WIN, formerly Women’s Investment Network, is an organization of women committed to advancing entrepreneurship in the Greater Philadelphia region. We are leaders and supporters of high growth entrepreneurial businesses, and provide educational, networking and mentoring opportunities to our members.

WIN is pleased to announce the 2008 WIN Fellows: Kathryn Cunningham, Shelby Zitelman, and Julie Price. The 2008 Fellows were formally presented during the WIN Annual Celebration and Iris Newman Award program held Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at the Rittenhouse Hotel in Philadelphia.

Kathryn Cunningham is currently an undergraduate student studying biology at the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2006 she founded Power Up Gambia, a non-profit organization established to provide full time electricity, in the form of solar panels, to the second largest hospital in the Gambia, West Africa. This hospital currently functions with only ten hours of electricity a day. Kathryn hopes that the success of her initiative will spark similar solar projects in developing nations. For more information on her efforts please visit: www.powerupgambia.org.

Shelby Zitelman is an analyst at Emerald Stage2 Ventures, an early stage venture fund that is in affiliation with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania. She joined Stage2 as an intern in February 2007 during her last semester at Wharton, where she majored in management with a specific focus on entrepreneurship and business development. Shelby is pursuing a career in venture capital because of her strong interest in venture investing and start-up consulting.  Through her employment with Stage2, Shelby has begun to acquire the skill sets of an investor in high-growth businesses.  She hopes to leverage this fellowship to grow her network and gain a mentorship that will assist her budding career in the greater Philadelphia area.

Julie Price is a second-year MBA student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, studying Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing.  She is a member of the Wharton Venture Initiation Program, an incubator and educational program helping her to create a family-oriented fitness center that incorporates behavior modification techniques and fun fitness alternatives.  Julie intends to reframe the concept of exercise and guide people into gradually incorporating exercise into their lives.  Her goal is to attract the 70% of the US population that currently do not exercise regularly.  Julie believes a new form of fitness center is essential because overall, standard gyms seem to be failing in their battle against the obesity epidemic.

During their term as a WIN Fellow, each fellow will receive a complimentary two year membership in WIN, admission to WIN events, exposure to investment resources, and mentoring/coaching.