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Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship

In Spring 2006, WEP instituted the Wharton Entrepreneurial Intern Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded to students who plan to spend the summer in an entrepreneurial setting and who demonstrate outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement, a commitment to entrepreneurship at Wharton, and a commitment to pursuing an entrepreneurial career.

Students awarded the Fellowship are expected, in the year following their internship, to serve as Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship. As Ambassadors, it is their responsibility to work with WEP staff to promote the entrepreneurial career path to the Wharton student community, and to assist in providing continuity for this program after the summer internships.

The Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship for the 2007-2008 academic year are:

• Craig Isakow (MBA, Class of 2008): at Energy Innovations, a venture-backed, solar energy start-up based at Idealab. » Read Craig's story
 

• Edwin Padlan (MBA, Class of 2008): at LiquidMachines, a venture-backed provider of ERM solutions, based in Waltham, Mass. » Read Edwin's Story
 

• Boris Silver (Undergraduate, Class of 2010): at mBuy, a Wharton Venture Award winner. » Read Boris's Story

You can also learn more about the 2006-2007 Ambassadors of Entrepreneurship below:

• Gregory Friedman (MBA, Class of 2007): at Zillow.com, an early stage company in Seattle that helps residential buyers by providing valuations and data on more than 65 million US homes. » Read Greg's story
 

• Ashish Chordia (MBA, Class of 2007-Wharton West): at Kalinex, a nanotechnology start-up in San Jose developing technology that emulates sense of smell.» Read Ashish's story
 

• Nathaniel Turner (Undergraduate, Class of 2008) at VideoEgg, a San Francisco start-up offering a solution for easy video web publishing.» Read Nat's story