Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship Staff
The Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship staff is ready to put their experience to work in helping you achieve your own compelling goals. Bring your ideas, your challenges, and your dreams to the Center and let's get started building your opportunity of a lifetime. If we can't help you, we will find someone that can.
Sara Figlow
Sara is the Program Specialist for the Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) and brings expertise in small businesses and non-profits with a focus on fiscal discipline and compliance.
Sara uses her own entrepreneurial background as former co-owner of a commercial/residential contracting and building company to support entrepreneurship efforts on and off-campus. Sara also manages marketing and communication for the CFE. She came to Appalachian from her position as Executive Director of Climate Voices US where she served as the primary spokesperson to the organization’s constituents, media, and the general public.
Sara worked in the accounting department of Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy. She also served on the Board of Directors of High Country Local First.
figlowse@appstate.edu
828.262.8857
Erich Schlenker
As Managing Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Erich helps students and community members develop, incubate and launch new ventures.
Erich brings a range of experience to the position. Most recently, he assisted a start-up international mining company in addressing SEC and regulatory issues, implementing financial controls, securing operating capital, and building relationships with government officials in Guyana South America.
Prior to moving to the High Country in 2008, Erich founded and operated Synaptis, a Raleigh-based software training company. He also brings 11 years of experience at Intel Corporation, where he helped define, launch and implement the Intel Inside Program worldwide.
schlenkere@appstate.edu
828.262.6196