Meet VL's Director and Brand Ambassadors (2022-2023)
Samantha Steidle - Director of Venture Lab The Venture Lab's Director is Dr. Samantha Steidle. Dr. Steidle has a Bachelor of Accounting from Radford University (Class of 04'). Since 2010, she co-launched six different start-up spaces. Venture Lab is the seventh. Steidle decided to join Radford's Davis College of Business and Economics in 2021 to support the Venture Lab's post-COVID re-launch and the amazing business and social entrepreneurship students across campus. She is now a professor of entrepreneurship in the Department of Management. As a Junior in college at Radford, she started her first business so it's quite fulfilling to support student entrepreneurs and innovations taking similar paths, regardless of whether they intend to be entrepreneurs, employees, or a hybrid of both. Innovation is a powerful tool for all career paths. Bradley Persons - Lead Brand Ambassador Bradley is a senior Finance major who loves ska...