterns, styles and results.  Janie’s leadership translates to one who adapts and creates a legacy others may remember.  

She is passionate and committed to propelling individuals and communities in need and a firm believer in higher education and careers in STEAM. Janie supports initiatives designed to propel minorities from low income areas, spur economic opportunities, growth to transform and sustain communities.  Janie is the newest CPS Energy trustee, the first female Hispanic to represent the Southwest quadrant. She also serves on the Boards of the Alamo Community Colleges District Foundation, Southside First Economic Development Council, Greater Chamber of San Antonio, Texas AM San Antonio Foundation and Smithsonian Latino Center. 

In 2019, Janie was featured in John Davidson’s, Women Who Tech Are Dangerous: Portraits and Stories in the Age of #MeToo. Her other achievements have also been profiled in such media as Medium.Com, San Antonio Magazine, Inc., Hispanic Business Magazine, Texas Monthly Biz, Vanidades Magazine, and Rivard Report.  She is recognized nationally and regionally;

Janie is noted as a San Antonio Women’s Hall of Famer, San Antonio Hispanic Innovator,

NAWBO Innovator, and has been earned recognition in E-Myth Achievement,  Compass Bank Latina Business Excellence, LaPrensa Diamond Small Business, Accion Texas Microlender Entrepreneur of the Year and celebrated by the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas.

Janie earned an Associates of Arts from Palo Alto College, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), post graduate work at the University of Incarnate Word, followed by completing her studies from University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate School of Business Community Advancement Program.

She is married to Bill H. Gonzalez, mother to three young adult sons: Willem, Ethan, and Anakin. To add more excitement to her life, she is a mother to a toddler Miss BillyJane and mother-in-law to Briana Miller Gonzalez. Her family also includes three dogs Friday, Diego and Patches.