Leader Bios
(From Left to right: Will Leadingham, Dan Michaelis, Kevin Mildner, Jennifer Loeppke, and Katie Sharp)
Position: President
Name: William Leadingham
Major: Entrepreneurship and International Business
Year: Senior
Will Leadingham is a senior having a double major in Entrepreneurship and International Business. He has had experience running his own business in 2005. He also went to Thailand this summer and worked at a candle manufacturing and exporting company as an internship. He has also participated in the WSU Business Plan Competition. His father has a vineyard on the west side which has been very interesting to help create and see in progress.
Position: Vice President
Name: Daniel Michaelis
Home Town: Spokane
Major: Entrepreneurship and International Business
Year: Senior
Daniel Michaelis is in his final year at Washington State University and will graduate in 2008 with a double major. His father is an owner of a small business in Spokane and he hopes to take follow in his father’s footsteps and some day start up his own small business. Last summer, Daniel studied abroad in Thailand and obtained an internship at a manufacturing and exporting company, there he gained an interest in the importing and exporting business and hope to follow this interest as a possible career.
Position: Vice President of Operations
Name: Jennifer Loeppke
Home Town: Meridian ID
Major: Entrepreneurship
Year: Senior
Jennifer Loeppke has been at Washington State University for 4 years. She will graduate in May with an Entrepreneurship major and French minor and is currently thinking about taking a job as an associate broker of surplus lines insurance.
Position: Activities Director
Name: Kevin Mildner
Home Town: West Linn, Oregon
Major/Minor: Entrepreneurship/Marketing
Year: Senior
Kevin Mildner will be graduating from Washington State University in the Spring of 2008. He has had strong aspirations all his life to be the owner of his own successful business. The past few summers he has started and ran his own landscaping company in Coeur d’ Alene Idaho where he has learned invaluable lessons regarding the necessary skills needed to be an entrepreneur. After graduation he plans to achieve gainful employment with a respected organization, expand his knowledge in the working world, and eventually start a company of his own.